Bringing Girls Gone Wild Back to Civilization
You can count on the Onion for something blogworthy on this rainy Friday night, when we’re all staying in, and Sam is here for pizza. “In what wildlifestyle reformation volunteers are calling a “positive step,” the first group of rehabilitated Girls Gone Wild were released back into the civilized world […]
Fondling Lighters in the Shapes of London’s Phallic Landmarks
Dennis Lim writes about the new but familiarly-titled movie in the Village Voice. “At one point in Basic Instinct 2, Sharon Stone’s castrating nympho-bitch is diagnosed as a “masked psychotic”—a sneaky acknowledgment, perhaps, that the real subject of this sadly anticlimactic sequel is not sexual warfare or the pleasure principle […]
Vannah Calls, the Big Gala Approaches
More media today: got an early call from Tom Vannah, he said the story that the Advocate published about the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan would be linked up on their website. Tom is a bundle of energy, They just began publishing two new glossy magazines, PreviewCT and PreviewMA, and GoNOMAD […]
You Call THAT Coffee?
MSNBC explains why airline coffee is often really bad, and what to do about it. “It’s all in the H2O. Many people believe that bad coffee comes from bad water, and they might be right. It is certainly true that airplane water doesn’t taste all that great. It is, after […]
Going Around the World with Arthur and Barney
Where does the day go? That must be what other business owners say to themselves, as the day winds down and you look at the clock to see it’s after five. I often wrestle with five, that’s when we close, because nobody seems to want coffee between 5-6. So we […]
All You Need to Know about Tom DeLay
Joe Conason writes in the NY Observer: The two individuals most responsible for the end of his political career are Senator John McCain, whose committee hearings on Indian gaming drew attention to the Abramoff scandal; and Emily Miller, the press flack who squealed on Mr. Scanlon to the Justice Department […]
France Just Doesn’t Get it—Firing is OK!
Today’s Republican included this column by William F. Buckley about the strikers in France. Like the author, I have been amazed by the naivete and belief that laws allowing employers to fire people are such a sore subject in France. Buckley first states the problem: more than 30% of the […]
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Plenty!
An ad agency for GM had a cool idea: let the public create a video ad for the Chevy Tahoe SUV. David Utter of Web Pro News asked: “What could possibly go wrong?” “How about a slew of global warming complaints and viscious anti-SUV spots, quickly becoming viral videos and […]