Did You Get The Knack?
Sean MurphyLook at that guy. You know which one I'm talking about. You've got three surfer dude boys in the band and the frontman with the thousand yard smirk. You know that…
Charles Krauthammer is an Immoral Cretin
First, let's try to get a handle on what constitutes the GOP braintrust as it's currently constructed. In short, it's sort of like the Three Stooges. No really. First, you…
She’s Got Her Whole World In Her Hand
Sarah Palin has officially out-cliched cliche. You can no longer even use the lazy --if entirely accurate and appropriate-- depictions like "jumped the shark" or "stranger than fiction" or "a…
For J.D. Salinger, Jethro Tull and Me
She nodded. "Make it extraordinarily squalid and moving," she suggested. "Are you at all acquainted with squalor?" I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it,…
A Combination of Santa Claus, Superman and Peter Pan
When I was growing up, Larry Bird was by far my favorite athlete. His capacity for heroics, it often seemed, was limitless. I've celebrated that love affair here and here.…
Why Dogs Rule, Redux
From Sigourney Weaver's "What You've Learned" feature in December's Esquire: I volunteered to serve food to the workers at Ground Zero after 9/11. There were dogs trained to find living…
I’m In Love!
I'm in love! No, not really. But I am in love with this movie (Sunshine Cleaning), the writer (Megan Holley) and especially the two leading ladies, Amy Adams and Emily…
This Was The Life*
When I first took this job I got in the habit of referring to the time—admittedly too long—spent in the service industry as the bad old days. It wasn’t because…
The Hope of Audacity
Question: How many GOP staffers are looking for new jobs after agreeing to let the cameras roll during Obama's smackdown at the Republican Retreat Q&A today? (Answer: hopefully, none; if…
Top 50 Albums of the Decade, Part Five
10. The Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea (2006) It's a funny thing: as decidedly out there as this effort obviously is, compared to the album that preceded it, Bitter Tea is practically conventional. Well,…