The YouTube 2008 Review
Sean MurphyWe can all agree that 2008 wasn't such a great year. But Obama did win. And YouTube is going strong. Where we would be without YouTube? After considerable deliberation…
The body of Christ is recession-proof!
"It doesn’t crumb, and I don’t like fragments of our Lord scattering all over the floor." THE REV. BOB DIETEL, about communion wafers manufactured by the Cavenaugh Company in…
The Money Dread, Redux
Huge props to Slate's Stephen Metcalf for nailing the empty enigma that is Tom Cruise as well as the enigmatic emptiness of the '80s, all in one piece, here. It…
What’s next? Ozzy was really just snorting baking powder?
From Rolling Stone, an update on the infamous M&M story here: We finally have proof of the mother of all insane tour rider demands, Van Halen’s request for “No Brown…
Songs of the Day: 2:30-3:30 PM, EST, circa 1975
First off, if we can all agree that the Internet is the greatest thing ever invented, we can certainly acknowledge that YouTube is one of the best things the Internet…
Song of the Day: The Black Keys
More on this, later. But to end any sense of suspense: The Black Keys made far and away the best album of the past year, Attack and Release. Put…
What Would Larry David Do?
mwine122: fucktacular. my cellphone just fell in the toilet. mwine122: I am displeased. bullmurph: omg. the ultimate nightmare mwine122: I'm gonna lose all my numbers. I'm sure of it. bullmurph:…
Work Pig: Bringing Home the Bacon
Enough good things really can't be said about Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson, also known as The Kids in the Hall. I celebrated…
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life…
Roger Cohen, again. One needs to be either peculiarly observant or exceedingly self-absorbed to behold, in another's writing, traces of one's own. But for the second time in one…
William Dowd, RIP–and some thoughts about the harpsichord
A life well spent? That's the goal, isn't it? For any of us. Not necessarily to be enshrined in a newspaper's obituary (although few people would protest such a proposition),…