Yep. Welcome to my world... Editing a festival review of an Irish-themed musical festival with the sentence, “On the main stage, Hootie & the Blowfish—the very name of which evokes a sudden desire to … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
‘Producer Brian True-May suspended after admitting he deliberately keeps ethnic minority characters out of the show’
Wow. Just... wow... In the Radio Times, he described Midsomer Murders as the ‘last bastion of Englishness’ which relied on an ‘English genteel … [Read more...]
That ‘world penis size map’ is a joke
There is no way the average Canadian penis size is larger than the average American's. America has more black guys AND more Mexicans (and the map's saying Mexican guys are well hung, which is news to me. And … [Read more...]
Russ Meyer bio-pix in works (again) — George Clooney for the lead?
That casting suggestion comes via Alexander of Hollywood, who used to party/live with the remnants of the Meyer ensemble in L.A. I think [Read more...]
An inconvenient loot: black libertarian ponders the Japanese
Larry Elder writes: San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s became one of the most impoverished areas in California. Public policy professors James Q. Wilson and … [Read more...]
Todaze ‘Science = Bullsh*t’
DailyMail: Whoops! Scientists left red-faced as oldest 'evidence of life' turns out to be iron deposit [Read more...]
Yann Martel has got to be Canada’s biggest b*tthole
Anyway, Rick McGinnis doesn't quite say that here -- but, then again, he doesn't have to: It’s tempting to make fun of Martel’s epistolary project, which came closest to self-parody early last year, in … [Read more...]
Limbaugh prefers Elmer Fudd over Obama — Talk Radio Watch recap March 14-18
(LATE AFTERNOON UPDATE: bonus Friday fun -- scroll down for the original Loveline "waffle crapper" call... "They later made coffee pots...") My NEW Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio … [Read more...]
‘The 20 Things White People Smell Like’
‘Was Monopoly originally meant to teach people about the evils of capitalism?’
Straight Dope explains: The other novelty [of the revised prototype] was Monopoly, which at this point applied only to railroads: if you owned … [Read more...]
Pin Up Wars: the Pre-Dawn Strike! (scroll down for MY updates)
Saturday a.m. UPDATE from a surprising source: Turns out, Alexandra "there are too many … [Read more...]
Rule #34 is a lie (UPDATED)
Rule #34 of the Internet states: "If it exists, there is porn of it." That's crap. I know, because I have the ONE thing there is no fetish about/for/of, and that is cellulite. There is this one chunk in … [Read more...]