Archives for December 2015
‘For a movement that famously proclaimed there was no future, punk rock has had a remarkably durable half-life’
Eugenia Williamson writes: In a post called “Miley Cyrus Is Punk as Fuck,” no less than the punk editor of Noisey, Vice Media’s music site, declared the millionaire exhibitionist ingénue [Read more...]
‘The ‘Christmas single’ phenomenon is unknown in the U.S., unless you’ve ever watched ‘Love, Actually’
This morning over coffee, Arnie was reading out the annual royalties of various British "Christmas … [Read more...]
‘He’s in a wheelchair!!’ Time to watch our annual Christmas movie!
Derb on Godwin’s Law, Hitler and Trump
John Derbyshire writes: The politicization of the Academy was a key part of Hitler’s … [Read more...]
Giuliani talks to Mark Steyn about 9/11 — and those who celebrated (VIDEO)
Black Santa: ‘I got pitbulls and a rickshaw’
The big question is: Has Tina Fey had work done?
Because I almost didn't recognize her in the trailer for her new movie. Fey is guest programmer tonight on TCM, and one of her picks is the first movie ever made about the internet, 1957's Desk Set. … [Read more...]
‘Now 71, Scruton has been the bête noire of British left intellectuals for more than 30 years…’
One freedom Scruton has long been associated with is the freedom to hunt foxes with hounds; he had been riding out with the hunt earlier that day, following a trail laid by a man rather than a fox to comply with the hunting ban. He has five horses on his Wiltshire farm, where he has reinvented … [Read more...]
14 Behind-the-scenes Secrets of TSA Agents
TSOs undergo regular training and performance reviews where they're expected to simulate a screening in a private room for supervisors. After two years, the probationary period is over, and employees are generally set. “They’d call it being a ‘made’ man or woman,” Harrington says, referring to the … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: When dads breastfeed their kids
Jim Goad writes: Trevor is not the only person on Earth to make a brave transition from a person with a vagina to a person with a vagina and a goatee. But Trevor is unique in Trevor’s … [Read more...]
Blogging will resume at some point…
I'm really busy today, so please enjoy this slightly early "Indian Head" test pattern and some (holiday) tuneage. NOTE: The Big Enchilada's (anti-)Christmas music may not be for everyone! [Read more...]