Category Archives: animal savagery
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would … Continue reading
Ending Your Days Of Bachelor Loneliness With A Wild Husband
10:28 AM thiago: dude i need a BF 10:29 AM hooking up casually is exhausting haha me: it is why do you say that? 10:30 AM what happened? thiago: haha emotionally exhausting that is 10:31 AM nothing happened, im just … Continue reading
If You Watch This On The Internet, Pay Us.
Some of my favorite people from the Office, talking about the Writer’s Guild Strike. I watch the show on the internet, for the record. via Fishbowl LA
I had this dream where Britney was in Congress and the media was forced to cover what they really do in there
9:33 PM Laura: greetings 9:34 PM me: hi i’m reading the news Laura: how are you? me: meh Laura: meh is right me: I’m grouchy too much to do, not enough time Laura: I know that feeling. makes me cranky … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, apocalypse, media
I kind of want to turn my face into a mask that never moves.
Setting: Jetblue flight from Long Beach, CA to JFK Airport, aisle 10. I’m seated in the middle, next to a beautiful 23-year-old woman from Los Angeles with perfect skin, discussing skin. Me: I was celebrating my birthday with friends from … Continue reading
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Americans Giving Up Friends, Sex, In Order To Be Online
This is just not okay. From Reuters: The poll, released on Wednesday, found the use of cell phones and the Internet were becoming more and more an essential part of life with 48 percent of respondents agreeing they felt something … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, apocalypse, blogs, what is wrong with us
Grand Theft Book Review
We’ll start on a high note. This is a Booklist review of my friend Sabina Murray’s new novel, Forgery. Booklist, I should point out, is famously hard to impress. (Starred Review) Forgery. Murray, Sabina (author). June 2007. 272p. Grove, hardcover, … Continue reading
