So, it’s 5:30 am on the morning of JEWS in the South part deux, and I’m in the process of reevaluating airline preferences. As any jet-setter knows, this is serious stuff, on par with reevaluating your favorite diet soda or foreign news service. First, let me just say, JFK is kicking everybody’s ass in terms [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 27, 2009
Internet Famous?
Famous Andrew doesn’t really exist anymore, but the CurrentTV (btw, where did this come from? Weren’t they just nominated for the DuPont? Did they win? Anybody?) special did inspire me to do something stupid.
I feel like the BIGGEST THING ON THE INTERNET is always a milimeter beyond my reach, but it hasn’t kept me from [...]
February 26, 2009
Gaza: an editor’s note (camels on the b-roll)
*I post this out of love, because even (and often) the most earnest among us are also the most absurd.
I was trolling Facebook as I often do when i came across a friend’s photo album from a recent Gaza mish. I am sharing this in violation of my own rules to make a point about [...]
February 23, 2009
M.I.A. Biggest Loser at the Oscars, scores baby
Check out M.I.A.’s first baby pictures! (Obsessed much?)
February 23, 2009
Look What I did! Sunset Park Snapshots, part deux
Here’s an excerpt from my latest article “Snapshots from Sunset Park” at thebrooklynink.com
Petland Discounts
The line at Petland Discounts stretches halfway to the back of the store, where a glass enclosure the entire length of the back wall advertises a cache of exotic birds.
Just behind the glass, a huge African gray parrot preens atop a $1,200 [...]
February 16, 2009
Brooklyn’s Geriatric Valentine
In a day and age when marriage seems outmoded (one look at www.eightmaps.com ought to give you a sense of how few people believe in the institution anymore—and how many are cynical enough to want to keep others out) New York Magazine’s Q&A from Marty Markowitz’s Valentine’s Day Ball is enough to make even the [...]
February 16, 2009
Straight from M.I.A.’s MySpace Blog
T O F A N S F R I E N D S O N F A M I L Y . M Y B A B Y I S H E R E
HAPPY VALENTINES!
SUNDAY NITE I CA M E HOME FROM THE GRAMMY’S STILL IN THE MOOD TO PARTY , I COUDA EASILY GONE [...]
February 14, 2009
Michael Hoyt, my awesome adjunct, on the Daily Show
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c
Bill O’Reilly’s Right to Privacy
Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin
Funny Political News
Joke of the Day
February 13, 2009
Terrorist, moi? Why the Maya Arulpragasam LTTE-drama is NYT Tiger-shit
The fact that it takes an emphatically pregnant young rapper who samples Bollywood and AK47s, writes songs about Bird Flu and does Day-Glo animal-print schizophrenia as an ethos rapping with Jay-Z on her due date to make us stand up and take notice of a conflict an order of magnitude more deadly than the one in Gaza should say something about us, not her.
February 9, 2009
Add Hollywood to L.A.’s new Eastside
UPDATE: Los Angeles Magazine in on the Eastside
Kevin The Ubiquitous of LAObserved keeps GPS-impaired readers on the alert as the Los Angeles establishment silently acquiesces to what was basically a copy-error at the LA Times (committed, no doubt, by one of the legion of dedicated 20-something reporters that now own that newsroom)*
But perhaps the MOST [...]
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