February 2010
23 posts
Fake Steve Jobs
And what about these people who show up wearing outfits that are basically pajamas? Al Gore does that and it drives me crazy. The other day he flew with me to LA. He shows up in a velour track suit and some L.L. Bean slippers, with one of those U-shaped neck pillows and a bag of snacks and a pair of Bose QC-15 headphones in a special case and this huge bottle of water, like maybe he’s going to the...
January 2010
25 posts
By now, many of them have moved on to new, edgier... →
Obama has been exactly the kind of President I expected him to be (and the kind of President I hoped he would be), namely rational, pragmatic, thoughtful, and even-tempered. But clearly many voters—even, oddly enough, some of those who didn’t vote for him—expected a miracle worker. When they got a problem-solver instead, one with little authority over Congressional Democrats and no authority at...
frangry:
Holy mother fucking shit Heidi Montag has turned herself into a monster. She is only 23 years old people.TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD.
Heidi Montag, ladies and gents. Step right ‘round.
14 months Female Not stated PT CRAWLED UNDER THE BED OF A HOTEL ROOM AND CAME OUT WITH A VIBRATOR IN MOUTH POSSIBLE STD EXPOSURE.
Prince at the Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show. Dolphin Stadium, Feb. 4, 2007. I do not know which to prefer, the squalling inflections of the “All Along the Watchtower” cover or the rolling innuendos of “Proud Mary.” But I am sure that the serendipitous finale amounted to a sublime argument for old-time big-tent network television as the Caribbean drizzle fell from the clouds...
Haiti is about the size of Maryland and a big chunk of the population lives in or near Port-Au-Prince, maybe a third of the total, depending on what you count as a suburb. So the collapse of Port-Au-Prince is a big, big deal for the country as a whole. It’s a dominant city for Haiti. Plus Jacmel seems to be leveled. From the reports I have seen, my tentative conclusion is that the...
Reid said: “I have no regret over calling Greenspan a political hack. Because he...
– saving paper: The NYT Mag profile of Harry Reid is a MUST READ. (via hellonewworld)
Male Chromosome May Evolve Fastest →
Boo-yah!
I'm not really digging the new Vampire Weekend,... →
Open Letter from Conan →
Even though the percentage of American adults who smoke has stalled at about 20%...
– TheAwl
This tell-all on John Edwards is insane →