Baltimore’s Drunk-And-Armed Police Rule Questioned
Author: Alan Vanneman
Who is more irritating, Steve Martin or 92Y? Also, Elaine is dead, Elaine’s is not
Last week I ran a piece highlighting Steve Martin’s so-bad-the-Y-gave-everyone-their-money-back appearance at the 92nd Street Y on Nov. 29. Even though Stevo generally came across as a pretentious old fart (he’s almost as old as I am, after all), I noted that Steve managed to end the conversation with a winner: “As for the Y’s…
El Stevo—even when he isn’t funny, he’s funny, sort of
I have, somewhere or other on the web, remarked that Steve Martin often is not funny these days. He takes himself too seriously, and resents having to appease the many-headed with, you know, humor. But Steve still can be funny, with David Letterman, for example. Hanging with Dave, who is, of course, as self-pitying and…
Motor Trend goes wild!
Over at Motor Trend, apparently a haven for latte-sippin’ tree huggers these days, a dude named Tom Lassa delivers a stunningly well-informed and downright high-larious beat-down to Rush “Fat Ass” Limbaugh and provides a few well-directed bitch-slaps to George “Prissy Bitch” Will along the way, all on the unlikely subject of that modern marvel, the…
Jason Moran plays “Thelonious,” 2009
Posted by “Whole Music Club”.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: Kicking Ass, And You Don’t Even Know They Exist!
Admit it, you don’t, but, according to Jeff Stein’s “Spy Talk” in the Wash Post “Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned…
Matt Yglesias is a girl
Yeah, I didn’t know either, but he totally is. He wants us to have a king so we can have royal weddings and look at pictures of chicks in big hats and guys in gray vests. Hey, Matilda! Move to Monaco! Now!
New at Bright Lights: Monsieur Verdoux
My take on Charlie Chaplin’s “controversial” and not very good film about a foppish wife murderer is up at the 70th issue of the Bright Lights Film Journal here. The full issue, NSFW as always, is here.
“Fly”—Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, & Jeff Ballard
Sax, bass, and drums, respectively. Posted by “hibla.com,” who I guess is a cat named Joseph O’Kelly, currently a resident of London UK.
Megan McArdle can’t read. And she’s stupid.
A dude named Eric McGhee who runs a blog called “The Monkey Cage” is running a piece called “Did Controversial Roll Call Votes Doom the Democrats?” McGhee analyses the impact of votes on four “controversial” bills—health care reform, the economic stimulus, cap and trade, and TARP*—on the fortunes of congressional Democrats in the recent election….