December 2008
53 posts
“…is a massively old model based on the 1950s. As media has proliferated,...”
– BRILLIANT.
“Nearly a month ago, the University of Wisconsin’s Badger Herald gave a rave to...”
– Maybe so. But if folks in Madison, Wis., were looking for a movie last weekend, they would have had more luck with the 2:45 matinee of “Bolt.”’ Ain’t that the freakin’ truth! Welcome to Erie, PA.
“How we seem to love and hate those men and women we never knew. What we would...”
– Lord knows I wonder this all the time: HOW ON EARTH did my mother do it? A freshly cooked dinner every night, bath & bedtime, home-made outfits, pigtails with matching ribbons… MYSTERY.
“Mr. Obama’s choice for energy secretary, Steven Chu, told a group in Washington...”
– “but the American consumer would rather have a granite countertop.”
MAKING LUNCH PLANS
NANCY: Is 12:30 doable? We begin to ship Tuesday eve, the earlier I return, the better. (fyi, January 6th is the day of the epiphany. A Greek Orthodox priest throws the cross into the East River and crazy, young Greek guys jump in to retrieve it.)
ME: Wait, so I should meet you at the river instead, where the crazy, young, wet Greek guys will be? Because I could do that, Nancy. I could.
“Last night I sat through too much but not all of a movie called Then She Found...”
– I swear, I love these people.
“Opposition to gay marriage has no logical foundation in a civil society that is...”
– EVERYTHING I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT RICK WARREN
“You’re Likable Enough, Gay People.”
– You can’t blame V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an early Obama booster, for feeling as if he’d been slapped in the face. “I’m all for Rick Warren being at the table,” he told The Times, but “we’re talking about putting someone up front and center at what...
“Insofar as there is a lesson in history,” said James Grant, “it’s that human...”
– As we await a better 2009 we ask: Are we doomed forever to be the fleeced or is there anything we can learn form this latest round of financial catastrophe? In fact, there are plenty of lessons to be learned. So here’s a revolutionary idea: Maybe it’s time we even start thinking about ways to teach...
“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or...”
– Caroline Kennedy’s adoption of the Sarah Palin handbook continues apace. This weekend the would-be senator gave interviews to NY1 and the Times, in which she refused to answer questions with any degree of detail and, in the latter, made clear her disdain for the ‘media elite,’...
“When your sister has invented a split personality just so she can wear a...”
– Whatever Solange Wears, Do the Opposite.
“With regard to Warren, many progressives and gays are denouncing Obama for...”
– And when Obama brings in someone so attached to this current ugliness as Warren to give a speech at his Presidential Ceremony, that’s an unusually cruel and timely reminder to the gay community that the Democratic Party will not push for their “equal rights;” for Obama to claim otherwise at this...
“Long-term thinking became a thing of the past. They had to cut back here and...”
– The thing is, it was the middle-level people who actually knew and essentially ran the businesses.
“On Thursday, after a short session over plates of chicken, collard greens,...”
– Ms. Kennedy repaid the compliment, calling their tête-à-tête “fantastic.” MIND BOGGLES.
“So began a pleasant interlude involving large dollops of caviar and free-flowing...”
– Still, facts are facts. Pan Am, which had been a leading U.S. international airline since the 1930s, collapsed in 1991. Like other great U.S. companies, it died in the marketplace because it blundered. Churn — of people and businesses — has always defined America. Nobody subsidized U.S. Steel or the...
“Housing Crisis Vindicates Guy Who Still Lives With Parents”
– “It’s like I’ve been telling my buddies for eight to 12 years now: ‘Why get in over your head before you’re ready?’”
“can sag afford to be the nail in the coffin while being so close to being the...”
– your colleague, jason alexander
“These philanthropies/ foundations that he basically destroyed funded some really...”
– Eff Madoff.
Bizarre Convo w/ One Ex-Boyfriend, Now Friend
MISS: What do you mean, “We’ve never even had a fight”? Are you crazy?
MR: What are YOU talking about? I don’t think we ever have.
MISS: I’m serious — are you KIDDING me?? I feel like I KNOW we have had fights. Example a) we broke up. Example b) other times. I mean, not often, but we have definitely fought.
MR: I think those fights were all in your head. I seriously...
“At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An...”
– … 31 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthxbai.
“F**k him,” Blagjoveich says of Obama during a lengthy call with top aides and...”
– In another section of the complaint, Blagojevich expresses exasperation that Obama and his team aren’t willing to offer him an inducement in exchange for appointing an aide, apparently Valerie Jarrett, to the Senate.
“At the 56 minute mark, Chuck and Blair find themselves in a clinch with no...”
– He is wearing a sage-green suit with contrast piping and a snakeskin-patterned bow tie.
“Everything sort of looks the same, but everything has changed.’”
– There is a kind of emotional contagion afoot.”
“Fortunately, jobs for women can be created by concentrating on professions that...”
– human capital.
“The lights come back on and Brady points out that Purple Amy’s hands are...”
– David Braun, I will love you for so many things, but right now, this wrong, wrong, wrong hilarity is totally topping my list. Over, and over, and over.
“I remember when G.M. shut down 11 plants, some of which were in the Great Lakes...”
– But do you know what happened at the upper echelon of G.M.? They got six-figure bonuses at the end of the year. It’s really hard to feel sorry for a company that’s lived so high on the hog.”
Watch“… Latina wedding planner with an enormous can” might be the quote of ‘08. Best show of the year from this crew, hands down.
“Well, you know how it is. You get busy, and you won’t have time to drink...”
– Mother, with a “hostessing dilemma” about 30 minutes before… her CHURCH PARTY. Lord help us.
“The only things viewers wanted to know from the First Lady were (a) what...”
– If we really want to know about Afghanistan, is Laura Bush the first name that springs to mind?
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” is the heart of the problem. It...”
– The Times should buy Twitter
