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the way things work
Pigs, Pinkos Fail to Unite For Love
The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago was a hellish haze of violent street battles between self-righteous Commie bastards and self-righteous violent pigs. Forty-one years later, both groups are still self-righteous! More »
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Comment by gawkimo: "Everybody who got hit during the convention may not have deserved it, but 95 percent of them did." He probably felt... more » | Other threads
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old people
Everyone On the Supreme Court Shortlist Is So Old
Chuck Todd has a list of the six people most likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court by Obama. One of them is a dude! And all of them are old! More »
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By PareeneComment by Astigmatism: He's missing an opportunity if he doesn't put Kathleen Sullivan up there. She's a brilliant thinker, simultaneously engaging to... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
TV Guide Provokes Cry of 'Criminy'
In your finally Friday media column: TV Guide wants ads on its cover, Journalism students wake up, Twitter has awards, and old folks will soon be (more) confused: More »
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recaps
The Hills: Murdering Old People
The Hills is about young people. It's about early twentysomethings melting around Los Angeles, sipping clear cocktails and smushing into each other over and over again, like listless boats in a marina. So it's always seriously jarring when someone over the age of 30 pops up, like Heidi's sad, forever lost mother. Or, briefly, bromancer Brody's gin-soaked old lady. And, most unsettlingly, Spencer and Spencerina's grandmoms, who teetered past the screen like an old person at a movie theater last night. It was sad and weird and I'll get to it in a moment. First, though, let's dispatch with the other gloopy matter. More »
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Comment by ZiggyStardust: No giving up, sir. We already have to deal with losing Sheila-- I'm not handling that well as it is. 23 Responses | Other threads
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james brady
Allow James Brady To Tell You About His Illustrious Career
Name-dropping old man James Brady is just about the oldest old man in all the working media. He's turning 80 on Saturday, so he decided to dedicate his Forbes column to that most interesting of topics: his own career. This is a slight departure from his usual practice of reciting as many names as he can in 800 words and being shocked about this modern age. Brady's learned a mess of things in his long, long media career; but "modesty" was not one of them: More »
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Comment by braak: Oh, man. Did he really say that he can't read his own novel without sobbing at the end? 1 Responses | Other threads
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the olds
Brit Hume Getting Too Old For This
Brit Hume is exhausted. The flinty Fox anchor has always seemed short-fused and quietly seething (right?) but covering campaign '08 has drained all the joy out of his life. (As have the tensions in his marriage and his fling with Megyn Kendall?) A profile by useless Washington Post media something Howard Kurtz finds the original face of Fair and Balanced Fox openly disgusted with the empty gimmicks of the Republican National Convention: "Baby pictures of John McCain? What in the world are they doing? Oh, this is just atrocious." And: "I'm 65, for God's sake. I don't want to do all that stuff anymore." And "It's dispiriting. This is just partisan poison, and after a while you get tired of covering it." Jesus, he sounds like us. Remember when Fox was the terrifying propaganda organ of a far-right cult of personality? Now it's just the sad official network of embittered, impotent, cranky old white men. (In the event of a McCain victory, of course, it will become both.) [WP]
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By PareeneComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: also a low point for me was at the open of the Dems' convention when either Mathews or Olbermann threw... 5 Responses | Other threads
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bastards of young
The Internet Says Drop Out of School!
The internet is full of scorn and advice for The Youngs, today. Everyone is so concerned! It's sweet. As we mentioned, Doree explores the topic of foolish Ivy League entitlement at some length in The Observer. Young-on-young violence! Meanwhile some of us are forced into oppressive internshps. An angry old man says quit bitching, basically. A sad young literary old man has advice (?) about how we Youngs are full of GUFF. Guff toward him! Of all people! This rubs some youngs the wrong way. But there is a solution! To everyone's problem! Everyone needs to drop out of school, as soon as possible. The best of the best have done it and lived to tell the tale. Including that angry old guy from before, who was, once again, ahead of the curve. He has moved on to unemployment, which is, we hear, similarly freeing. Who else is in? Update: Ha ha ha. Maybe we should all learn trades?
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By PareeneComment by RollsRoyceRevenge: @Tyrone-Slothrop: I can't believe it either. I thought the old duffer he referred to was an actual person he... more » | Other threads
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single white female
Aspiring Actress Seeks Old Person to Live With, Prey On
This charming 21-year-old aspiring actress needs an apartment. BUT! She's tired of living with immature college students and hard-drinking young adults. She'd like the refined company of a wise elder, you see. So she'd like to move in with "a nice elderly person." Preferably one with a rent-controlled apartment! Is this real? Cajun Boy? (Click to see the entire ad, in case it's deleted.) [Craigslist] -
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Old Man Scores At Cancer Benefit
There's really almost nothing to be said about this except that yes, we are ashamed of ourselves. While perusing New York Social Diary's photos from the American Cancer Society's "Celebration of Life" ball (looked like a blast!), well, we noticed the couple at the far right, reenacting a prom that happened before you were born. It would almost be sweet, if it weren't totally gross that old people have the same needs and desires as us. [New York Social Diary, Photo: Scott Rudd (ACS)]
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By PareeneComment by tbandit456: What should I say to this? The thought makes me feel wrong inside, but I also want to say,"Whooo, you... more » | Other threads
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the olds
Does McCain Remind Us Too Much of Our Own Mortality to Win?
What will be John McCain's greateast challenge in his race for the presidency? His many and varied unethical relationships? Or the fact that he looks like a terrible monster on high-definition TV? Slate's Timothy Noah argues the latter. No one cares about ethics, but many people are buying fancy new flat-screens. And John McCain, who looks grandfatherly and dignified on, like, a YouTube box, looks like a mythological monster in crisp HD. Seriously! Above, a screenshot of McCain in regular definition. After the jump, the clip that's taken from in glorious HD. More » -
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Hitch Wonders Where John McCain's Rag Is
Oh boy. Christopher Hitchens, known for his calm, restrained and unfailingly polite style of argument (those Brits!) comments on the supposed "temper" of old man John McCain in Slate today. The piece is largely an excuse for Hitch to use every synonym for "crazy" that he knows. It's time, he says, that we "wonder whether the Republican nominee has his tray table in the fully locked and upright position, whether he lives happily or unhappily in his own ZIP code, whether there are kittens in his granary or bats in his belfry, and whether his elevator goes all the way to the top." And so on from there. More » -
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Befuddled Old Man Has Own TV Show
Last night on Larry King Live a very old man dropped something, accidentally, and didn't notice. Someone gently pointed it out to him, and he looked down, apparently confused as to how that thing ended up in his lap. Mr. King's contract was recently extended through 2010, and apparently that big old-timey radio mic on the desk is just a prop. -
polling
Breakfast is Political
The only adults we know who actually eat breakfast eat sensible things like bagels or bloody marys. But according to this annoying Times story on "microtrends" in political polling (one in a series of ten million identical pieces every paper in the country prints every election season), the electorate defines itself by its choice in shitty cereal. We have never heard of whatever trail mix garbage the Obama voters supposedly enjoy, while Clinton and McCain supporters' cereals of choice appear to have been devised not by polling but by a lazy observational comedian. Fiber One! Because John McCain is very very old, and old people have difficulty moving their bowels. [NYT] -
social networking
Memo To Martin Scorsese: MySpace Is For Spammers And Pedophiles
People use Facebook for social networking. Everything else is a joke. Oh, Marty. You want to be my "friend" on MySpace now? This is more embarrassing than New York, New York. [via AdRants] -
crazies
Beloved Author Larry Niven Will Solve the Heath Care Mess by Lying to Immigrants
Legendary SciFi author Larry Niven is apparently a far-right-wing crank. A far-right-wing crank who advises the Department of Homeland Security! Niven, famous for his richly detailed stories of precisely defined aliens coexisting with humans, is now famous for trying to explain to a room full of government officials that "a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants." Also: "The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren't going to pay for anything anyway." The man wrote the Ringworld series and invented the Flash Mob so he's beloved by nerds and obviously qualified to advise important government agencies on how best to deal with the Latino menace. [Guanabee]
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By PareeneComment by sassypants: It seems only fair that this guy get an "accidental" lobotomy the next time he goes to the hospital. more » | Other threads
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richard martin
Crazy Old Bay Ridge Man Now A Press Critic
Richard Martin, the crazy old super in Bay Ridge who enjoys posting abusive signs about his tenants and filling his lobby with garbage to teach them all a lesson, is now aiming his strongly worded sign-based commentary at the free press. The newly minted media critic has taken aim at Daily News reporter Matthew Hysiak, whom Martin accuses of being "shit" for misquoting him in an article. Already, Martin has achieved a more insightful level of press criticism than Howard Kurtz. In further news, somebody has stolen Martin's umbrella! Did he post a sign about it? You bet! Photos of his news critique and his arch rejoinder to the umbrella thief [via BeehiveHairdresser], after the jump. More »
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Comment by MF83: I live in Bay Ridge and saw this crazy old man at the grocery store last night. He was screaming... more » | Other threads
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dan rather
What a Kook!
"It is a fact that corporate overlords working in secret collusion with the powers in Washington are intruding far too often in far too many newsrooms." -Dan Rather [After the jump, we play "this thing sounds like that thing!"] More »
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By PareeneComment by ragepotato: @VirusWithShoes: Fucking Brian. That's a fine speech, too. What say you to another commie? more » | Other threads
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journalismism
A Confused Sam Donaldson Chats With Perez Hilton
Popular internet gossip weblogger Mario "Perez" Hilton-Lavandeira 's late endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton in the California primary might have been the deciding factor, according to venerable ABC journalist Sam Donaldson, who was trotted out by terrorists of some kind and forced to interview Lavandeira by phone, to his utter befuddlement. Donaldson explains that he knew Perez's grandfather Conrad, he wonders why there was "this hugely pregnant woman" on Ms. Hilton's internet site, then he promises to watch Perez Hilton's website every day. Buzz buzz! [ABCNews] -
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Facebook in 30 years
"Ted Stapleton is excited about his new cardigan" and Werther's advertises Murray Mints in this parody, "Pensionbook."
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By Nick DouglasComment by waynelambright: It does make you think, where will the web be in 50 years? more » | Other threads
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eating out
Who Will Be Dining At Da Silvano Tonight
Tonight at Da Silvano, there's a dinner for Michael Kirkland, the director of the design firm Groupe Halleon. We were forwarded the invitation to the dinner—and at the bottom, we noticed something curious! Attached was a handy document that provided concise yet colorful sketches of those attending. Let's learn some "Friendly facts on my friends at da salvino [sic] this thursday"! More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by dotorg greg: @atipofthehat: Dear Messrs Strunk and White, Great blog! Can you please tell me your email address? I would like to interview... more » | Other threads
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trends in trends
Watch Out, Little Ones! Rosé Now In With the Wall Street Journal Crowd
It was just last summer that Sunday Styles declared rosé the official new drink of young American cool. They cited everyone: not just the MisShapes but such hipster royalty as Jay McInerney and the guitarist from Franz Ferdinand. Rosé was the "summer drink to be seen with;" the owner of the Maritime Hotel—that's where Hiro Ballroom is—compared one brand in particular to 501 jeans and called it a "groundswell buzz name." This weekend, almost a year later, the trend comes full circle, as rosé is featured in "Tastings," the Wall Street Journal wine column written by a pair of old people named Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher. The sun, they say, is "rising on rosé." And in true hipster fashion, they claim that they've been saying it since 2000. More »
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By lneyfakhComment by Dwayne Provecho: Remember that scene in Altman's Pret-a-Porter, where some fashion douche requests rose, and the butler pours 1/2 red & 1/2... more » | Other threads
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drinking
Oldest Bartender's Advice: Stop Drinking
Nice little bittie here on Hoy Wong, believed to be the city's oldest bartender: More » -
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NYPL Keeps Whiny Old Ladies From Facing 21st Century
And so you ask yourself, who — in this era of Google and Nexis and online dictionaries and encyclopedias — who would ever bother to use an old-fashioned reference librarian anymore, let alone the New York Public Library's vaunted — and, as it turns out, not-yet-eliminated — telephone reference service? The Times knows: More »
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By JesseComment by Barbara E.: Google et al are useless if the searchers are too stupid to know the question or how to navigate/prune/assess the... more » | Other threads
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