Fun New Mind-Control Toy Mesmerizes Good Morning America
We know it's a holiday weekend, but you're still on TV, Good Morning America. Don't just put funny headphones on and concentrate on thinking about blowing balls, or whatever the hell is going on here.
Saturdays Are For Godlessness: Homeless and Atheists Get Screwed
Like any good beginning to a Saturday night: uppers and downers. Godless teenagers and homeless people.
Richard and Hamilton Take Over the Weekend!
Well, this weekend. My brother's getting married and we're having the inevitable Atlantic City bachelor party thing tomorrow through Sunday. So your old friends Richard Lawson and Hamilton Nolan have graciously stepped up to cover for me-Richard tomorrow and Hamilton on Sunday. Thanks guys! (Please don't show me up?)…
A Word About Weekend Gawker
Hey everyone, just a brief note about the summer version of Gawker Weekend. Tomorrow through Labor Day it's going to be mini-Gawker Weekend. The vom the papers and magazines-and all of media-seek to make us consume on weekends in the dead of summer is all rehash, trashy speculation, crappy political senselessness, and…
Robbie Knievel's Record-Breaking Bike Jump
It's not an American summer holiday weekend if some crazy bastard doesn't pull off a life-threatening stunt. So, last night at an Ohio amusement park, Robbie "Son of Evel" Knievel jumped his motorcycle 200 feet through the air, hopping 24 delivery trucks and breaking his dad's 1975 record of 14 trucks in the process.…
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE
Finally! Everyone but us will stop paying attention to Julia Allison. [Reuters]
Book Review Unveils Startling Equation As Explanation For Urban Alienation
Interested in turning your world from "blasé to rosé"? The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine, featured in today's Times Book Review, chronicles the lives of some pretty lonely folk—lonely, that is, until they are rescued from anomie by some heroic canines. No simple matter of dog being (wo)man's best friend, apparently…
Who Says There's No News on Saturday?
Once in a while, Gawker Weekend gets to a page like A27 in today's Times and it all makes sense. This dog's eyes betray the wisdom and sadness of an old soul. Weird how the one walking on its nose has its physiology illustrated with that X. Are they trying to tell Paris that Tinkerbell will become faster than other…
