Except she wasn’t like That at all. She just wasn’t. She was so many things other than That, so many other things that she knew, she knew knew knew, if other people knew they would think about her, and things, more than once. Upon knowing, they would shake some sort of previous image, that prior opinion, out of […]
2007 Oscars Fever Fades, Normal Life Resumes
Did anybody watch the awards this year? I didn’t. I had Oscar fever so bad that it sent me to bed and I passed out before Ellen hit the stage. I thought I might have something to say about the awards show this year, but I wasn’t really looking forward to watching them. I didn’t […]
Valentine’s Day Is Stupid Unless You Have One
Dear St. Valentine: Who you are is not really clear to many historians but you stand for love, which is commendable. However, every year you make more people feel terrible about life than Hannity & Colmes, runway models, and the New York Knicks combined, which is a lot of damn people. Because of you, I […]
Is Anna Nicole Still Dead?
Does the media obession with Anna Nicole Smith really extend much further than getting ratings and giving them the best excuse to splash cleavage on TV since the Tara Connors rehab story? I’m conflicted on this now because there are so many real questions about her death that remain unsolved and just as many questions […]
Steve Jobs 2, Record Industry 0
Steve Jobs is a clever fellow. I know you, you probably know it, and he’s said that he knows it. Once in a while, he drops a bomb on all of us, and we are made to bask in his glow for as long as our cynicism allows (you know, before we start taking innovations […]
Adieu, Britannia, Alright UK?
As a native English speaker, I can say with a hand on my heart that my grammar is crap. I was never taught the inner workings of my language until I was forced to in order to attain an English teaching certificate. Now, I can’t get enough of the scientific dissection of the language; but […]