Alien spam
I got some spam email in my mailbox that began this way: Who I am? Shiny green eyes, twenty two years… It went on to catalogue her other enticing body parts—“C cup,” for example, which I would have thought was … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Pop culture
Uncle Drew…
…shows em how it’s done:
Continue reading →Facebook loneliness
Is Facebook making us more lonely? Well, it’s not making me more lonely, because I’m not on it—although I suppose if I thought about it, the fact that I’m not on Facebook could make me feel more lonely. But I … Continue reading →
Stop the presses! Geriatric Claudia Schiffer still looks pretty darn good
Wow! Can you believe that Claudia Schiffer, who first burst on the scene as a model in 1989, still can sell the goods? At the mindbogglingly ancient age of—41? I hate to break it to Shine and all the others … Continue reading →
Branding Mitt Romney
My new article, “Branding Retro Romney,” is up at PJ. It’s about the perils of casting Mitt Romney in the “Mad Men” role, as the Obama administration has been wont to do. You can comment there or here, or better … Continue reading →
Is anyone on earth…
…the least bit surprised at this? Certainly not the young lady’s mother, who gets the grim satisfaction of being able to say “I told you so.”
Continue reading →The lottery plot thickens
And now it seems quite possible that Mirlande Wilson was not even a lottery winner, much less the lottery winner: The New York Post reported that a Maryland McDonald’s employee, Mirlande Wilson, 37, is claiming to be the winner and … Continue reading →
Most definitely not…
…a feel-good story. Except, perhaps, for Mirlande Wilson herself. And even then, she’s got some splainin to do.
Continue reading →Romney squared
In 2008 I wrote a post entitled “Wanting a cool and sexy Prez,” in which I evaluated Obama and previous presidents on the dimension of cool: Maybe it’s come down to this: choosing a President is now mostly about style … Continue reading →
For your viewing pleasure
I don’t know about you, but I was in the mood for a laugh. And I got one—or even more than one:
Continue reading →Real…
or fake? This is why it’s probably fake. More about the controversy here. And here’s a history of humankind’s attempts to build an ornithopter, which is what this purported invention would be called: a man-powered flying machine that is not … Continue reading →
Fun with Comcast
Today my internet connection went down. I tried all the usual things: asking Comcast to refresh the signal, disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, calling and speaking to customer service. It was the latter that really got my goat. First the … Continue reading →