I love Salman Rushdie’s short story, “The Shelter of the World,” featured in this week’s New Yorker.
Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and [...]
Archive > February 2008
Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker
Evidence that we are running out of cool band names
The alternative title for this blog post is, of course, “Warped Tour Lineup 2008.”
3OH!3 whole tour
A Day to Remember jun 20 - jul 20
Against Me! whole tour
Aggrolites whole tour
Alesana whole tour
All That Remains jul 22 - aug 17
All Time Low jul 22 - aug 17
Anberlin jun 21 - aug 17
Angels and Airwaves whole tour
As I [...]
Three glorious pages of leaked Diablo Cody screenplay
I’m pretty sure it’s an overdone fake, but man is that former stripper clever, sassy, and knowledgeable about music.
Dubai is like a spoiled rich girl whose 16th birthday is coming up
WELCOME TO DUBAI
Underwater hotels, artificial islands, amusement parks twice the size of Disney World, the world’s tallest buildings, indoor ski resorts, and a mall with “9,000 square feet of shopping.” Is this really what we’re doing with all our money? Is this really wise? Aren’t we earthlings just getting closer to becoming an alien super [...]
Celebrity flashback
Does anyone else remember the historic day last August when Perez Hilton announced he was 100% sure Fidel Castro was dead? I am thinking about adapting his blog post into a feature-length film, like War of the Worlds (based on a book radio hoax) or Pirates of the Caribbean (based on a theme park ride). [...]
Hallmarks of good gym etiquette
I recently joined a gym, and boy would I be looking good if working out didn’t make me so hungry for Mexican food. And it’s not just any gym - it’s the most state-of-the-art, LA/Manhattan/Madonna-worthy gym in Virginia. I get a discounted membership because of my mob connections. Also, my sweat doesn’t stink.
I have [...]
Interesting people making love and dancing to Randy Newman
I like to read about unconventional marriages, especially if one of the principals is a writer. This couple - made up of novelist Jennifer Belle and entertainment lawyer Andrew Krents - spends more time apart than together because “familiarity breeds contempt.” For instance Belle went to Venice alone for her honeymoon because Krents couldn’t find [...]
Zadie Smith hates your short story
This year Zadie Smith and the other judges of the Willesden Herald Short Story Competition decided not to honor any writer with the prize. They didn’t consider any submissions good enough to win. I thought that was pretty awesome, even though the whole thing reeks of a publicity stunt. The judges wanted to make a [...]
Finally learning to trick out the blog
I chose this for my first hosted image. I know you understand.
Pop quiz for the moms
Your baby’s hungry. Your baby’s hands are cold and chapped.
Do you
a) remove your baby from the cold and let him gum yogurt, applesauce, or chunks of banana until his hunger pangs are soothed?
or
b) rub Victoria’s Secret lotion into your baby’s skin and then feed him rainbow mini marshmallows from a plastic baggie?
I’m not a mom. [...]
