March 2009
5 posts
GQ: Why Brunch Blows:
Fake-farmy restaurants! Hangovers with strangers! Long lines! Watery mimosas! Seventeen-dollar French toast! Sickly orange slices sadly dying next to overwrought infantilizing pancake concoctions on chipped china! Half your waking weekend day spent in a hollandaise haze!
“Can I top off your shitty coffee?” Yes, please! Because it’s brunch. And everyone must love brunch. Because...
February 2009
16 posts
Best Album of 2k9 Gets A Name. And it's Not "No... →
I’d be way remiss if I didn’t mention that my favorite album of 2009 just got a cover, and a name, and a tracklisting.
It’s called “Manners”, and it’ll find its way into my sweaty, admittedly-a-little-too-obsessed hands on May 26.
Now, about these “Passion Pit” people: I don’t know much about them besides what I’ve read about on the...
Confession: I created a bro. (And I liked it.)
OK, so, wow— how to start. Well. Let’s just get right on into it. About two years ago, I did kind of a funny thing. (Definitely not funny ha-ha; funny queer.)
One morning, in the very uncertain and anxiety-ridden era of the year AD 2007, I woke up, had a nice breakfast, (in all likelihood) took a gnarly bong hit (salad days, those wake-&-bake-rs), and decided to create my...
Google Finds Lost-City Atlantis, Denies It →
[story and image via the NYT Bits Blog]
So some Ocean Mapping thing that Google’s doing (for whatever reason) fucked up and totally freaked out a whole bunch of nerds.
Amongst a whole lotta normal-looking ocean floor imagery, there was a tiny patch that looked a bit different. And so, everyone who regularly checks out online maps of the ocean floor gravitated, quite naturally, towards the...
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BTW: Here Are Some Fun Names To Say Whilst...
Slobodan Miloshevich
Ban Ki Moon
Don Cheadle
John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt (particularly fun if this happens to be your name too)
Sirhan Sirhan
Condoleezza Rice
Sanjay Gupta
George Stephanopoulos
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beyonce
Spiderman Musical Gets Premiere Date →
So there’s a Spiderman Musical in production. “Wow!”, you might think. “Comic Books and Musicals! Now there’s a gay marriage I can support.”
Ha ha! Good one, you.
But, careful. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
Lurking beneath the innocuous coupling of superheroes and musical theater is something destined to turn an otherwise-happy gay...