Trust me, this was not my idea:
Not that I’m opposed to it; I really don’t care. I mean, I had my ears pierced when I was 8, then when I was in college I just let them close up because I just never wore earrings. Now, I could go all into the anthropological oddity of [...]
So, according to my sources (thanks, mirth), people are somehow finding a way to make this video a topic of feminist discussion.
Um…really? I mean, it’s a pop song…with a catchy beat…and an innocuous, anti-”why buy the cow” sort of theme. I mean, would it be more pro-feminist if the chorus were “I choose to have [...]
Really, the whole thing was pretty amazing, but the more I think about it, the more I think this was the best-executed of the lot.
Of course, the yidden will love this gem.
Nice to see Colbert getting back to his singing and dancing roots.
Place: jcrew, Chestnut Hill Mall
Time: 11:55 AM, Thursday
Personae: jcrew worker (male), jcrew worker (female), tree hugger/environmentalist/stay-at-home dad (male), under-cover operative (me)
Dad: (preparing to pay for merchandise) I’ll just take this in the bag I brought in…
Male worker continues to ring him up.
Female Worker: That bag? I threw it away already.
Dad: (peevishly) I brought it back [...]
…that they are engaging in misleading branding…unless Kate Winslet is their spokeswoman…
There I was today, sitting in a tucked away corner of the only decent coffee shop in Waltham, drinking my latte, with nothing to do but peruse the large message board that lay within my sight line. It was chock full of goodies, like ads for private Japanese tutors and yoga classes. But the more [...]
Bassie: So what did you just vote for?
Me: President.
Bassie: What else?
Me: The ballot measure to abolish income tax.
Bassie: Which you voted ‘no’ to.
Me: Yes.
Bassie: What else?
Me: There was a proposition about…about the penalty for a certain crime…(I stumble as I try to figure out how to explain it)
Bassie: Just tell me exactly what it said.
Me: [...]
Is it too much to ask Sarah Palin to get dressed up a little to go vote for herself for Vice President of the United States of America? I mean, she doesn’t have to wear the fancy Neiman’s stuff the RNC bought for her, but, like, maybe a pair of Favorite Fit crepe wool [...]