Thursday, August 30, 2018

Greatest headline ever?

The New Yorker spotted this one a while back in one of its local rivals; I’ve just taken a while to post it. But I think we can all agree that this is timeless. And now that I think about it, the first sentence is even better than the headline: “A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper.

Sunday, June 24, 2018

McSweeney's has a hilarious historical review of the NYT's tweeting habits dating well into the 19th Century. It's not that the NYT and its reporters and editors have failed to realize and thus call out that the Republican party has become a pack of radicalized hyenas lacking any coherent moral or political world view, it's that both-sides have always done it that way.

Friday, June 22, 2018

Chewbaquaman

I'm not really sure what to say about this.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Julie Fucking Montecristo

Drew Magary is on fire today, literally (in the figurative sense of the word employed by my tween), taking white people to task for the terrible fucking names they choose for their children. Also, I may have just had a large iced coffee from a nearby coffee shop, so could easily turn this post into a 3000 word stream-of-conscious spew, so I had better put a period right here.