Fantastic:
After watching his sister try three times to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Sameer Mishra put himself on a mission. “I told my mom I was going to do the bee,” Sameer said. “And if I was going to do it, I was going to win it one day. And I guess it [...]
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Homogenous, Homogeneous
Published May 31st, 2008 in Celebrity, Education, Indiana, Language and People. 5 Commentsthe parody video Tom Cruise WANTS you to see! on FunnyOrDie.com
Who knew I’d ever recommend something starring Jerry O’Connell?
Tom Cruise is a Walking Freak Show
Published January 16th, 2008 in Celebrity and Religion. 9 CommentsThat is all.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, featuring not-Cowboy Curtis
Published December 22nd, 2007 in Celebrity, Humor, Racism, Weirdness and Work. 29 CommentsEarly this week I committed a serious faux pas.
It’s funny, really, that through my youth, and then my college years, all the time I was immersed in progressive literature, identity politics and activism, I would find myself in the most diverse environment I’ve enjoyed yet at an entry-level job in whitebread middle America. [...]
“Taking Responsibility”
Published December 19th, 2007 in Celebrity, Feminism, Parenthood and Sex. 14 CommentsObviously the big news of the day is the announcement by Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister of Britney, that she is pregnant. (See also: The Cleaver and Dadsmacker) The sixteen-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” in which my son is thankfully completely disinterested, meaning that I’ve never seen it, made the announcement today, [...]
A Tentative Congratulations to The Queen
Published December 5th, 2007 in Celebrity, GLBTQ and Marriage. 8 CommentsAn internet celebrity news source says that Queen Latifah has proposed to her long-term girlfriend and they plan to have a public wedding sometime in the recent future.
How cool is that?
“Mom! Mom! Mom!” she shouted as a female deputy escorted her from the courtroom. “It’s not fair. It’s not right!”
But drunk driving is totally cool.
Lost (For a Good Reason) Boys
Published April 24th, 2007 in Back In the Day, Celebrity and Entertainment. 10 CommentsIn truth, I’m just bitter that a certain License to Drive broke my DVD player last year after it was sent to me by a certain libertarian blogger that shall not be named, and I’m (*cough*) certain The Coreys were behind this.
Regardless, they’re back:
Corey Feldman and Corey Haim are reuniting in the name [...]
A Blogger’s Brush With Fame
Published April 11th, 2007 in Celebrity, Movies and Suburbia. 6 CommentsI watched The Devil and Daniel Johnston a couple of nights ago, a documentary about the crux of genius and mental illness, outsider art, and the indie music scene. It’s truly a gorgeous movie and sits solidly beside other comparable documentaries like The Daddy of Rock ‘N’ Roll and New York Doll. I’m [...]
News: Queen to Meet “The Queen”
Published February 26th, 2007 in Celebrity, Humor and Movies. 2 CommentsHelen Mirren, who won the best actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in “The Queen,” may be invited to tea, Buckingham Palace said Monday, after which Mirren will summarily be hanged.
Who the hell, aside from Camille “I Heart Camille Paglia” Paglia, thought it would be a good idea to get Camille Paglia back on Salon?
Quoting the late, great Molly Ivins in 1991:
What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. The Norman Podhoretz of our gender. That this woman is actually taken [...]
If Courtney Love becomes the next judge for American Idol I will watch every single episode. On principle.
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