February 2012
1 post
January 2012
7 posts
updated from November 17, 2008
The post that fine morning was titled “LD reactions to the first song off a new Springsteen record in the years since he (LD, not BS) attained semi-adulthood.” So without any ado at all:
We Take Care Of Our Own, January 19, 2011: “His Bon Joviest moment yet. And with that, I am going to stick my head in the blender.”
"the cops definitely touched me on some of those... →
NSFW, unless you happen to work in a urologist’s office. Via Justin Halpern.
heartbreaking →
But as Lou put it: “Blaming his failed business on changing drinking habits and texting? If you can’t figure out how to make money selling beer in a college town, then you need to reevaluate.” So Dunbar’s, somehow, is going to be the last dive standing. That’s a huge upset.
"Cherry Pye underwent three months of expensive...
I know that people read Carl Hiaasen novels on airplanes, but that doesn’t make them (the novels, not the people) any less worthy. If he’s not the best satirist alive, I don’t know who is. Buy the almost unfairly entertaining Star Island here.
I defy you to write a dopier column lede →
December 2011
6 posts
satire is often lost upon those being satired →
You can understand the confusion →
Via the jealousy-inducingly funny John Moe.
a little self-promotionalismness →
I just started writing a twice-per-week column for MediaPost, in which I babble about web video that has an advertising/marketing slant. It’d sure be swell if you read it.
Review of recent household acquisition
Item: Baby boy
Condition: New, wrinkly, occasionally agitated
Cons: Is unable to complete simple tasks without assistance… Keeps the same hours as Keith Richards, minus the emergency-room downtime after falls off stage and out of trees… Cannot distinguish between adult shoulders and cribs/bassinets, and operates under misguided presumption that all three surfaces serve the same...
November 2011
2 posts
cross one school off the list for the kid
“Paul Howard, 24, an aerospace engineering student, jeered the police. ‘Of course we’re going to riot,’ he said. ‘What do they expect when they tell us at 10 o’clock that they fired our football coach?’”
Like it's not enough to run the darn thing →
What an amazing feat of creativity and imagination. Check out the earlier and later updates as well.
October 2011
8 posts
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
I am about to become a dad. I am [mumbles inaudibly] years old. I just downloaded this for my phone. I regret nothing.
if I live until 100, I should be able to run a... →
Good to know.
Yanks in (more than) a sentence: Tigers 3, Yankees...
1. What a strange series.
2. On one hand, the Tigers won it. They pitched well enough, hit well enough and fielded the ball cleanly. That last part hasn’t received enough attention: The Tigers are a dirt-rotten team defensively, yet they handled just about every single play cleanly.
3. On the other, the Yankees lost it. In the wake of any shameful, disappointing, opposite-of-heroic,...
Yanks in (more than) a sentence: Yankees 10,...
1. A.J. Burnett earned 10 True Yankee points last night, which catapults him ahead of Kevin Brown and Jaret Wright and into the Hideki Irabu/Denny Neagle pantheon. Huzzah!
2. Other awards/demerits: Jeter gets 5 True Yankee points for his run-scoring double and the commonplace play up the middle that he made look difficult. Granderson gets 12 True Yankee points for the two catches and his own...
Yanks in (more than) a sentence: Tigers 5, Yankees...
1. If you’d told me before the game that Sabathia would walk six batters (one intentionally) in five-plus innings and that I’d be yelling at the TV and other inanimate objects in my living room for Girardi to yank him, I would not have expected the Yankees to head into the ninth inning down only a single run.
2. Girardi still screwed up massively by sending Sabathia out there for...
Yanks in (more than) a sentence: Tigers 5, Yankees...
1. After a season enduring the derrrrr-look-at-me-manage-my-bullpen-and-call-team-meetings-and-smile-reassuringly-derrrrrrrrr antics of Fredi Gonzalez and Jim Tracy, I’d arrived at the conclusion that Joe Girardi is capable enough at what he does for a living. “The devil you know,” etc. But he was back in overstrung-schizo mode yesterday afternoon, simultaneously overmanaging...
Yanks in (more than) a sentence: Yankees 9, Tigers...
1. I didn’t see this one live, as I was out at what the kids used to call “a rock ‘n roll show.” For future reference, they do not serve beer at the United Palace Theatre. Getting to hear Suit Of Lights, Town Cryer and Watch Your Step/Secondary Modern was nonetheless a treat.
2. So I turbo-watched the game via DVR just now, which means it’s a doubleheader Sunday...
September 2011
4 posts
"While I was away yesterday David Thorne moved my... →
I am too old to find things like this as funny as I do.
really enjoyed this take →
Liked Scott’s one, too. Lotsa great Mo-related stuff out there today, for obvious reasons.
"the new tracks depict rugged Martian colonists as... →
August 2011
11 posts
Ray Davies: making everything from imminent...
Your recovery choices: Chokeberries, Mangosteens... →
Perhaps you’d ask, “Why run at all?” You might have a point.
No photo? Come on. →
(With usual caveat that there’s nothing funny about drinking and driving, etc.)
The LD Five-Word Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
Hiring good actors usually helps.
We’ve seen a bunch of others in recent weeks: Beginners (far less twee than expected), Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop (his assistant deserves combat pay), Somewhere (the slowest movie ever made) and Hot Coffee, “There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane” and a bunch of the other Monday night HBO documentaries (HBO docs > HBO...
There's a joke here somewhere →
When music dorks rehash the Dylan-vs.-Springsteen argument, they rarely bring up the circumspection (circumspectitude? circumspectedy?) of each performer’s advisors. Somebody somewhere, whether Jon Landau (bastardized among Springsteen aficionados as the dude who sees everything in terms of dollar signs) or whoever, impressed it upon Bruce not to release the “demo” video of DITD...
When I was your age, we had to walk seven miles to... →
I'm calling it now →
This will be one of the worst records ever made.
July 2011
6 posts
To quote B-H: Yes yes yes yes YES →
I couldn’t be giddier about this. In related news, I’m an adult who, technically speaking, has a job.
"I don’t regard natural disasters as an... →
Dan Harmon is a funny fellow.
June 2011
8 posts
"Cheese Whiz degrades life" →
Via the venerable Ms. Fain’s Homesick Texan twitter feed.
Letters. I get letters.
“Innovative scientific analysis,” eh? That makes PQ, what, UZR for conservative think-tankers?
»>Washington, DC – It’s no secret that the media tilts to the left, but a new book uses innovative scientific analysis to show that, not only do media outlets tend to have a liberal bias when reporting the news, their distorted coverage causes media consumers to have more liberal...
"Sometimes you wear sneakers with a blazer!" →