February 2008
9 posts
Dust Off Those Old 'Toonces the Driving Cat'...
And somebody phone Laraine Newman’s agent. “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is in talks with a major Vegas casino to create a live “SNL” revue. We hear the casino hopes to lure boomers with nightly shows in which Martin Short, Jon Lovitz, Julia Sweeney and other alumni would do classic sketches and new material. Top “SNL” vets like Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Steve Martin...
A Drunken Furtado
This week’s winning line from the New Yorker’s oft-quotable (for a variety of reasons) Sasha Frere-Jones, on Amy Winehouse: Is there a TMZ video of anyone else arranging her hair in public? Winehouse is the Marge Simpson of junkie retro soul. Runner up: “Frank” [Winehouse’s first album] sounds a bit like a drunken [Nelly] Furtado working a piano bar without the benefit of a...
Over 2000 Classic Short Stories Online →
No excuse now, I suppose, to not get that Guy de Maupassant allusion, is there? (via)
Methodology
Someone might want to alert Method actress Paris Hilton that there’s a new edition of Stanislavsky’s vaunted training technique, which may hew closer to his original intent that the previously published tracts.
Madge Nails It
So in an article about Julian Schnabel’s big pink palace in the current ish of Vanity Fair, the overstuffed “Hollywood Issue” (not online currently), Madonna is said to have remarked that the Richard Meier apt. building on the West Side Highway “reminded her of a housing project in comparison to Schnabel’s Venetian splendor.” I could never put my finger on...
First We Take Porkhattan
suzieghq: I wonder if you can make a Porktini with corn whiskey? just loll some bacon out it's maw
me: ugh. sure, but god.
suzieghq: It might change your life
me: it would be more like a porkhattan. cuz manhattans are whiskey
suzieghq: Or, you know, make you sterile. HAHAHAHA -- porkhattan!!
me: swinehattan. pighattan. someone please make and test a porkhattan STAT.
suzieghq: amazing HAHAHAHAHA. Oinkhattan?
me: oinkhattan. yes.
suzieghq: Well played
me: yes. yes. I do want someone to DO IT, just not me.not first.
suzieghq: why not?!
me: i don't want to die.
suzieghq: nice. But someone else can die for the sake of the oinkhattan? Ooh. I bet I can get Rusty to do it You know how those gays will drink anything
Pomo Queer Tent Revival
After viewing the Kiki and Herb DVD I think I can now finally succinctly describe what attending one of their live shows is like: a postmodern, queer tent revival. How else do you justify transitioning from “Jesus Loves Me” to Jarvis Cocker’s “Running the world” (“cunts are still running the world,” in case you wondered) in the same moment while...