Archive for May 2010
Until further notice…
… This will be my song of the summer. What’s going to be yours? Best Coast, “When I’m With You.”
Read MoreA tart, citrusy pour from the One-Man Book Club
The Tonsil Blog’s One-Man Book Club is back together, this time at Hank’s place. (Okay, every time at Hank’s place. Isn’t a book club so much nicer with one member?) It’s been long enough since the last meeting that the beverage of choice has switched from a wintry red (malbec) to a nice, crisp white…
Read MoreHell is other people’s ‘Lost’ theories
I only thought I’d typed my last words about Lost for The Washington Post. This morning, post-finale, it turned out we really needed someone to make the case for purgatory, amid all the other theories we were posting, either by Liz Kelly and Jen Chaney (our in-house “Lost” PhD’s), or from lots of devoted readers.…
Read MoreThose who can’t
This is an interesting idea for a documentary (h/t the New Yorker’s Book Bench Blog), which is making the rounds … A guy found all of the poems he wrote as a teenager, when he was convinced that he would become the world’s greatest poet. Years later, he unearths them and realizes how bad the…
Read MoreLost, found, lost
Here’s something I wrote for the paper about the end of (perhaps meaning of) Lost. More important, here’s the Owen Freeman illo that went with it. Only, when it came time to run the essay, the powers that be decided to run it on A1 on Friday, where we would just never ever run an…
Read MoreYou’ll be wanting this
At long last, the greatest hits of Gene Weingarten. Coming in July.
Read MoreSNL Homowatch (5/15: Alec Baldwin)
Well, it remains to be seen if my time is well-spent on an SNL Homowatch or not, but hallelujah, the season is over. If anything egregiously gay-obsessed comes up in the summer reruns, I’ll hork up a blog item about it. If not, I’ll think about reviving the SNLHW (hey, if everybody can abbreviate everything…
Read MoreOh my garsh
Big hailstorm Sunday back in the land of my birth. The wind comes right behind the plain … and fucks shit up. I feel bad for everyone’s car. I also feel bad for watching these over and over. I love the people and their acksints. Sounds like home; looks like it too. I can almost…
Read MoreLooks really matter
I got into newspapers in high school because I liked the way they look. In college, I chose writing and editing over design, but two decades later I keep wondering if I made the right choice. We’ve been attempting a bit of visual branding with some of my longer reviews/essays about television in the Style…
Read MoreGood grades in everything but math and hair
Right on schedule, I’ve become one of those tedious people who measures the passage of time in varying degrees of disbelief and iPod playlists. According to reunion literature that came in the mail and which I tossed in the trash, it’s been 20 years since I graduated from Loyola. (Bachelor of Arts — major in…
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