Last week in this space, I confessed my inability to dump AOL email despite the many technical difficulties I've had with the service. I've since gotten calls from public relations and technical staffers from AOL, who say they're on the case.
But for now, as with the last several months, I'm still unable to sign on [...]
I have some separation issues. I still have sneakers from high school and a ballcap from Little League. But the worst evidence of my sickness is my AOL e-mail address. It's the first and still only e-mail address I've ever used.
Which would be OK if AOL e-mail weren't such an awful product.
Everybody around me has [...]
Editor & Publisher reported yesterday on the end of Leonard Downie's tenure as Washington Post editor, mentioning that he'll start dedicating his energies to writing books. He already has one novel in the can—The Rules of the Game, to be published by Knopf in January—which he says is "not about The Washington Post."
Reading Knopf's [...]
Last Friday, D.C.-based blog The New Gay posted this documentation of a recent Adams Morgan hate crime. The post, penned by film/theater outfit Crack co-founder Chris Farris, includes graphic photos of the victims of a severe beating that occurred on a recent Saturday evening close to the 18th Street strip. Writes Farris:
My friend, Todd, was [...]
If there were any doubts, clearly, the last few days have shown that Sarah Palin is indeed qualified...to be a reality TV star!
Seriously, what's "Living Lohan" got that "Living Palin" wouldn't?
Check out the cast: There's the drunk snowmobile racer dad, the brother-in-law who tases toddlers and shoots moose when he shouldn't be shooting moose, the [...]
Many a book makes its way from the hands of the doe-eyed, hype-seeking paperback publisher to the illustrious, half-abandoned-cubicle-lined halls of the City Paper offices. Periodically, I will peruse our collection of these volumes, searching for the rare submission that rises above all others to offend me on the basis of its title alone. When [...]
A spot of news sure to please bike enthusiasts, lovers of art-rock, and managing editors alike: the New York Times reports that David Byrne, "cultural omnivore," has rolled out a new line of bike racks across NYC, with whimsical designs geared toward the peculiarities of each neighborhood. My personal favorite: "Mudflap Tammy," who racily [...]
Why, hello there, person who attended my high school. Thank you for requesting to reconnect with me via a social networking Website. It appears that you've recently become someone's wife.
At first I wasn't so sure that you had recently gotten married. But then I noticed that you had changed your last name to a completely [...]
Last month, I wrote a column on Eduardo Rodriguez, Artomatic's "Penis Guy," who claimed that the art exhibition had censored his genitalia-themed work (Show & Tell, "The Schlong Goodbye," May 16, 2008). After the accusation hit local art forum artdc.org, Artomatic supporters delivered Rodriguez an extended e-smackdown, calling him an "asshole," an "idiot," and a [...]
My cousin was pregnant with her second child, and she and her husband went to the doctor for some tests, one of which pinpointed the exact date of conception. The doctor said to my cousin and her husband, "The test says you got pregnant on XYZ date. Does that seem right to you?" [...]
The Washington Post has gone kid crazy lately, with huge stories on rich kids begging for a prom date (front page?), on the place oral sex has in kids' lives, and now a series on obese kids.
A single story about rich, fat kids begging for oral sex at the prom would have sufficed.
Though perhaps Laura [...]
The confessional of a cheating heart in the most recent New York magazine really got me going, as, I'm sure, the editors hoped it would. This Philip Weiss guy has dug about a millimeter into the subject and come up with scientific proof men just can't help sticking it in other women for a little [...]
I missed the least sexy holiday of they year somehow. Yesterday was the National Day to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Cristina Page at the Huffington Post did some data hunting on NARAL's website and came up with the conclusion that kids in pro-life states get laid more often than kids in pro-choice states. [...]
Durex.com (a friend linked me here; I do not surf Durex.com) has charted the sexual activity of countries around the globe. What Durex determines to be "sex" depends on what their definition of "is" is, but no matter! Whatever sex is, Greece does it most often, with 138 times a year on average, followed by [...]
Moe at Jezebel points out the oh-gosh politics and journalism cross in strange ways news that Andrea Mitchell won't let her hubby Alan Greenspan spend any time alone with his one-time snuggle bunny, Barbara Walters. Moe thinks our generation of women is more comfortable with sharing past partners. I think she's right, for the most [...]
