The epic abomination of “Sex and the City”
When challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence the writer, poet, and critic Dorothy Parker retorted, “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” Parker, the...
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The deaths that bind us: Solzhenitsyn, Pugovkin, Mordyukova
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though? Solzhenitsyn's life spanned many eras: WWII, the gulag, the Khrushchev years,...
Thanks, Hollywood! The joy of unneeded sequels
We see it on blogs, websites, magazines. We hear it on radio shows. We even comment on it to each other. Believe me, I know how cliché it is to say that Hollywood is out of ideas. But in that same...
Euro 2008: boys with balls
Thank God for the existence of Iker Casillas. The Spanish keeper, team captain, and Legolas-like wonderboy made the final bearable for me. Casillas made me think back to 2002, when this unusually...
My Superhero Dream Team: prepare for glory!
Like most men, I have very limited insight into the higher neurological functions of the American female. So, as far as discussing the themes that women find appealing in their television and movies,...
The Unholy Union of Starbucks and “Juno”
I’m fairly neutral on the subject of Starbucks, because I don’t care about coffee. Coffee generally reminds me of dirty, boiling water that has been poured through a rusty grating and into a cup...
The greatest hits of my greatest weaknesses
I want to provide you with a mariner’s chart of my character: the contrasts and topography of my chipped, flawed personality. What the hell, you ask? Well, this is based on that narcissism that all...
I Done Wrote Some Letters
"...letters mingle souls" - John Donne. Since I’m something of a handsome expert on everything, I’m familiar with therapeutic techniques. These are the tools that psychiatrists use to keep you...
Today, the Washington Post made me gnash my teeth
Sweet Jesus, Anne Applebaum, stereotype much? Of course there were many very famous "sultry" women in the USSR - things did not begin, and end, with Stalin and Liubov Orlova (an actress from the...
Soundtrack: An iPod Epic
This is where this particular story starts: I was listening to my iPod, and I had set it to shuffle. I don’t necessarily like the shuffle function. I resort to it. Some folks enjoy the surprise of...