Archive for May, 2010

Best parenthetical remark I’ve read today

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

(there is a gulf between a right-wing American and a right-wing Canadian that reaches from wing tip to wing tip of the Republican Party) That’s from this profile on hockey in America, written from the perspective of a Canadian. The whole article is very good; you can feel the despair when he rattles off the [...]

Lady Gaga interview

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Would you play for the Pope, if he asked you? “Yeah,” Gaga says. There’s a pause. Perhaps she considers her current stage show, and the section where her male dancers grab their gigantic, fake white penises, and bounce them off their palms to Boys Boys Boys. “Well. I’d do an acoustic show for the Pope,” [...]