Betcha never saw a correction like this one in the mainstream media. And you probably didn’t know who the funniest guys in the room were, either. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Archives for March 2005
SUNDAY FUNNIES
For your viewing pleasure: a video clip of Bill Maher, Robin Williams, Leslie Stahl and Joe Biden on male prostitute-cum-White House correspondent Jeff Gannon. It’s old, but it’s good. (Click the DSL link.) If you don’t recall what that’s all about, here’s a reminder. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
FUNK AND LOATHING
Frank Rich weighs in on Hunter S. Thompson in a column to run Sunday in the print edition of The New York Times. It’s already on the Times website here. A sample: Read “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72” — the chronicle of his Rolling Stone election coverage — and you find that […]
THE DEAD HAND OF MR. SS
The item about Stephen Schwartz’s crackpot burial of Hunter S. Thompson continues to resonate: “I read his article on Thompson,” a Straight Up visitor writes. “It brought to mind the sound of an empty garbage can bouncing its way down a very long flight of concrete steps. It just bounced from declaration to declamation. It […]
GAWKERS, GEEZERS AND OUTSIDERS
Gawker took note of the Straight Up item about right-wing navel-gazer Stephen Schwartz laying his dead hand on Hunter S. Thompson. Our staff of thousands says thanks to Gawker for boosting traffic and welcome to all you newbies. So, while we have your eyeballs … “The 80s: 326 Years of Hip,” a group show of […]