Archives for November 2005

A gag is making the email rounds: 1. Go to the Aaaahhhh, on Aug. 11, 2003 in our first Straight Up post, to be precise — and pointed out that the Web wit who thought up the gag and commandeered the Google site was a guy by the name of blogging pharmacist with a taste […]

Prince Charles and his now-legal paramour, Camilla, are being trailed on Humbert Wolfe in his famous ditty: THE BRITISH JOURNALIST [Actual title: “Over the Fire”] You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to. In the intervening decades, things have […]

Most news stories live for a day and die the next.

Hooray! At long last She doesn’t quite achieve the altitude of the zingers in Clive James’s weekly columns in the Observer a quarter century ago, but then what other television critic has? Here’s a sampling of his stingers — all but one of them ledes — on subjects high and low from a collection of […]

We called him the Alito the Hun. “[I]t’s hard to imagine a more reactionary judge,” Brother Doug writes. He begins his dissection with a couple of choice cuts: Theocratic pit bull Gary Bauer, the dwarf former presidential candidate of the Christer hard right, crowed that the appointment of Alito was “a grand slam,” and crackpot […]

Dan Neil’s column in this past Sunday’s Los Angeles Times Magazine talks about the many “moments of ironic fallout” included on That moment is a long, long way from the real thing, which is not for casual viewing. There was no irony when, on “Doctor Atomic,” which has been getting see and hear it.) Conant […]

From a conscript in the Army of the Tireless: “Who Owns the Past?” edited by Kate Fitz Gibbon in collaboration with former Metropolitan Museum counsel and power lawyer Ashton Hawkins. The book, subtitled “Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law,” is to be launched tonight at the MoMA has fought the Bondi family’s efforts to […]