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MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “i don't know al, this
sort of novelty candidacy
didn't work
when joe walsh
tried…”
July 30, 2009 01:06AM - “so true, luluandphoebe.
so true.”
July 29, 2009 09:53AM - “kevin -
maybe
they could have used a denial
to draw out the
perpetrator,
who
know…”
July 21, 2009 12:22AM - “Quick update: a few
places, Deadspin among them,
are now
reporting that the
video…”
July 20, 2009 08:44PM - “Travis,
First,
yes, Klosterman's take on
"Chines Democracy" was
really
i…”
June 23, 2009 04:59PM
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Glenn Greenwald, You Broke My Heart
I've been reading Salon's Glenn Greenwald about as long as
I've been intently following news and politics commentary on the
web, and over the last three plus years, I've become quite a fan of
his writing. While not always entirely agreeing with his
stance on certain issues, it's tough to… 
At 2 pm yesterday afternoon, the New York Times broke
news that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz tested positive for
steroids in 2003, making them them the sixth and seventh names to
come to light as being on that list. In case you don't know,
this list is the result… Read full post »
If you don't know who the Naked Cowboy is then there's a
chance you are a true New Yorker, or maybe you've never been on a
double-decker bus tour through Manhattan. I don't remember
when exactly it was that I became aware of who the jackass in his
undies, boots… Read full post »
It's Saturday, July 18th at 5 pm and I'm sitting at work
right now because this is what happens when you're me, but that's
another story for another time. We've got something very
serious to cover right now and I won't have any distractions.
I was innocently cruising the internet w… 
There's a lot that happens in half a season of baseball
and this year is no exception. We've seen a no-hitter and an
inside-the-park home run, just in the last week. There have
been two steals of home, one major PED-related suspension, one
Cuban defection, and the biggest potentia… Read full post »
In last week's Sunday Styles section of the New York
Times, a
column ran about the new Bravo reality series "NYC Prep" which
follows the exploits of a group of five kids who attend posh
Manhattan private schools (and one who attends Stuyvesant, the
city's most selective public school). … Read full post »
Last night, through some happenstance and coincidence
and no small
amount of frustration, I spent a portion of my evening at a
reading and signing at the Barnes and Noble's in Union Square given
by a favorite author. I'm always wary of these things because
people you admire generally dis… Read full post »
To Boldly Go Where We've All Been Before
There's something very dicey about having enjoyed the latest
Star Trek movie, but I really did enjoy it a lot. It
was fun and fast, with enough screaming, fighting and imploding
planets to satisfy even the most jaded of sixteen year old summer
movie patrons. Aside from the final pr… 
You should know going in that I hate the NBA. This
isn't because I hate basketball, it's because basketball (and the
NBA) have been unkind to me. The team of my youth, the New
York Knicks, has never failed to disappoint. The team of my
present, the Brooklyn Nets, doesn't exis… 
Even though it premiered in the fall of 1994, I didn't
start watching ER until the summer of 2000; that was the
first time I had what could approximately be called a "real job"
and I arrived home every day at 5:35 in the afternoon, changed my
clothes and caught… Read full post »
These are the facts of the case.
Fact #1: In 2003, Alex Rodriguez and 103 other major league baseball players tested positive for performance enhancers. The test was conducted under a guarantee of anonymity for the purpose of determining whether wide-spread testing and punishment for positive… Read full post »
I root for the New York Football Giants and as such I've
been doing some thinking about the recent Plaxico Burress
situation. If you don't know, Burress is the star wide
receiver who shot himself in the leg while at a club when the gun
slipped from the waistband of… Read full post »
A couple of weeks ago I was just casually walking around,
minding my own business, trying to live my life. And I saw
plastered all over some scaffolding a poster advertising the
upcoming release of "Chinese Democracy," the new Guns N' Roses
album that has been seventeen years, multiple… Read full post »
Live from Fake America...
Even though few of my friends still find it relevant
enough to watch hung over on a Sunday morning, I still find myself
looking forward to Saturday Night Live nearly every week. Maybe I'm
just a sucker for sketch comedy, maybe it's just that I can't abide
all the… Read full post »
Last night I had the pleasure of going to the closing
night film of the New York Film Festival which was Darren
Aronofsky's The Wrestler. The movie is about an
aging professional wrestler, a guy who was a big star in the 80's
and is now grappling with the realities… Read full post »
Tropic Thunder is a movie
seemingly made to inspire controversy. From the very
beginning, it was easy to notice this film, because for Hollywood
the notion of no bad publicity still holds true. From a
funtional standpoint, it's hard not to notice Robert Downey Jr.
blackface, but f/… Read full post »
I was at a movie the other day when a
woman sat down next to me five minutes before the film ended.
Five minutes. And, as if that wasn’t bad enough, she
then started talking. To me. She leaned in close to me
and in a loud whisper asked… Read full post »On Legacy and a Gunslinger
Now that the news is not only official but seems to have
actually stuck, I have some words about the Brett Favre Soap Opera
that has unfolded over the past month. In case you don't care about
sports, but are reading this article anyway, here's a quick
rundown… Read full post »
King Kaufman
Joan Walsh
Kerry Lauerman
Thomas Rogers
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