Got up to MOCA Grand this past weekend to enjoy the Weegee: Naked Hollywood show. (Pictures of crowds waiting for celebrities were by far our favorites. His distorted faces of celebrities left us cold–we’ve seen so many of them by now, and could only give him intellectual rather than emotional props for having basically invented [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2012
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It wasn’t supposed to actually make me think, was it? It was just supposed to let us gawk and point at Rob Lowe in a porny mustache? But there I was on the couch, prepared only for empty brain calories and larfs, when I got whomped back so hard I almost fell out of my [ Read More ]
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I have brought it to my own attention that I didn’t even know what damn week it was. The post title has been updated accordingly. 1. The Dowager Countess. If there is ever a week that she does not top, kindly shewt me dead. 2. Lady Mary comes roaring into second, from last. While I [ Read More ]
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Habitues of Downton, in Order of Bestness, Updated Rankings! 1. The Dowager Countess. 2. The evil footman, who is evil–and yet a proper class warrior??!?!# 3. The evil lady’s maid, who is evil, yet conflicted. 4. The one sister with the lips. 5. The other sister who it turned out wasn’t as useless as it looked [ Read More ]
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I didn’t mind when Google invaded my privacy in however many ways. Hey! It’s the Internet! I can look up the answer to whatever asinine question rears itself in my head! And since I worked for 20 years at alt-weeklies, where in exchange for our awesome free content, you got served up ads, I know [ Read More ]
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You know what I hate? Besides the rest of it? Arts commissions! “But Commie Girl!” you’re whining in your usual fuddle, “Arts commissions are full of people who care about art and want to beautify our city! How could you take your usual shiv to them?” Easy! Arts commissions are full of stuck-up bureaucrats enforcing [ Read More ]
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“Office of the Presidency, respect it, blah blah whatever you’re supposed to say right here blah,” but I hope I would have wagged a finger in W.’s face if I’d had the opportunity. So good for Jan Brewer for stepping to Bama. And yet: She is among the more delusional of our Tea Party [ Read More ]
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1. The Dowager Countess. 2. The valet. 3. The blonde chick who’s into the valet. 4. The redheaded chick who left to be a secretary last season. 5. The evil lady’s maid, who is evil. 6. The butler and the housekeeper (tie!) who are decent and weird. 7. The one sister with the lips. 8. [ Read More ]
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Perhaps, like me, you didn’t know nor care too much about SOPA/PIPA (Stop the Online Piracy Act, and the other one), but believed your friends on the left when they hyperventilated that it would be the end of the Internet, and thus the world. (And like me you noticed their keening wails when every one [ Read More ]
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