Daily Archives: September 1, 2011

11 posts

Jersey Shore Live Blog

‘Sup, guidos and guidettes?  Now I know you’ve been asking yourself, how can I celebrate all things tacky, gauche and wholly inappropriate?  Or bring out my inner slore?  Why, by joining the Jersey Shore live blog, that’s how!

Let’s get fresh to death, down some Limoncello shots, and do some good old fashioned fist-pumping.  No changing shirts till t-shirt time!  You remember the safe word, right?  You know, the one you yell out when you’ve had enough of Sitch cockblocking his one true love Pauly D?  Or when you’re DONE watching Deena make out with a girl in a desperate ploy for attention (which for Deena is Tuesday)?   You don’t?  Well, it sucks to be you. Continue reading →

Project Runway, Episode 6 Liveblog

Welcome back my friends, to another episode of Bunim/Murray Presents; The Real World, Running With Scissors!  So glad you could stop by!  Grab a drink, take a seat and hold on, because there’s really no need for seatbelts, and if you fall off your couch while watching tonight, you’re probably playing one of our classic Project Runway drinking games.  In which case, excellent job, my friend.  We all should aspire to be as committed to our craft.

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Chariots of the Gods?

On Sunday, August 21, at around 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, America’s favorite centaur, Alex Rodriguez, at last returned to the ball field after six weeks away for the repair of a torn meniscus (the meniscus, for those of you who skipped med school and went straight into shamanism, is a thing the knee requires to perform the functions that God and/or evolution made necessary to the pursuit of happiness and/or sexual encounters with human beings who may or may not have starred in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle). A-Rod’s return served as proof, perhaps, that a muscular young man can remain on the DL for only so long – and by DL, I also mean the disabled list – and also that with time and patience, a semicircular band of fibrocartilage, located between the medial condyle of the femur and the medial condyle of the tibia, can make like Billy Ray and Miley and have that painful rift mended. Continue reading →

Rare Photo Stolen from NYPL Turns up on eBay Decades Later

Theft of materials from libraries and archives is more common problem than most people realize. One of the core tenets of librarianship (which includes archivists) is to allow–as much as possible–unfettered access to information. Unfortunately for libraries, archives and the people who patronize and manage them, some take advantage of such access by stealing artifacts. It’s difficult to strike a balance between open access and absolute security; libraries and archives continue to struggle with this clash of principle and need. There are well documented cases of thieves who stole rare books for their own personal collections, but more often than not, people steal these sorts of artifacts to try to turn a profit. Continue reading →

AT&T Sued for Trying to Gobble up T-Mobile

On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice department filed an anti-trust lawsuit against AT&T in order to block its intended merger with T-Mobile which, if allowed to proceed, would have made it the largest telecom in the known universe. The Justice Department claims that allowing the merger to go through would hinder competition, lower quality services and lead to higher prices for consumers (well, duh!). In a statement, AT&T said it was “surprised.” Continue reading →