Daily Archives: March 8, 2012

11 posts

Project Runway All Stars Liveblog: Is This Season Over Yet? Edition

A forlorn, perhaps scorned lover of ScorpionThis is the last episode before the finale, chickens. Hallelujah! Our national nightmare is almost over! And not a moment too soon because you just know that when you’ve reached the challenge that has the designers designing outfits for Mortal Kombat warriors, there’s a real god damn problem.

I do want to take a moment to express complete and utter bafflement that this very same challenge brought us both Austin Scarlett’s dreamy and romantic Van Gogh-esque gown and Kenley’s bastardized Nicki Minaj fashion (or “fashion lol” as I would call it).  Oh and whatever it is that the other guys made. Who cares?

Sigh. Who cares? Let’s consume a copious amount of booze and as a loving community insult everything that these crazies do and say. Meet me in the comments at 9ET/8CT!  Continue reading →

The Grand Forks Herald’s Column Eat Beat is the Greatest Writing on the Internet

For a while, I thought John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut were America’s greatest living writers. One of the best classes I ever took in college was a Sociology of Kurt Vonnegut class. We read a bunch of sociology texts and a bunch of Vonnegut.  If you really wanted to understand mid- to late-twentieth-century American culture, you needed to read some Updike and Vonnegut. Sadly, Updike and Vonnegut are gone now. So, who is America’s greatest living writer, now? Marilyn Hagerty. She writes for the Grand Forks Herald, the local newspaper in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Her restaurant column, Eat Beat, is perhaps the greatest writing on the internet. Continue reading →

QOTD: Are You Superstitious?

As I was packing for my trip last week, I made sure to include my “race outfit.” A pair Old Navy yoga pants that have worked out great for running for me, my race shirt from the inaugural Mardi Gras Rock n Roll half marathon and my favorite head band. I am pretty sure that this outfit gives me great running power and I will run super fast.

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Barbasol Has Produced a Wonderfully Terrible Commercial For Us

Barbasol is a brand of old-timey shaving cream that I can only assume is mostly used by old school leather strap-wielding barbers named Tony who know all the local cops by their first name and do a nice side business in taking bets. This is not the brand of choice for the guy who wears mantyhose. Barbasol is for guys who aren’t quite sold yet on that new-fangled shave gel shit!

So over the past few weeks I’ve seen this new Barbasol spot in heavy rotation on Comedy Central. (Sorry, but the joker who uploaded it won’t allow embedding so you’ll have to click over.)

This ad is so awesomely bad that I felt it deserved a deeper examination.  Continue reading →

Why is Rush Limbaugh Only Now Getting Stomped On?

But you can go away now, thanks.

My (former?) Jezebellian gal pal, Robyn Pennacchia (otherwise known as NotesFromTheUnderground) wrote a blog post on Monday that got me thinking about why Rush Limbaugh’s current rank foot-in-mouth incident is making bigger waves than usual – or perhaps more accurately, making bigger waves among his advertisers than usual. (At the time of this writing, Think Progress has the number of advertisers that have dropped Limbaugh at 43.) Continue reading →

Will Greece Default? Find Out at 3 PM EST – Updated

So. It has come to this.

Plan after plan after plan has gone by the wayside, as has a Prime Minister, and there has been no resolution to Greece’s massive sovereign debt problem.  Now Greece is quite simply out of time.  After months of hysteria, we have quietly reached the edge.  It’s not the end of the Eurozone, but you can see it from here. Continue reading →