Something called the Harris Family Band, or better known by their stage name, First Love, which seems to be a modern day conservative Partridge Family — sans bell-bottoms and cool mom — has created an ode to Rick Santorum. Continue reading
Today’s sausage is all chuckle. Continue reading
Last time on Dance Moms, we went to Fire and Ice, where everyone knows our names! The dancers kicked butt, Abby yelled at everyone, and the Candy Apples went to a funeral for their dignity. Ready or not, here come the Dance Moms! Continue reading
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
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.
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
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
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
Thursday is the best day! Make it a good one, Crasstalkers. Don’t forget about the Crasstalk Casserole Constest! Who will win? Who will be robbed! Continue reading