Just finished reading Obedience by Will Lavender. While the book was so-so, it did get me thinking again about Milgram's Experiments. Take a look at this:
Scary.
Guess Who's Back?
Or, Guess Who's Not Black? The new Culture Gabfest on Slate talks about Eminem's new album... and they raise an interesting point. Part of the fun of the rap scene is listening to rappers diss each other (Jay-Z vs Naz, etc etc). Eminem, being a white dude, is too scared/timid/white to diss the (black) rappers who diss him, so he saves his dissing for easy targets like Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and so on. Which is about as brave as... erm... shouting rude words at fish in a barrel.
The Cultural Gabfest is here. Click "Save As" to download.
The Cultural Gabfest is here. Click "Save As" to download.
Oy Gevalt!
From New York magazine: The Evolution of Jewish Humor. Even a goy like me can appreciate this...
Well, That Explains 'Savage Garden' Then..
The funniest article I've read today is here.
The funniest, most musical, most can't-read-it-out-loud-in-public sentence I've read all week is this: "Notably, the first one was crushed by an evil German bulldyke prostitute using her hoo-ha."
The funniest, most musical, most can't-read-it-out-loud-in-public sentence I've read all week is this: "Notably, the first one was crushed by an evil German bulldyke prostitute using her hoo-ha."
And There I Thought Jens Lehmann Was Crazy...
I was flipping through the Soccernet archives for old columns by Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger (the best soccer writer ever, bar none), and I came across this... The funniest sentence I've read online all week:
"Three years later, in 1999, he grabbed Dortmund's Andreas Möller by the ear, delivered a kung-fu styled kick aimed at Stephane Chapuisat and then pretended to bite Heiko Herrlich in the neck - all in one game."
"Three years later, in 1999, he grabbed Dortmund's Andreas Möller by the ear, delivered a kung-fu styled kick aimed at Stephane Chapuisat and then pretended to bite Heiko Herrlich in the neck - all in one game."
How Wolverine Could Have Been Better
All they had to do was play reruns of the animated show.
Same goes for X3.
Same goes for X3.
Wolverine
And there I thought I was the only one who thought X-Men: Origins: Wolverine was a load of toilet. The Spoilers at Slate hated it too. As an Origins movie, wasn't this one supposed to fill in the characters' back story? That's, like, its job, right? So then why did I have to a) already know the Wolverine origins mythology, and b) go look things up on Wikipedia before I could figure out what was supposed to be going on?
Champions League
It's easy to be wise after the fact. But the flag-wavy, chest-poundy English press managed to look foolish before the fact with their Champion League Previews... as lovingly recorded by WSC.
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