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Dear residents of Austin, Texas—
There are 1300 bands in town, and you will be listening to some live music. Too broke to buy badges? Not going to 6th street? Oh, that’s all right. We’ll just wait for you at the place where you get your morning coffee. That neighborhood bar? Already there. Not planning […]
From Roger Ebert:
Q. You’re gonna love this: Sciencedaily.com has an article stating, “Worker bees, wasps, and ants are often considered neuter. But in many species they are females with ovaries, who although unable to mate, can lay unfertilized eggs which turn into males if reared. For some species, such as bumble bees, this is […]
I went to a writers’ happy hour in Austin. Now, in other cities, people wanting to make small talk will ask dreaded questions like, “So what all have you published?” But not in Austin. In Austin they ask, “So do you have a card for your website?” And boy, do they ever. I walked away […]
Rhetoric has returned to Russian news. Or perhaps it has never left. In any case, here’s Lyudmila Butuzova writing an article for Moscow News1 about a survey on attitudes of people in rural Russia:
“Needless to say, dreams and reality are different things,” Project Director Svetlana Krechetova says. “But this distinct ‘joie de vivre’ group, which […]
“No Kierkegaard, please.” Via Maud.
Researcher in New Zealand discovers universal baby language, and languagehat is trying “not to be too hard-nosed about this.” Owh.
FACT #1: Borat will not be showing in Russian theaters since a film commission, reviewing the movie at the request of the studio, concluded the audiences would find it too offensive.
FACT #2: The movie was #1 movie at the US box office for two weeks now, raking in a cool $67 mill.
FACT #3: The thought […]
Maybe I’m just still reeling from Borat, but this article from the Times is priceless. I wish I got paid to write headlines like this:
NAKED MAN ARRESTED FOR CONCEALED WEAPON.
Especially when the articles come with the incredible quotes like:
”You can’t get much more concealed than that,” Horgan said.
Link to the Times.
This was the sweetest flesh I had ever tasted, including fish and fowl.
In continuation of our coverage of George Allen’s attempt at creating a political controversy over the sex bits in Webb’s books (see first post here), we now bring you the Slate quiz. Match the politican turned writer to the sex scene. Read some […]
Virginia Senate candidate George Allen, who still has not recovered from a YouTube induced malestrom of discontent over racially charged comments,* is resorting to the lowest of all mud-slinging techniques: literary criticism.
In a press release to the media that Allen had not posted to the press portion of his web site (afraid of blog links?), […]
Yesterday, we here at Project Whimwit were proud to bring you Lincoln’s Broadsword Adventure. Today, we give you Victorian burial practices, in which we learn that high end caskets came with bells attached and attendants standing at the ready to dig you right out–just in case you were napping, and not really dead.
From Vampires: A […]