January 2012

John Mulaney Chain-(y?) Letter

January 31, 2012

I’ve devised the ultimate way to filter the people out of your life with whom you will never enjoy yourself. Buy John Mulaney’s New In Town comedy special Systematically lend it to each of your friends, telling them that if they don’t watch the whole thing and find it paralyzingly funny, you need not speak again. [...]

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Can I Get A What What?

January 25, 2012

Yeah, it’ll be everywhere before the end of business today – end of the hour? – but this is making me cry, third watch in succession. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. Her-on. (Considered Pause) Knowing nod. “Herring.”

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What’s A Twitter Follower Get You?

January 25, 2012

Noah Kravitz is getting sued by his former employer for taking his twitter followers with him to his new gig. The case is going to set a precedent for What a Twitter Follower Is Worth? I was particularly fascinated since I just had a “friend” offered an incentive based contract where pay would increase the more [...]

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GO YOU HUSKIES! REDUX

January 24, 2012

THERE’S A PIECE UP ON BALLnROLL RIGHT NOW THAT I WROTE, ENTITLED;  GO YOU HUSKIES! (I’d previously posted a link) THERE’S NO HARD FEELINGS BUT, AFTER A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ON USE OF PROFANITY AND ON ‘OUTING’ NBA PLAYERS AS KIND OF DIM AND DICKISH, I’VE POSTED IT AS I ACTUALLY WROTE IT BELOW. (FOR THE RECORD: [...]

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A Satisfied Fool

January 23, 2012

Karl Pilkington’s “Satisfied Fool” was the bit that hooked me on Ricky Gervais’ slightly simian sidekick. He’s “written” a documentary around the idea – the central thesis – that the smarter you are, the less happy you will be. It happened for me when I saw him playing ‘rope-a-dope’ with heady feminist heavyweight Germaine Greer. Pilkington’s hovering behind [...]

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Go You Huskies!

January 16, 2012

I’m writing the occasional article for a Basketball And Fashion Lifestyle Magazine called BALLnROLL. Go You Huskies! is about my experience working for an NBA team, the business of basketball and how the name and look of the Toronto Raptors is so horrifically gay that it’s an insult to cartoonishly flamboyant, over-the-top, cock-sock wearing gay dudes everywhere [...]

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Best Of The Best Ofs ’11

January 13, 2012

I might’ve pushed some or all of these at some point but, I can’t do a ‘best of’ list until I’ve picked over everybody else’s.. ; Brett Dennen – Sydney (I’ll Come Running) Maino ft. Swizz Beatz – Million Bucks Bright Eyes – Shell Games* Gardens & Villa – Star Fire Power We Are Augustines [...]

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Class-hole

January 10, 2012
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Literally, Everything’s Gonna Stop Them..

January 2, 2012

I was grooving to the sweet, sweet sounds of Starship… y’know, midday Monday.. and I noticed there was a montage of human misery and defeat from the show “Intervention” playing out behind the music. Way to to wayward people! We all win by your gleeful grinning to camera as the group of you aim the [...]

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