Wednesday Links

Silence of the City posts stories that were rejected from The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section. Good stuff.

SweetJesusIHateBillO’Reilly.com. Pretty much what it sounds like.

I don’t know what to make of Hot Ghetto Mess. This website “holds up a mirror to the black community” in the interest of self examination… or, it perpetuates tired old stereotypes about booties, hos, pimps, crackheads. I’m not sure what my opinion is on this one. I will say this for the website – it’s where I came across this fabulous poodle photo, which I think we can all agree is fantastic.

Hot Ghetto Mess / I Can Has Cheezburger hybrid website spinoff project, anyone? We can get it started right now – anyone have caption ideas?

Wednesday Links

Why am I so lazy on Wednesdays? Don’t ask questions, just click.

Hot Off The Blogosphere:

This hilarious blog post gives you the juicy/frightening details about a new over the counter weight loss drug. Disturbing, grotesque material covered in a really, really funny way.

Have you been staying up nights since the series finale of The Sopranos? Feeling a little empty, unfulfilled? Humming Journey all the time and being unable to concentrate at work because you’re unsure of Tony and Meadow’s ultimate fate? If so, get a life. But also, watch this great alternate ending. Best of all, the meaning of the yello cat is finally made clear…

Also, there is a really interesting piece in the Readings section of this month’s Harpers. “Variations on a Mirage,” by Edward Luttwak of CSIS, has been stuck in my head for several days. I’ll be writing more about it later but maybe you should read it to and then we can have a really engaging and intellectual discussion via comment thread, and it would be so cool. Anyway, in addition to having a thoughtful and unusual take on the situation(s) in the Middle East (Iran in particular), the piece has tons of great funny-but-serious lines, like,
“There are awed descriptions of the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard, inevitably described as “elite,” who do ineed strut around as if they have won many a war but who have actually fought only one — against Iraq, which they lost.” I like it when policy wonks are snarky.

And, saving the best for last, I introduce to you Bitter Laughter, the blog of one of my favorite pals, Timo. Timo is very smart and funny but watch out, because he is also a big literature nerd and is likely to befuddle you with allusions to Ulysses and/or Finnegan’s Wake at inappropriate times. Consider yourself warned.

Tongue in cheek? Or foot in mouth?

When I am not busy doodling on the internetz, I do some work editing college and grad school application essays. Sometimes, I have charming and helpful correspondence with the clients. When I get lucky, they send me emails like this:

“Sorry about that. Typos pleague my life.”

Yes, they certainly do.