A superhero needs a slogan. So I came up with this one: “I know you ain’t trying to mess with my bitches, fool…” Build your own hero here.
April 27, 2002
Reflections on Summer Camp (with some stuff thrown in about memory)
In 1974, or thereabouts, my parents sent me off to Camp Mildale, a Jewish day camp sprung from a cleft in one of Maryland
April 26, 2002
“If it races on a track, then you owe me some jack!”
“High profile attorney Johnnie Cochran is taking on NASCAR, claiming the sanctioning body has a monopoly over stock car racing,” ESPN reports. God I hate that guy. And I don’t even follow NASCAR.
April 26, 2002
“If it races on a track, then you owe me some jack!”
“High profile attorney Johnnie Cochran is taking on NASCAR, claiming the sanctioning body has a monopoly over stock car racing,” ESPN reports. God I hate that guy. And I don’t even follow NASCAR.
April 26, 2002
Do Your Boys Hang Low (or whip furiously against your thighs)?
Some Halls of Fame I can
April 26, 2002
Exit, Stage Left
Some final notes on the D.C. “Peace-through-Ignorance, Hatred, and Oddly Place Piercings” rally — this time from some magazines located left of center: Sarah Wildman’s “Protesting Too Much,” (TNR) and Richard Just’s “Upping the Anti” (TAP). …Just a quick observation: If you’re marching for “peace” and the The American-Freakin’-Prospect thinks you’re a bit creepy, cooky, and altogether ooky…well, it’s time to get yourself fixed, if you know what I mean.
April 25, 2002
The Anti-Urkel
“Why, the day he was dropped from his mommy’s ass, he slapped his pappy’s face and said, ‘From now on, cocksucker, I’m runnin’ this place.’” …So sayeth the Dolemite, whose The Return of the Dolemite 2002 — the latest in the legendary B-Movie series — is due out soon (alas, straight to video). Man, did I ever love the 70s blaxploitation flicks… Richard Roundtree, Melvin Van Peebles, Jim Kelly, Bernie
April 25, 2002
UN-deniably UN-fit
From Reason’s Daily Brickbat: Screwing the Poor (4/22/02) UN peacekeepers and international aid workers in Africa are demanding sex from the people they are supposed to be helping, reports the BBC. If a woman wants food for her family, she may have to sleep with a staffer to get it. That’s if she’s lucky. Sometimes the workers demand favors from a family’s children before giving them food or other aid.