Inverted Soapbox Heartily Endorses…
…Archer! if you’re not watching this show, please take a moment to consider what other non-brilliant crap you’re stuffing your brain with and whether watching attention whores duke it out for various...
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…a record-breaking 90-degree day in April. wonder wheel! I don’t have much to add to that, save for the fact that 90 degrees beaming down from above and the sand between your toes is enough to chase...
View ArticleFriday Happy/Inverted Soapbox heartily endorses…
Now here’s an advertising mechanism for newspapers that we should support. The Newspaper Picture festivalat Film Forum is an amazing act of collective werd-nerd nostalgia that, I hope, is more wistful...
View ArticleInverted Soapbox heartily endorses (Northside Festival edition)….
… these new bands that immediately entered the download queue after this weekend’s sweat-stained beardstock Northside Festival. Thanks to the good people at the L Magazine for putting on the fest and...
View ArticleThe Daniel Schorr memorial links roundup
Daniel Schorr in 1972 (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty) I know we spend a lot of time here memorializing the vestiges of the golden days of print journalism, be they real or a collective wistful fiction. It...
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taking a long bike ride through your local park on a hot summer Sunday soundtracked the entire way by a Michael Jackson concert. sh'amon, via Found in Brooklyn If I had to guess, I’d say this was...
View ArticleThe Rally to Restore Sanity
distilled into three signs: I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it The event was perfectly ridiculous. And in honor of election day, here’s another favorite: at another rally, this...
View ArticleFace it, Sulzberger: You just hit the jackpot
I have to say, though I don’t read Maureen Dowd as much as I used to, I can’t help but be a huge fan of this: Yes: that’s Maureen Dowd, the comic book hero, in The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of...
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…Comedy Death Ray Radio! If modern comedy has a movement against the oppression of staid and soul-crushing pop comedy, CDR is its Radio Free Europe. If you aren’t listening to it, your life is...
View Article…is in a book
Hey, I’m in a book! My hangover remedy from this interview more than a year ago made the cut for Stuart’s new guide to living on the cheap worldwide. I think this is my frist book appearance (which is...
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