- Hey hey, ho ho, Cornholio has got to go. (via Tod Goldberg)
- Led Zeppelin reuniting? Okay, who needs the alimony money?
- RIP Joe Zawinul.
- Dear Comics Industry: Please Grow Up.
- Now here’s a way to merge Rosh Hashanah with Moleskine.
- As widely reported, the New York Post will be running more book reviews.
- 1 in 3 Americans still believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11. Then again, 1 in 3 Americans also believe that the Bible should be taken literally.
- Christ, you two, get a room.
- A Curious Singularity has started a roundtable discussion of Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with My Father.” (via Matthew Tiffany)
- Is Steven Pinker “the cognitive philosopher of our generation?”
- If this MySpace page is to be believed, Wal-Mart is now asking mothers to check in their babies. Presumably, Wal-Mart has found a legitimate way to sell random babies on the open market?
- I’m no fan of Kathy Griffin, but I don’t see why these remarks needed to be censored. Indeed, the joke’s more tepid than John Lennon claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Will we see Kathy Griffin product burnings? And are we in 2007 or 1966?
- And speaking of which, here’s Jonathan Lethem on the Fifth Beatle.
- An interview with the co-creator of The Bionic Woman. (via Quiddity)
- So what do you do after a Coney Island career running around as the eponymous target in the “Shoot the Freak” booth? You go to law school.
- Only the New Yorker would find a way to get Baudrillard and Facebook in the same paragraph.
- Where are the men on TV? Anglling for your job, Rebecca, in a new reality TV show called Who Wants to Be a 3,000 Word Columnist? Stag club only, I’m afraid.
- “Ask Yahoo! is teaming up with Yahoo! Answers to bring you Ask Mike.” No, this is not what anyone asked for. When I sent in my question to Ask Yahoo!, I damn well expected Yahoo! to answer it! And now you’re telling me that some lesser being named “Mike” is the guy responsible? Who the hell is Mike? And what can Mike offer that Yahoo cannot? Are you now outsourcing?
© 2007, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
It’s a wonder Zep has been able to resist this long. This time around, though, if Page performs while sitting in a chair, it will be due to rheumatism, and not the previous night’s epic round of pharmacological abuse.
Lennon’s claim was more culture critique than self-glorification, wasn’t it? That’s how I’ve always interpreted it.