Good news story of the week! Sikhs don't tend to be this wimpy: He tried to protect himself while the punches rained … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2013
Journalists: Your moral and intellectual superiors!!
Correction of the day: The resort where Newsweek's reporters celebrated the magazine's 50th anniversary was incorrectly identified as Grossinger's; it … [Read more...]
‘Sept. 17, 1982: Lincoln High’s hardest patiently wait for Metallica to form and release an album’
A loyal 5FF reader sent this photo essay along in response to [Read more...]
‘Starving’ ‘Palestinians’ Celebrate Opening of Five-Star Hotel
Snort! Hey, this thing will be great for firing rockets off the roof at Israeli civilians! … [Read more...]
‘Elizabeth Taylor, playing a prostitute in the original, became a woman ‘who tried on wigs for a living’!’
‘Ideally, a recreational drug shouldn’t make your flesh fall off your bones’
Jim Goad writes: So are the drugs really scarier these days, or are the kids maybe a little less hopeful? I’m not a kid, so I wouldn’t know. What I have learned over the decades is that when the hangover lasts … [Read more...]
‘If Michael Moore Had a Good Twin’
Janice Fiamengo reviews Gary McHale's memoir of Caledonia: McHale gave himself body and soul to the cause: he lived and breathed Caledonia for the next seven years, enduring significant hardship as a … [Read more...]
‘Oh gosh, Kathy, I hope I’m not too late to this party…’
From the comments under my "Urban Outfitter Punk Jacket" post: TV is on some nonsensical "youth" "reality" narishkeit. Son, 22, points out … [Read more...]
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Why didn't I think of that? [Read more...]
What was I just saying?
Nobody writes so well about fashion faux pas (plural?) in so few words as [Read more...]
Johnny Cash is really, clearly, obviously high in ‘Five Minutes to Live’ (1961)
TCM broadcast this a few days ago and boy, was Cash terrible. He's speaking and moving very, VERY carefully like someone afraid his own unsteadiness will show and give him … [Read more...]
Is there anything new to say about ‘Jaws’ (1975)?
I can't find the "Gilligan's Island" ep he mentioned, but the search yielded this, which was one of the eleventy trillion "Jaws" things that you were, shall we say, swimming in if you were alive in 1975: … [Read more...]