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Exhausted fingers
“In yesterday’s column about badminton, I misspelled the name of Guatemalan player Kevin Cordon. I apologize. In my defense, I want to note that in the same column I correctly spelled Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak, Poompat Sapkulchananart and Porntip Buranapraseatsuk. So by the time I got to Kevin Cordon, my fingers were exhausted. “ -Dave Barry, correcting a […]
How much of a film addict are you?
Do you know how many of IMDB’s top 250 films you have seen? There’s now an easy way to find out. Click HERE to see how much of a film addict you are. Post your score in the comments below. (Hat Tip: Slash Film)
Three unfortunate children
Adolf Hitler Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Campbell and JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. Those are the names of three unfortunate children – aged three and under – who live in central New Jersey. The kids have been in the news lately because their parents weren’t able to get 3-year-old Adolf Hitler’s name put on a birthday cake […]
Pepperoni and cheese defense
Armed robbers trying to stiff pizza men in Florida beware. There’s a dude out there with a pizza who knows how to use it. Pizza delivery man Eric Lopez Devictoria got himself out of a potentially deadly situation recently by reportedly using the piping hot pizza he was delivering as a weapon, according to this article […]
Six-figure YouTubers
Like eBay, YouTube has arrived to the point where at least some users are quitting their day jobs and hauling in six figures from an advertising partnership with the Google-owned video site. Yes, you read that right. Six figures. The New York Times tracks the phenomenon in an article titled “YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money.” […]
Elsewhere: I Drink Your Milkshake
David Sessions (Patrol Magazine) offers a candid view of that goofy “I Drink Your Milkshake!” catch-phrase from “There Will Be Blood” in one of the more interesting year in review-type articles you’re likely to read in the coming weeks. Everything went according to schedule. When There Will Be Blood opened in New York and Los Angeles on […]
Elsewhere: Thoreau’s worst nightmare
What do books like “The Year of Living Biblically,” gimmick documentary films like “Supersize Me” and bloggers like No Impact Man all have in common? Beyond the obvious self-control and discipline it takes to make a name for oneself sacrificing something for the sake of a compelling story, the people behind books, films and blogs of this nature all have […]
Elsewhere: O Say Can You Buy
Nicole McClelland ended up “hungry, broke and half-naked” after only a week trying to buy only American-made goods. She wrote about the experience for Mother Jones. I had been cursing up and down the aisles at the grocery store for half an hour when I finally found a can of black beans claiming to be “100% […]