Vanity Fair a long story online about the meltdown of Iceland’s economy. It’s a facinating piece about how a famously reticent, frugal people managed to create a financial bubble that is certain to go down in the history books alongside the Holland’s tulip craze. Although the autho...

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The late, great Phil Hartman died ten years ago today. The people at Comedy Central have posted a retrospective. My favorite bit remains this line (as Troy McClure from Simpsons): “You may remember me from such public service films as Designated Drivers: The Life-Saving Nerds.”...

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A new Raiders of the Lost Ark film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, will be released this soon, with Harrison Ford reprising the starring role. Ford turns 66 (!) years old in June. With that in mind I’d like to suggest a few titles that might be appropriate for the nex...

Don’t ever block traffic in Broward County, Florida. You just might end up deep-fried if you do. The Miami Herald has the story: The nine-foot alligator that was cornered and captured Tuesday morning after a traffic-stopping appearance at U.S. 441 and Bailey Road was sold to a processing facil...

Here are a few random details from the concert I saw Monday evening at the 9:30 Club in downtown (way downtown) Washington: Shane MacGowan address the audience: “Ish Gorge Bluhh enn da houth? Ah’d lahkh tah dedicught thish sung to him. Iht’s culled, ‘Ah Pear uh Brown Izahs.&#...

While I’m working out at the gym earlier today, one of the trainers, Rodney, approaches me. “You write for a newspaper, right, Sean?” Yeah. “Okay, I was wondering if you could help me out. Actually I was wondering if you could do something for my ex-wife. She’s not happ...

J. Peter Freire has a hilarious take-down of Geraldo Rivera’s latest book (Not that one; this one) over in the American Spectator: Being Hispanic has only benefitted me. I can tan. I don’t look like a total ass when I dance. I can roll my “r”s in a sophisticated way. Surround...

Cracked.com has what maybe the definitive year-end wrap-up of 2007: Seven Things We Should Pretend Never Happened. It’s all there, from the Pats’ domination of football … It was around this time that the Patriots started beating the living shit out of every single opponent they fac...