Speaking as a person with some experience with alcohol, I watch "Mad Men" with incredulity. The characters typically take their booze neat, usually at two fingers to a glass, and seem to start well before lunch. Yet there is surprisingly…
Alexyss K. Tylor had a program on Atlanta public access TV starting in the 1990s. The woman listening here is her mother. There is no reason she couldn't be a comedy club star, although I can't be sure she intends…
  Dr. William Carlos Williams: Sept. 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963. The stanzas are shaped like wheelbarrows..
My good friend Tom Shales won the Pulitzer Prize while writing for The Washington Post from 1972 to 2010. Sixteen years after the article below appeared, when Gene Siskel fell ill we needed a substitute on the first shows Gene…
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The YouTube poster, "dondrapersayswhat," says this: "Clips from 295 movies used to recreate Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back, because I'm just that much of a nerd. Click the closed captioning button for movie titles."
It has become a ritual for me to enter the New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. I won only once, long ago in April 2011, and the magazine's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, wrote a blog about that. In his blog…
I don't like to link to music vidos that are only slideshows, without live performance footage. But this first clip is my favorite Burnside song, and I think it's appropriate for hard times. R. L. Burnside on Wikipedia.
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