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Sports
December 16, 2008
Stating the Obvious
Recession and print-death be damned—this week's Sports Illustrated is surprisingly good, with arresting essays on Baron Davis and Russian sports moguls. But that doesn't mean it's perfect.
Sports
December 15, 2008
An Interview with the Heisman Pundit
In the interminable stretch in between the conference-championship games and big-bowl season, there's only one truly exciting event for college-football fans. Sure, various coaching carousel machinations are fun to watch—Gene Chizik back to Auburn? Seriously?—but for sheer hype and politicking, nothing beats the run-up to the Heisman Trophy presentation. This year produced one of the closest votes in history, so we asked Chris Huston, who runs the meticulous and often prescient blog HeismanPundit, to give us his thoughts on the race and its aftermath.
Politics
December 15, 2008
International Foot Faults
While it’s true that hurling projectiles at a world leader's head during a press conference is bad manners in any culture, the fact that the offending objects flying in Bush's direction during a recent Iraqi press conference were shoes is particularly meaningful—and thus insulting—in Arab culture. That's because most Arabs consider shoes and feet to be unclean, and pretty much anything to do with them is considered to be disrespectful. The shoe-throwing is the latest in a long line of foot-related international incidents.
Politics
December 10, 2008
Cashing In on Hope
In what might very well go down as the worst memorabilia promotion in post-election history, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested for attempting to sell Barack Obama's freshly vacant U.S. Senate seat as a limited edition keepsake. Blagojevich, who had reportedly been subject to a good Sopranos-style wire-tapping for a month leading up to the sting, was recorded saying ridiculously illegal things such as, "Unless I get something real good [for Senate candidate 1], shit, I'll just send myself, you know what I'm saying," and that "[the Senate seat] is a fucking valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing."
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Non-Motivational
December 8, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns December 12
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series event will insert itself into the Lower East Side on Friday, December 12, at 8 p.m. Speaking on Entrepreneurship will be alt-porn starlet Baby Sinead; Lux Alptraum, editor of Gawker Media's sex industry blog, Fleshbot.com; and Andy Fair, gay start-up veteran and editor of Dick Magazine.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
World
December 4, 2008
Hopejackers, Unite!
Are you a public figure or prominent organization whose prospects look dim? Do you feel the need for a little hope, and maybe, just maybe, more than a little change? Then it's high time you consider hitching your wagon to the star of the champion of change, the harbinger of hope, President-elect Barack Obama! Obama's coattails are, apparently, as long as his rhetoric is grandiose.
Media
December 4, 2008
Party Like It's 1984
Need a shorthand expression for the increasing loss of privacy in the digital age? How about a single word to summarize the paradoxical messages espoused by someone in a position of power? Or an easy way to characterize a government that oversteps its bounds? Lazy journalists have been partying like it's 1984 with their reliance on the misused cliché "Orwellian."
Arts
December 3, 2008
CNN LOL @ GN'R
As if Chinese Democracy weren't ridiculous enough already, the decades-in-the-making (we'd say "long-awaited," but we don't know of anyone who was waiting for it) Guns N' Roses album is now the subject of a lawsuit between Axl Rose's hair metal "band" and Dr. Pepper. The lawsuit—which relates to a promotion that went wrong when Dr. Pepper's website crashed—led to a CNN piece that, frankly, is worthy of its subject matter.
Internet
December 3, 2008
What Britney and Brittney Say about America
Once again, the top search term in America (at least according to the flawed lists compiled by search engines like Yahoo!) is "Britney Spears." What does that tell us about America? Not much that we don't already know. But a new site that mashes up data from the Google search API with information from the US Census is quite revealing.
Sports
December 3, 2008
Can You Say "Sloppy Seconds"?
If it weren't for Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery's big mouth and penchant for bedding celebrities, the nation might not have known that a hockey game took place on Tuesday night. Instead, we now know that one did occur, a few hours after Avery told assembled media this: "I just wanted to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about."
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