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Tina Fey on Vanity Fair cover: You betcha!
Tweet Seldom do I see anything in the grocery checkout line that causes me to smile, but I really got a hoot out of the Vanity Fair cover with Tina Fey. It was enjoyable on several levels, from clever...
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Start your week off right: The Office in Middle Earth
Tweet I missed this Saturday night, but had it brought to my attention this morning via Facebook. I’m not a huge fan of the three-feature-film version of “The Hobbit,” but I love the original “Office,”...
View ArticleThe New Yorker: ‘Ayn Rand reviews children’s movies’
TweetI really got a kick out of this feature in The New Yorker headlined, “Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies.” Excerpt: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” An industrious young woman neglects to charge...
View ArticleNow it can be told: A normal day in the life of a cat
Tweet Ain’t technology wonderful? I post this for Cindi Scoppe and my other friends who love cats. Just to set them straight. Maybe they’ll learn. Some may claim this was trick photography, but my son...
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‘The Interview,’‘American Sniper,’ and ‘Selma’
TweetI’ve recently written about three movies — ‘The Interview,’ ‘American Sniper‘ and ‘Selma‘ — that I had not seen (which kind of limited what I had to say about them). This past week, I had planned...
View ArticleArab Spring, Arab Schmring. How’d you like a piece of $25 million?
TweetA colleague found this in her spam folder, and knew I’d enjoy it. I pass it on in the same spirit: Hello, I am Mr Hosni Mubarak former leader of Egyptian am currently released from prison...
View ArticleHighlight from SNL special: Presidential impressions
TweetI didn’t get to watch all of the whole 40th-Anniversary “Saturday Night Live” special last night… OK, tell the truth, I could have watched it, but gave up on it during an interminable edition of...
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‘Everything You Hate About Advertising in One Fake Video That’s Almost Too Real’
Tweet‘Using a specific ratio of Asian people to Black people to Women to White men…’ Something fun that I posted on the ADCO blog earlier… An explanation, from AdWeek: Well, this is hilarious on a few...
View ArticleOK, now I’m starting to get a little interested in this net neutrality thing
TweetMeet the Department of the Internet! We'll be handling the Internet you love, but at the speed of government. https://t.co/xDIjKdpete — Dept. Of Internet (@Dept_Internet) February 23, 2015 On one...
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Jon Stewart’s replacement, Trevor Noah
Tweet Any thoughts on Jon Stewart’s announced replacement, Trevor Noah? I mean, beyond the purely superficial sort of hail-the-Obama-of-talk-show-hosts observation? I don’t know what I think, because...
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Some tips on how to talk while female
TweetI got a kick out of Alexandra Petri’s column in The Washington Post, which Cindi shared today in The State, headlined “13 Tips on How To Speak While Female.” It was based on advice she’d heard on...
View ArticleI like this kind of humor…
Tweet… which my old friend Jim Foster knows, which is why he brought it to my attention… Lindsey Graham Can’t Believe He Left CD With Campaign Song At Red Roof Inn http://t.co/JVf9xvJVm3...
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Funniest SNL skit ever… to me… at least on paper…
Tweet I say “to me” because it was inside humor; it could not possibly have been as funny to someone who has not sat through thousands of news meetings just like the one portrayed, and suffered just...
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Imagining Trump as the ‘Hemingway of Twitter’
TweetThis pretty much cracked me up. One of Donald Trump’s more recent boasts was that “Somebody said I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.” So The Washington Post had some fun imagining what...
View ArticleWeekend’s best video: GOP intro and ‘Bern Your Enthusiasm’
Tweet Some of you may think the best thing on TV was a football game, but I beg to differ. The above and the below beat that by a mile. As wonderful as good satire (below) can be, in this year it’s...
View Article‘Five Masculine Moments’
Tweet OK, twice in one week I’m succumbing to the temptation to share stuff sent out on mass emails. And yet again, as with the dog picture, it’s from Samuel Tenenbaum, who forwarded it with the...
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Donald Trump, intellectual
Tweet A friend shared this with me. It’s pretty funny. I don’t think it was peer-reviewed. How could it be? Who is great enough to presume to be Trump’s peer? You can go look at the whole thing, but if...
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The return of Jon Stewart
Tweet For those of you who were fans — he’s scruffy, but he’s back. The part where he shows clips of Fox News people praising Trump for things they criticized Obama for is pretty good…
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Just in time, a comforting message from Her Majesty
Tweet Since Friday night, my wife and I have been semi-bingeing (I think we’ve seen five episodes so far) on “The Crown,” the new series from Netflix. So it seems a delightful coincidence that Samuel...
View ArticleI miss having a president big enough to laugh at himself
TweetW is all of us with a poncho. pic.twitter.com/2WsYj4EKme — Brody Logan (@BrodyLogan) January 20, 2017
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