January 2011
8 posts
“The engaging Ms. Chua has captured in perfect synthesis the two things...”
– Gerard Baker on the ‘Tiger Mom’ phenomenon. Whatever you think of her book, you have to admit Amy Chua is a media genius.
WatchThe New Yorker this week has a column on all the things you can rent. It turns out there is rentafriend.com, ” a website that allows you to rent local Friends from all over the world.” There’s 307,000 friends to rent! What I cannot get over about the website is they always capitalize Friend, as if to distinguish real friends from Rent A Friends.
When you read the website,...
“I don’t go to Brooklyn. I’m allergic to hip. Maybe they should make...”
– Mayor Bloomberg, as quoted by the New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs column
important book to read
The Pumpkin Butter & Smart Balance Conspiracy: America’s Most Nefarious Pot
The mainstream media isn’t covering this controversy, but thankfully our nation’s self-publishing authors are hard at work. Have you ever wondered what exactly is pumpkin butter and why is there allegedly no butter in the pumpkin? Did you know that Smart Balance is in fact Vick’s Vapor Rub? ...
pretending im unemployed and have a trust fund...
The schedule:
- 10 a.m. Eat breakfast at Five Leaves. Mingle with all the other trust fund freelancers unemployeds. 20 buck breakfasts sure are worth it. - 11 a.m. Listen to WNKU’s top 89 of 2010. Play video games. Read some blogs. What else am I suppose to do? - 1:30 p.m. Swim laps. - 2:30 p.m. Find lunch on Bedford. - 3:00 p.m. Lie on couch and listen to music. - 7:00 p.m. Chili and beer...
