December 2010
All Work, No Play: Life of a Playboy Playmate →
In tomorrow’s Inside Track, I write about how life at the Playboy Mansion just seems…gross. In the link above, I take to my blog to further ponder this subject: Why would girls give up their freedom to have sex with an 80 year old man?
urlesque:
Babelgum Comedy has brilliantly compared this dark time for America’s frat boys and hipsters to the Prohibition era by parodying the situation with a new spinoff of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” called “Four Loko Empire.”
More: ‘Four Loko Empire’ Is a Portrait of Our Times
nbcnightlynews:
Brian Williams’ media story of 2010: NY Times ‘discovers’ Brooklyn
LOVE the BriWi. He’s a funny bitch.
Fall of the Day: Figure Skating Edition
we’ve never shown this choice on ‘16 and Pregnant’ up until...
– Dr. Drew, FOR THE WIN! on “No Easy Decision.” I love this man.
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A History Lesson
mom: Grandma had such bad osteoporosis. She broke her back once.
me: how did she break her back!??
mom: One too many Manhattans at the Avon Golf Club. She fell in the ballroom.
Shaq at the Boston Pops →
Check out my adventure stalking Shaq as he conducted the Boston Pops last night. After leaving, I promptly fell on my ass in the snow outside Our House East, a bar which had stolen my dignity before, as I was kicked out of it twice during college. No, not for drunkenness- Once between I tried to bring an entire pizza in, and the second time because I refused to give up the karaoke microphone to...
librarianista:
President Obama reads his own book, Of Thee I Sing, to second-graders at Long Branch Elementary School in Arlington, VA.
A Scene from a Newspaper Cafeteria
Random hoodrat who came into the building to go to the credit union: Excuse me, do you work upstairs in advertising?
me: uh, no, in editorial.
hoodrat: oh, well ugh, you should write a story about me.
me: i should?
hoodrat: Yeah, you should write about this hot, single guy you met in the cafeteria, with this killer physique and no girlfriend. (slicks hair back with fingers)
me: .........
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Check out my mum on The Early Show!
The one and only OTMary was on today’s “The Early Show” on CBS!
That’s my mom, by the way, and here she is showing why we refer to her as OTMary: she’s an occupational therapist extraordinaire.
Unfortunately, CBS took a bit of a negative slant to the piece (when it could have been much more positive when discussing the...
The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual...
– Ryan Gosling, in an interview with Movieline over the MPAA’s rating of Blue Valentine as NC-17. He. Is. The. Bomb.
So you want to be a journalist?
Yes, I’m aware every writer i know is posting this today, but it’s too funny not to.
Giveaway Giveaway Giveaway! →
How much stuff am I giving away over at my work blog? Over $100 worth of goodies from Boston’s Crush Boutique! Check it out, and enter to win. All you have to do is tell me what your favorite holiday movie is…