He ran him over with his car. Someone is dead because of Donté Stallworth. And he went to jail for only 24 days! What! WHAT! That’s the most ridiculous prison sentence since Jean Valjean got 19 years for copping a loaf of bread (five years for what he did, the rest because he tried to [...]
Archive for August 2009
You heard about Tiger?
21 Aug 2009He lost the PGA Championship even though he led after 54 holes. What a bitch! Except he made $810.000 for four days of playing golf. I’ll be lucky to make my first $810.000 by the time I turn 50.
Sports?
20 Aug 2009For the first time, we’ll touch on the world of sports here at Tin Speaker. It’s not that I don’t like sports, it’s just that I hate America. Today I want to talk about sports. So I will. This will be a series of posts. This is just introductory. The first topic is Usain Bolt. [...]
No Deachunter (No Age, Dan Deacon and Deerhunter) at Brooklyn Bowl, 2 August 2009
13 Aug 2009After two days without posts, I feel like I owe everyone a whole lot of words. Here are a few about the Dan Deacon/No Age/Deerhunter round robin show that was supposed to be a Pool Party show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, but was moved indoors to Brooklyn Bowl. The venue change didn’t create a misnomer [...]
Right?
13 Aug 2009No post yesterday. Or the day before! Wow. I know this caused no small measure of disappointment, especially to my more devoted readers. Please know, however, that this Web log will be all the better for the delay. Some of you may know that in just nine days I will be leaving these fair shores [...]
Delving deeper
10 Aug 2009Yesterday I discussed the preponderance of New Yorker articles entitled “String Theory,” and how none of them actually concern string theory, the titles being, instead, rather tired puns — usually based on the string instruments. Well, it’s not all about the fine arts over at 4 Times Square. In case any of my fine readers’ [...]
Explorations in the New Yorker online archive
09 Aug 2009Have you ever read the abstracts of humor pieces from the New Yorker archive? Of course you haven’t done, you uncultured sot. Well, let me just point you in the right direction. Read this and tell me what you think. Pretty funny, no? I thought so, too. I’m glad we agree on the matter. I [...]
Further Paula Abdul news
08 Aug 2009Some have questioned Hornblower’s influence as a major tastemaker in the blogosphere. (Side note: Firefox recognizes neither “tastemaker” nor “blogosphere” as words. I’m switching to Chrome.) Even after past posts have influence the likes of The New Yorker, the doubters remained skeptical. But in the face of great evidence, even the most ardent non-believers must [...]
Das Cartoon Lounge ist Racist
08 Aug 2009There are two things you should be doing. One is reading The Cartoon Lounge section of the New Yorker Web site. The other is listening to “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” by Das Racist. Wait there’s a third: clicking at least one of the hyperlinks in the preceding two sentences. Seriously, I put them [...]
