October 2010
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The children that you bear from this marriage will...
This kind of shit never happens to life partners:
The Maldivian foreign minister issued a grovelling public apology today to a Swiss couple who thought they were being blessed at an idyllic beach ceremony but were in fact being referred to as “swine” and “infidels” in the local tongue.
“You are swine,” the unwitting couple were told. “The children that...
It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday, and a short round woman in a floral skirt is wheeling two battered suitcases along H Street NE. She stops beneath a painting of a happy dog and heaves a deep sigh. Then she pushes through the double doors of the Palace of Wonders and says hi to Brad, the bartender.
“This place is so clean,” she says.
“I’ve had a lot of time to clean,” Brad says.
The woman walks down...
“To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to...”
– Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the most humorously offensive line from the most humorously offensive blog ever written by anyone ever. Thank you, Marie Claire.
“In 14 years of marriage, I have always been tempted to take the back door....”
– This quote appeared under a video making fun of the person who left the comment
“Literarily, in order to sell people on a lot of the subject matter, it just...”
– Ummm
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The eloquence of Chuck Lane
This month marks the one-year anniversary of my first and only nasty email from Charles Lane, now of the Washington Post, once of The New Republic (from which he resigned shortly after Stephen Glass told all those goddamn lies). This event isn’t marked on my calendar, but I was reminded of it while reading Moe Tkacik’s brilliant take-down of Lane at the Washington City Paper. (Read it....
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