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Entries from May 2009

[interviewing rhett miller]

May 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, Rhett Miller played a free show in Austin at Shady Grove, which is kind of a family friendly, hippie burger place that’s been in South Austin since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Which was weird, because it’s not really the sort of place you expect to see even a moderate star [...]

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Tags: music · writing

[a new winner]

May 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Up until today, my favorite obliviously stupid post from a right-wing blogger came in the form of a post by Glenn Beck on his website called, “How to win the argument de jour with logic and facts” that promised to give his followers the rhetorical tools to dismantle anyone foolish enough to suggest that, like, [...]

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Tags: america · making fun of idiots · politics · the internet

[defending lily allen from esquire]

May 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

So, Stephen Marche has an essay in the latest issue of Esquire called Where Have All the Loose Women Gone? that, er, bravely explores the topic of why the women Stephen Marche wants to sleep with, or expects that Esquire readers want to sleep with, seem to be less interested in doing it than in [...]

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Tags: america · gender · music