Today we cracked the spine of a Martha Stewart tell-all book, leaving many of you pondering the nature of this WASPiest of WASPs.
Twenty year-old Jennifer Mercado was a juror on a credit card thief's case. So she stole a fellow juror's credit card. And used it on her lunch hour. And came back to court with the stuff she bought. Winner.
[This reveler overdid it a bit on the flair at the St. Patrick's Day Parade along Fifth Ave today. We're sure he didn't skimp on the Guinness afterward either.
Infamously error-prone Times television columnist Alessandra Stanley earned herself a double correction today. More »
Last year, the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner featured the comedian John Hodgman.
Most countries have national colors, but many are shared. As a result, Britain chose a deep, rich shade of green to distinguish itself in competitive endeavors from rivals who had already claimed red, white and blue.
Parallel Lines is a project by from Ridley Scott Associates that will be released April 8. It's a neat premise!
Five directors were each challenged to create short films in different genres using the same dialogue.
From Washington Post: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is "teaming up with Columbia University lecturer David Eisenbach to write "One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents and First Ladies Shaped America," due in 2011 from Palgrave."
Bob Harris, the eight-time Jeopardy champ who wrote a terrific Peru travelogue a couple of weeks ago for Boing Boing gave a great talk about the culture of joy as an international language. It's on YouTube now.
Last year I was asked by Web Directions North, a gathering of assorted bigshots from Google, Yahoo!, etc.
I've been a huge fan of Robbie Conal ever since Mark asked me to profile him for The Happy Mutant Handbook back in 1995.
"Says one person who's worked with [photographer Terry] Richardson: 'It's just impossible for me to see him as a sexual predator. What he does is completely out in the open.'
Watch above in delight as a Wilford Brimleyesque feline named Cooper demonstrates the fine art of BANG DEAD. It's the fisheye lens what makes it magic. MOAR at sweetfurr.blogspot.com.
My documentarian friend Andrea Dunlap over at the Seedling Project pointed out this great footage of a 'scissor dancing' contest in Peru, something she saw when she was living and filming there a few years ago. It happens a few times a year to mark Easter, Christmas, and Yacu Raymi (an annual water festival).