Awl contributor Alex Pareene offers up a compendium of a decade in counterintuitive thought. I bet some poor kid at Slate is working on a piece about how all the articles referenced are actually works of conventional wisdom as we speak! 25
Flicked Off: Alex Pareene and Natasha Vargas-Cooper on 'The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' @1:40 PM
Natasha: Pareene!
Alex: Natasha!
Natasha: Can we talk about the motherf'ing Bad Lieutenant??
Alex: Yes. Yes we can.
Natasha: Pareene, tell me why this is a great movie.
Alex: Well. I think, first of all, that it is indeed about a Bad Lieutenant. I think that while Abel Ferrara's original movie was about a bad person who happens to be a Lieutenant, Nic Cage, in this film, was just not ever very good at being a Lieutenant. And I admired that, making a police procedural where none of the policing is ever very competent. READ MORE 23
Krossword Korner, with Alex Pareene: A Bearload of Answers! @3:44 PM
The answers for this week's crossword puzzle follow. READ MORE 3
Clinton Pal Lanny Davis: Busy Bee, Honduras Operative @3:57 PM
Hey, what is Clintonista lawyer Lanny Davis up to these days? Oh wait, he's what? "He is just bad, for the country. And not just our country! He is now being bad for Honduras, where the military recently seized power, on behalf of the business elite, who were worried that some of their wealth might be redistributed to that nation's poor." I miss the old days, when we'd just go south of the border and shoot people. Oh wait, we still do that too? 0
Back On The Beat @4:45 PM
Awl crossword puzzle editor Alex Pareene, writing at his NEW BLOG, follows up on that chiropractic controversy we mentioned a month ago and then promptly forgot all about. Go read it and then add his blog to your RSS Reader, because it is just that good. 2
Contributors do other things @12:16 PM
Elsewhere today: Bookforum, where Awl wealth-hater Chris Lehmann serves as Senior Editor, has launched a redesigned website which will update daily. Awl crossword editor Alex Pareene has a terrific parody of the recent Vanity Fair "Journey to Brooklyn" piece. And Awl co-editor Alex Balk spent the morning looking at Latina porn, but that's not really out of the ordinary. 1
Lifetime Wives Should Probably Just Be Quiet At Parties @1:29 PM
Awl pal Alex Pareene is again recapping Lifetime movies. The latest installment considers Lifetime's penchant for scenes where women embarrass their husbands at important parties. You will enjoy it. 9
This Week's Crossword Puzzle's Answers @10:45 AM
Yesterday's Bad Poetry crossword puzzle by Alex Pareene was disturbingly difficult! Here at last are the answers. READ MORE 2
I can't wait until he recaps the one about the kid who gets addicted to Internet porn. @8:21 AM
What's better than reading recaps of terrible TV? Pretty much anything, including ball cancer and genocide. But also, recaps of terrible Lifetime movies. Particularly when written by young Alex Pareene. You'll thank us later. 6
The Answers To Pareene's Puzzle @1:20 PM
Today's crossword puzzle by Alex Pareene was wicked hard, warn't it? Herewith, the answers! READ MORE 10
Hoisting Some Tea At The Party @8:44 AM
Young bearded writer Alex Pareene answers the question I'd been idly asking my T.V.: who really was at those tax day protests? Turns out? Everyone!
If you throw an anti-war rally, only people who don't want there to be a war will show up. But if you just throw a "shit sucks" protest, everyone has a reason to attend! An anti-taxes, anti-Democrats, anti-Obama, anti-government, anti-Wall Street protest means, hey, somebody around here must be against something you're against.
