Posts tagged as Maureen Dowd

"I never liked him. He seems sort of unpleasant and uncomfortable." READ MORE

High School Brainiacs Secretly Harboring All Sorts Of Depraved Thoughts

Dave Bry | March 10, 2011

"The students memorize all they can, usually in 15-minute stretches of tedious silence. Then they spill their memory to recall, say, 120 random words in exact order. (That is roughly the length of this article to the end of this sentence, but with the words shuffled.) Or maybe they will try to match 159 unfamiliar names to photos of strangers, or recall 227 exact words, capital letters and punctuation of a poem read for the first time. Those are, after all, the national records held by members of the Hershey memory team." READ MORE

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The Fantasy Constructions of MoDo

Choire Sicha | September 1, 2010

I thought Maureen Dowd was on vacation all summer. But I was just forgetting to look. Now I'm glad about that.

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Maureen Dowd of Arabia's Flickr is 'Vanity Fair'

Choire Sicha | June 30, 2010

Maureen Dowd went to Saudi Arabia and all she got was this hilarious slideshow of photos of herself in different outfits. (Oh and a big piece in the August Vanity Fair.) I LOVE IT. It's just like Sex and the City 2 except 1. no galpals and 2. at least MoDo pulls out a notebook sometimes. I clicked through every picture two times! Actual caption of the photo seen here: "Dowd and friend on the outskirts of Riyadh. 'It's funny,' she writes, 'to see how many people have named their camels Barack."

How To: Maureen Dowd

Alex Balk | September 9, 2009

"As soon as I started covering Barack Obama, I knew he was going to be trouble," writes Maureen Dowd in her Times column today. "Not Global Trouble, like W. and Dick Cheney. Or Hanky-Panky Trouble, like Bill Clinton and John Edwards. Or Tedious Trouble, like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. He was going to be the kind of guy who whipped you up and then, when you were all excited, left you flat, and then-" READ MORE

Jesus, Who Wrote Maureen Dowd's Sunday Column?

Choire Sicha | August 24, 2009

Which helping hands co-wrote The Maureen Dowd Collective's insane, 2003-era rant against Anna Wintour this weekend? We're thinking the high dudgeon screaminess sounds like Alessandra Stanley and Frank Bruni cracking themselves up after a few drinks. (Though Bruni is probably too busy to pitch in on her column right now, what with his book tour.) Plus we're assuming her assistant did the reporting. ("I dunno, call Andre Leon Talley and whoever else one calls usually. Surprise me! Then quote... um, Keith Kelly-he's still alive, right?") But you know: could have been anyone (amped up on a few hits of nitrous) really. Anyway, someone give this funny lady and her funny friends a blog!

So Apparently It Was Michiko's Turn To Write Maureen's Column Today

Choire Sicha | June 10, 2009

My God! New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani was apparently just too lazy to not use her favorite word – "limn" – today, while she was obviously pitching in to write her share of the column that appears in the New York Times under Maureen Dowd's name. GET IT TOGETHER, DOWD-BORG.