"But in many observers’ telling, Friend had left these seekers no choice. They had to 'speak [their] truth,' they have said, on and offline, because Friend is 'like a thousand-headed Hindu painting,' 'a guy counting cards faster than you can imagine any human being able to count,' or a 'weird warlock perverted Dumbledore power whore.'" —The rise and fall of John Friend, the former king of anusara yoga.
14 teams enter. Only one can win. It's the Amazing Hoop Race! Oh yes, it is on: "Proceed to the nearest airport and take your hoops with you. At the airport, share the joy of hooping with others. Record a travelogue of all airport patrons that join you for an airport hooping session. Each person who hoops successfully with a member of your team is worth one point, although a pilot is worth 5 points and a flight attendant is worth 3." So all of the world should be warned about being approached by hot ladies with hula hoops.
"In 1982, I visited New York on a 36-hour long school trip to see Broadway plays. I bought an issue of the Village Voice that I *studied* for the next year, because the back pages and apartment rental listings told me everything I needed to know to be able to make my way from my hometown back to the Big Apple. In that issue was an Amy Arbus portrait of John Sex and Katy K that was really striking. I recall thinking 'Hey it’s the guy in that picture' the first time I saw John in a nightclub. He was one of those people who was a celebrity, [...]
The squeezing-in at the last second for Oscar consideration this year is already bananas.
"TV is far less risk-averse these days than cinema." Christine Vachon, discussing her HBO project, with director Todd Haynes (!), of Mildred Pierce (!).
There is a new trailer just out for I Am Love, which is pretty much about Tilda Swinton running around Milan with hot guys in great outfits. (Both her and the guys.) I am going to go watch it AGAIN NOW, SO LONG!
This is a new Erykah Badu song. Produced by underground hip-hop hero Madlib, it sounds like something that could either be the first song or the last song on her new album, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), set to arrive in two weeks. The picture is the cover. Which is awesome and makes me wonder what Erykah Badu thinks of Avatar? Here are some other pictures, of her surfing last month in Hawaii.
"David Foxley started the prep company Jack Foxley to service all men whose well-worn sweaters and jackets are in need of some love." —Well. There you have it. But in all seriousness, these sew-'em-yourself elbow patches look great! They even have them in neon ultrasuede… girlfriend!
From left to right: Miss Grandma's Backyard (Potato Salad Egg with Apricot Fizz); Mademoiselle Alsace-Lorraine (Creamy, Lemony Egg with Reisling-Plum-Rosemary Punch); Miss Soul Custardy (Vanilla Custard and Chocolate Egg in Phyllo with Peach-Cayenne Coffee Frappe); Senorita El Trionfo de la Revolucion (Chicken Liver and Havana Club Egg served with Barbadian Rum); Miss Piggie (Egg with Jowl, Side and Belly Bacon served with Mint Julep); Jury Award Winner: Miss Spicy German (Red Curry, Sweet Chili, and Spicy Chili Eggs with Home Brewed Double Wheat Ale).
There's no activity that can't be improved with a little competition. Down South, where I live, sporting activities are eschewed all summer. Instead we [...]
What's that? You haven't been able to work all day either? I KNOW. Can't stop graming those N's.
Okay so it's not impossible that there might be a Sex and the City 3. Is 3D too much to ask ?
I jumped the gun a little bit on August 27, when I very nearly believed for real that Citigroup stock would hit $5. And on April 14, when I hoped it would maybe happen that quarter. BUT GUESS WHAT! After announcing they'd sell off their hedge fund biz, the stock is hopping around at $4.94 to $4.99 this morning. Who's too big to fail? Whoooo is? Who let the banks out! Who? Who who who? AND THEN, at about 10:05 a.m., it hit $5! And then went down to $4.99. And then it hit $5.05, after a spike in volume! WHERE IT IS SORT OF HOLDING [...]
It's tough to make bad movies in the Age of Irony. Once you reach a certain level of badness, it raises a slew of questions: is it an "ironically bad" movie, where the director is tossing us a wink-wink-nudge-nudge with every line of face-clawing dialogue? Or is the whole debacle a deliberate attempt at "look at our reverential homage" bad? (Cough cough, Inglourious Basterds.) Or maybe it's "look at how bad this is but it's so bad it's actually good, and if you don't think so then you don't 'get it'" bad? The whole thing gets so confusing (I have had it with this motherfucking irony in these motherfucking films!). [...]
“We’re going so far, in many of our Patches, to host ‘Pizza Playoffs’ — a tournament-style bracket that pits all the pizza parlors in town into showdowns to attract the most comments and star-ratings. Features like this could go on for weeks at a time, and when one ends, another will begin.” —Forever and ever, amen
I don't even know. "In celebration of selling its millionth Butterbeer inside The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Orlando Resort shared 1,000 complimentary Butterbeers with guests on the streets of Hogsmeade." Yes, really!
Oysters are a loogie in the culinary sandbox. An epicure will slurp them, but most folks would rather eat egg salad that’s been clotting on a picnic table for six hours. Consequently, any oyster dish is the ideal game-changer at your Thanksgiving table, and is odds-on to send that cousin-in-law whose name you can’t remember to the punchbowl to bob for the courage to hold his nose and swallow one whole.
My mother was an odd filly to pick up the oyster habit. Her Dust Bowl childhood in the Nebraska Sand Hills (which we only heard about every ten minutes: blizzards more blinding with each White Zin; a trek [...]
NOW WITH EXTRA AIDAN! And… not much else? Let's just say they're holding their plot cards close to their collective enhanced chests. This worked with SatC 1! But you know how sequels are… we want bigger, faster, more! So far, as near as I can tell, the plot of this movie is identical to Jackass 2. (Maybe Sex and the City 3: The Embalming will be in 3D though!)
Blogger Janet Malcolm (Ha, I am LOLing, I just wanted to write that!) is having a hard time with her autobiography, so she is blogging about it. Which: 1. SHIVERS. A Janet Malcolm autobiography! Abandoned or not! 2. SHIVERS. 3. "I have been aware, as I write this autobiography, of a feeling of boredom with the project. My efforts to make what I write interesting seem pitiful. My hands are tied, I feel." 4. *screams*
