Posts tagged as Seinfeld
Larry David's Rough Night Out With The Aging Literary Lion
A column that resurrects the highbrow gossip of yore. READ MORE
Eating Out At Four Of TV's Best-Known Restaurants
Holsten’s in Bloomfield, New Jersey ("The Sopranos") READ MORE
New York City Police Commissioner Told Me He Likes Enya
i am drinking a fruity cocktail inside Cipriani, a gala hall on 42nd Street that's about the size of a football field and decorated like a palace. mike is around here somewhere, interviewing the general manager of the New York Mets. tonight we are at an event that is hosted by the Police Athletic League to honor the organization of the New York Mets, who, as the security guard at work told me today, are one of the worst teams in professional baseball despite their enormous payroll. behind me, a heavyset man with a Queens accent and a haircut from Goodfellas walks through the entrance and admires the lavish setting and says "so this where they're puttin' all their money, huh?" and some other heavyset guys laugh. the haircuts here fall mostly into two categories: wispy white comb-overs for the Mets organization and junior bouffants and crew cuts for the Police people READ MORE
Unemployed Man's Aptitude at Nut-Opening Rewarded By Health Benefits
Since losing my job as an editor at a music magazine last year, I've been thinking a lot about what else I could do to earn a living. I have a lot of records and I can write pretty good and I edit okay with the help of spellcheck. But these things do not seem to be as lucrative in today's market as they might have been in the past. (They were never really that lucrative in the first place, I don't think.) More than once, I've had the conversation with my wife like the famous one from Seinfeld, wherein George and Jerry are talking about what kind of job George should try to get and George wonders whether he might be able to become a general manager of a baseball team since he likes baseball, or a projectionist since he likes watching movies. Pretty depressing, I know. I am as unoriginal as I am single-faceted. When I think of things that I am actually good at, like better than other people, I always end up at the opening of pistachio nuts. READ MORE
"Curb Your Enthusiasm": Jerry Seinfeld Reconsidered
Did you watch "The Simpsons" last night? I did, and about halfway through I had a weird and difficult-to-categorize feeling that I was only later able to identify as shock that the episode did not entirely suck. I'm not making any claims for its greatness, mind you, but it was one of the few times in the last, say, ten years where I saw a new "Simpsons" episode and thought, Well, wow, that wasn't terrible. READ MORE
What is the deal with cum stains?
Here is a tale about a group of artists who faced adversity because of a commitment to verisimilitude that made creative compromise an unimaginable option. Fortuitously, a solution to their problems presented itself in the most unlikely fashion, resulting in a heartwarming denouement.
