On Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" in Another Context
The works of Leslie Charteris are sorely in need of reprinting in the U.S.
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On Run, Dino, Run!
Didn't Francis of Assisi deal with something like this?
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On Six Minutes in Heaven: Will Leitch, How Are Your Sales?
...the idea that baseball was some sort of pure game just because middle-aged sportswriters happened to have been kids when that happened is bunk.
Perhaps people who live in houses made of "Fathers and Sons," "The New Golden Age" and "Baseball," the oldest Father's-Day-table-at-Barnes-&-Noble tag lines in the very oldest book, should throw fewer stones.
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On Your Mediocre Sperm: Who's To Blame? Does It Matter?
"We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? [pause] Kif, I'm asking you a question."
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On Ask 'Them': Hello, I Voted For George Bush. Twice! Let's Talk!
Didn't Salon try this, and fail with it, last year?
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On "The House of Mirth" as a Poorly Played Game of "Choose Your Own Adventure"
I go paragliding near Sandy! I've never associated it with Edith Wharton, though.
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On Modesty Blaise Creator Dies
No Pulp Fiction reference? Generation X is slipping into dementia.
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On Russians, Arabs Too Filthy, Ethnic For Dying Couture Industry
"Maybe it will not be finished the same way inside, but who will know?"
That kind of thinking has reduced the market for men's tailored clothing to little more than a fetish.
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On Is It The Duty of Every Enlightened Female To Put Out?
I blame that Liz Cuomo trollop and her paramour Rivers Phair.
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On How To Be Tolerant
It is so anachronistically, First Things-ishly confirmation-biased to call the Big J a "pragmatic moralist" that I don't think I am capable of correcting it without a backhoe and several early-'80s-vintage G.I. Joe figures.