On Rob Lowe Is Untouchable
i just did this laugh where it starts out as a brief, concentrated explosion of laughter then about forty-five seconds of aftershock chuckling then a second, lower-level laughter explosion, and then some wheezing and then the ultimate finally-caught-my-breath, post-laughter sigh.
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On Edith Zimmerman on Chris Evans and the Gutters of L.A.
classic seed-planting. edith will definitely be tapping that in 3-6 months.
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On The Weird, Frictionless Politics Of 'Parks And Recreation'
@bluesuedeshoes
especially in "non-essential" departments like parks, to which i can attest as a former park ranger. you know, a walkie-talkie costs like six grand, right? and we get new ones like every other year, but that doesn't mean it's the reason children aren't getting a new chalkboard let alone a proper education. in conclusion, this article is bogus. people need to stop being so serious about comedy!
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On 'Repo Games': Turning Poverty Into A Game Show
@ep i think the thing about consumer demand re: television programming is that consumption and the demand for it are not properly measured; the neilson system seems fucked, and a business model in the television industry does not necessarily (if at all) correlate with demand. i haven't read pozner, so i don't know if she makes that part of her argument, but i think it has a lot to do with why cable sucks.
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On Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert
i really like the analogy of chemists and the scientific community in general. but the thing about scientific knowledge is that, for the century "we" (scientists and philosophers, i.e., experts) put in to debating, say, evolution through natural selection, most people still don't understand the concept, even if they purport to accept it as true.
i'd be interested to learn the percentage of people
who actively participate in wikipedia as part of all the people who use wikipedia as a source or entry-point for learning. i'm guessing that an amazing majority of people who visit that site take its content as authority just as they'd take scientific studies as authority or even a newspaper article about arnold's lovechild as authority.
i guess my point is that most people aren't and won't ever be engaged in the the activities of authorship, traditional or collective, about most topics. so it seems like there will always be a relatively small amount of people who put forth knowledge and opinion, and there will always be a far greater amount of people soaking up that knowledge with reckless abandon. or am i not giving people enough credit?
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On A New Yorker's Guide to Hiking, Biking and Fishing
the only thing i've ever caught in the delaware water gap was lyme disease.
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On The Backside of Barack Obama
is it just me or does clooney have his eyes on obama and souza AT THE SAME TIME?!
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On Is The Internet Making Us All Crazy Or Just Me?
i used to have dreams about banging hot chicks who never talked to me in high school or about giant plastic dinosaurs getting sucked through a vortex in my bedroom floor, but now, increasingly often in my dreams, i see facebook news feeds that never existed. i can never remember what they say, and sometimes they are in another language, but i know that i know what they say when i'm dreaming, because they give me a very specific feeling, and i understand them to be funny or offensive or sad or mysterious. i know i have a subconscious desire and/or fear to text friends on my iphone because these are things i now do in my dreams.
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On Public Apology: Dear Girl From California
had james cash and ME over to drink wine coolers
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On A Midseason Tally: Who's Up, Who's Down
i wish you guys would talk about hockey sometimes