Archive for April, 2008

Tonight: Trivia Preview

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Trivia, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

 Tonight, we're going to rip it up for youse with some more fresh questions about ass-shakingly interesting things, same as every week. Prizes include a pop-up book of Celebrity Meltdowns*, a ... Read more..

Slap de priest’s striped pals!

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Lit/Writ/Crit, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

Speaking of being a sucker for things (and I was, just six days ago), I cut my teeth on wordplay, and here's one I've always had in mind but thought it ... Read more..

Original Monopoly Cards

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Sports, Trivia, I Found This Interesting | 2 Comments »

 Adena has come upon some scans of the original versions of the Monopoly cards, before they decided on the whole rich-old-man theme. I'm a sucker for these quick pen-and-ink graphics, ... Read more..

Perpetual Southern Exposure: A Lateral Thinking Test

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Trivia, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

A Scottish friend of mine sent out this Lateral Thinking Test he got at work. I've scanned it (Page 1, Page 2) for your onscreen viewing convenience, as well as ... Read more..

Here Comes A Regular: Replacements Reissues Out Now

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Music, I Found This Interesting | 1 Comment »

Turns out Rhino is reissuing deluxe remastered and expanded editions of all the Replacements' albums, the same way they've done for Elvis Costello and some others. Rhino typically does a great ... Read more..

Lindsay Lohan: A Winner At Life (or, Self-Appendectomy For Beginners!)

Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

I regret to say that I will not be blogging today, as I am currently learning how to perform an appendectomy on myself without anesthesia right here at my desk, and ... Read more..

How To Work Better

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

Ego-Technique posted this to-do list: How to Work Better by Fischli/Weiss (1991)  “Taped to the wall of my studio is an A4 photocopy of a short ten-point manifesto by Fischli/Weiss entitled “How to ... Read more..

Disgraceland, or Is Paul Simon The World’s Biggest Prick?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Music, I Found This Interesting | 2 Comments »

According to this interview of Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, they were a lot more involved in the making of Paul Simon's multiple-Grammy-winning and multimillion-selling album Graceland than they were ... Read more..

Good Sklorking To You!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Sports, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

Many congratulations to Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, who managed to sklork down 420 oysters in eight minutes to win the Acme Oyster Eating Championship in New Orleans. He beat Juliet ... Read more..

Quiz: “Only a primitive would believe a word of it.”

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Trivia, Lit/Writ/Crit, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

New York Magazine has a quiz that asks you to figure out the author based on a quote from their Wikipedia entry. It's not a terribly long quiz, and if I ... Read more..

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