A friend of mine pointed me to this excellent gallery of pictures of children reacting in terror to Santa Claus. Although I personally was never terrified of Saint Nick, having previously worked in a portrait studio, I have seen Santaphobia in action, and let me tell you, it’s not just fear, it’s pure abject terror.
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The Onion AV Club has a short piece titled “Awful Things Zach Braff Is (Probably) Responsible For,” which references the above video.
I’m not really a big fan of Scrubs, but I’m especially not a fan of these types of “No way, dude, we’re totally not gay” jokes. The problem being, of course, that this […]
New York magazine has a really great interview with the American poet Frederick Seidel, who manages to somehow be both very masculine and very elegant all at once — the guy owns several Ducatis and is friends with Charlotte Rampling, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Diane Von Furstenberg.
Seidel’s newest collection, Ooga-Booga, juxtaposes images of fabulous luxury with […]
I received in the mail yesterday a review copy of Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence. The book is part of a series of books on reading contemporary television. While this sort of timely academic work is just the sort of thing I’m fully in support of (at least in principle), the cover […]