Thanks to the unlikely agency of The New York Lottery, my favorite new song is “Are You Ready?” by Fatty Gets a Stylist, which is masterminded and largely comprised by the Australian sensations Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall. It’s catchy, it’s summery, it made my buy a Mega Millions ticket, and I love it.
Congratulations to my friend Lewis Burke Frumkes on the publication of his new book Favorite Words of Famous People, in which people such as Hillary Clinton, Yo-Yo Ma, Norman Mailer, Muhammad Ali, Jamie Malanowski and about 250 others discuss their favorite words. ( I know, I know: how the hell did I end up in …
. . .the party is over for Friday Night Lights, a terrific television series based on an excellent Peter Berg movie based ona very good Buzz Bissinger book. The story of a high school football coach and his wife, his players, their families, and the culture of small town football, Friday Night Lights did an …
Members of Congress have have been the authors of some of the great acts of cynicism in our lifetimes: slipping items favored by special interests in the fine print of conference committee reports; voting one way on a bill and thenanother way in enabling legislation or appropriations; citing some high-minded purpose on a bill that …
July 12, 2511–Archeologists working in the remnants of the great financial meltdown found remnants of a rare 21st century recording that survived the Great iTunes implosion of 2022. Performed by an obscure 21st century blues singer named Blind Muddy Obama, it is entitled “Band Aids and Peas,” and apparently contains references to the debt ceiling …
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In an astonishing, Jack Armstrongish day, the peerless Derek Jeter reached the milestone of 3000 career hits by slugging a third-inning home run off hard-throwing right hander David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays. Jeter marked the day by going 5 for 5, with the hits including the homer, a double, and three singles, the …
Girls with coconuts on a 90 degree day.
Yes, that’s me in The Daily Briarcliff today, shown standing in Law Park, talking about And the War Came. Thanks to Tien-Shun Lee for a terrific article. To see it in its entirity, click here.
In my freshman year of college my friend Bob Crumlish and I were sitting in the college cafeteria doing what 18 year olds were doing in cafeterias the length and breadth of America, namely, screwing around. In our case, we were using teaspoons to catapult elements of a fruit cocktail through the air and onto …
Brinksmanship is a pretty effective tactic; the disciplined refusal to compromise until the very last minute often panics a less steadfast opponent into making desperate concessions. Currently Congressional Republicans are engaging in brinksmanship with the debt ceiling, refusing to approve raising the ceiling by the deadline of August 2nd unless there is an effective budget …