Here at Listen! Watch! Eat! we’re so excited for the end of the year roundup that we can hardly type. Thanks to all our audience for being around for the roller coaster ride of 2012, and we know you love the list as much as we do, so let’s get right to it. MUSIC Real [...]
From E.B. White, 1952, in The New Yorker. From this high midtown hall, undecked with boughs, unfortified with mistletoe, we send forth our tinselled greetings as of old, to friends, to readers, to strangers of many conditions in many places. Merry Christmas to uncertified accountants, to tellers who have made a mistake in addition, to [...]
Going to Portland, Maine today. Yay! Early flight, 7 am, so that we’ll have a nice two hour layover before the connecting flight from Newark. Up at 4:30. Cab called at 5. Cab to be there in 15 minutes! Cab does not arrive. Call dispatcher. Dispatcher is evasive, yet concerned. Says cab driver is not [...]
Hi. Vote. It’s not about you, okay? It’s about everyone else. Also, below is my opinionated ballot guide, which becomes less and less useful as you go down the list until it’s pointless for people who live more than 10 miles from my house. Also, I am a combination of lefty and ornery (two of [...]
Hi Onion. You guys are consistently the funniest thing I see. Congratulations and thank you. However, you really blew it with Nation Did Not See Mark Wahlberg’s Sex Change Coming. Trans people should not be a punchline. Not because I believe in prudery or censorship, but because they’re the people everyone shits on, and it’s [...]
When I was a kid we spent a lot of time in Europe. On one summer trip we drove around the Loire Valley visiting rustic towns and castles. The Loire is famous for its old castles, which have mostly been preserved. It was a great trip: old stones, rustic villages, great food. At one of [...]
Let’s begin in the desert. Shotglass was at the top of the wash, a rapidly spinning drum about a meter wide and protruding almost to the top of the weeds. Tongs stuck out of the slanting east side just a little and looked like a stray bit of rebar. Olive and Onion were hair-thin wires [...]
Sometimes I’ll hear someone, either a friend or just someone in earshot, talking along about political and social issues, say this: “I’m not one of those feminists.” Or, “I can’t stand those feminists.” If queried on this, I’ll hear something like “I wouldn’t put myself in that category” or “I’m just not like that, I [...]
Folks: We know you’re just as pumped as we are about all the rockin’ events, speakers, sessions, and performances at this year’s SXSW Interactive. But it’s even better now. We’ve squeezed in some more items that kick ass so hard that we’re flyin’ here! Check out: FRIDAY: Mobile Karaoke for NGOs: Sharing Stories, Sharing Licensing, [...]
This is Bob Trout’s story and not mine, so I’ll do my best to transcribe: When we came back from Vietnam, the protesters were waiting for us. It wasn’t just yelling and a little spitting, it was a lot of throwing stuff. We had nowhere to go and no way around it. And these cabbies, [...]