Archive for the 'culture' Category
Thomas Paine
Byl offers a qutoe from Thomas Paine. Little known fact: Paine named our country. He was the first to call our chunk of soil The United States.
He was a free-thinker, a deist, and a revolutionary. He printed Common Sense, the pamphlet that did so much to encourage the Revolution right here in Philadelphia, at [...]
Bill Monroe: Remembering the Father of Bluegrass Music
Today would have been Bill Monroe’s 95th birthday.
For those of you who are not bluegrass freaks, Bill Monroe is widely seen as the Father of Bluegrass Music, which he presented to the Grand Ole Opry audience in the early 1940s.
Bluegrass music, contrary to popular belief, is not particularly old. True enough, Monroe based his [...]
Read More..>>I’ll Give It a Shot
Atrios writes, of upper-class twit and congenital liar Sebastian Mallaby:
I’m not going to claim to have a deep understanding of living life as a member of the working poor - and, no, years of being a relatively impoverished grad student don’t really qualify - but I do know the experience of someone in that situation [...]
Mean and Ignorant
I was at Central Pizza this afternoon to pick up a cheesesteak.
The woman who runs the counter is in her late forties, maybe early fifties, with scrappy brown hair and yellowed teeth. Her skin has that sepia tone that long-term smokers always seem to have. Her legs are rather thin, considering they [...]
Drinking Liberally, 8/22: Armageddon Awaits!
Just a quick reminder that Armageddon or no, we’re still going to be Drinking Liberally at 18th Street and Lombard in Center City Philadelphia from 6-whenever PM! I hope you’ll join us, and if indeed God’s Fire does rain from the sky, or the 12th Imam appears, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster pelts us [...]
Read More..>>More Mary
Thanks to Melissa, commenter at The Comica Curmudegon, we receive the following Palm Beach Post analysis.
Mary Worth, the comic strip your grandma used to love, suddenly is red-hot.
Is it because an extreme makeover took away her wrinkles and the junk in her trunk, turning a frumpy widow into a saucy senior?
Or is it the holy-cow [...]
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Viral Video
This is making hte rounds, and it’s very funny in a dark dark way.
It’s worth watching all the way through: the reference to September 11th is as bleak as Swift.
The Priest
I was sitting outside at a table at the Dahlak on Sunday with my friend Rich and this punk rock girl I had never met before. She had short blonde hair, and wore thick streaks of pink eyeshadow, almost a Blondie meets Benatar kind of look. She was pissing me off by making the same [...]
Read More..>>Arlo and Janis, part 2
Beyond the hilarity of the titty-ogling in the final panel (which is as hilarious as the the silent penultimate panel’s “c’mon, whaddya say to an old-fashioned gang-bang”), isn’t this woman married? With a kid? Since like the 1980s?
Wikipedia has an interesting piece on A&J, confirming what Live By Foma contends: it’s a smutty strip.
Arlo and [...]
