-
Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender
Until its death by Anheuser-Busch in 2006, there was one and only one reason to order a Rolling Rock. You were slumming. Rolling Rock occupied that peculiar little niche, described in the linked article…
-
“Quarter to Five” [by Allison Power]
Quarter to Five But I didn’t want the operator. So I make spaghetti, consider syntax, refuse autographs, write letters to Pope, recycle photographs, rehearse lines, imagine the good ole days, examine the terrain, sweep…
-
Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender
Satire amazes me with its quickness on the uptake. No sooner had Arthurian legend started making the rounds than Marie de France began collecting these oral tales and making fun of them. Chaucer has…
-
Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender
Okay, Cosmo drinkers out there, maybe I was a little hard on you yesterday, with the hypocrisy comparison. I don’t want to get bonked on the head with a Kate Spade bag the next…
-
Did you hear about the consumptive hollywood starlet?
She was always being typecast as a phlegm-fatale.
-
Sure, pay attention, but what currency will it accept for more than a second? [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I didn't paint this picture, or hang it in a garage where the sunlight from a broken rafter might sometimes strike it just the way the light within the image was crashing…
