Month: December 2000

from TeeVee.org Each year, the Rankin/Bass classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer fills us with two powerful-yet-conflicting emotions: tender-hearted compassions for the pitiable denizens of the Isle of Misfit Toys and the powerful bloodlust to beat Herbie the Elf until he cries out to his elf gods for death.

From Suck.com The stock socio/psycho/cultural/hermeneutical answer has always been that Jews have suffered a great deal through the ages and have developed a sense of humor as a defense mechanism. This doesn’t explain why, say, Chinese peasant humor doesn’t dominate prime time sit-coms or why more New Delhi untouchables don’t host more late night talk […]

Yes – Richard and I are no longer dating. I knew he’d been talking with his ex-boyfriend lately so I wasn’t terribly surprised. What is curious is that since the The Talk last Wednesday he’s been over more than ever. Saturday for the cookie party. Sunday night to watch Part I of Dune. Last night […]

Using the Web for Arranged Marriages in India: “Definition of heaven: American salary, Indian wife, Chinese food and British accommodation. Definition of hell: American wife, British food, Chinese accommodation and Indian salary.”

Can you believe how dumb everybody is except you? Neither can anybody else.

Angelina ‘My Lips Do My Acting For Me’ Jolie: The world is a lot bigger than I thought it was … The world I live in most of the time is very, very small. Hollywood is very ugly. They’re all worrying about the wrong things, about being beautiful.”

Jail baby: Tameka will go down in history as the first child conceived after her delinquent parents had sexual intercourse between the bars of a jail cell.