November 2nd, 2009
The Redskins hive is buzzing with ideas for samizdat, but this one might be the best.
0 commentsJapanese Ship Sunk By Giant Jellyfish!
November 2nd, 2009
This story is made only slightly less terrifying by the fact that it refers to the plural.
0 commentsHey Peter! The Breast Exam Girl is On Channel 7 Again!
October 30th, 2009
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The Fightin' Phils Polka
October 30th, 2009
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The Book David Stern Doesn't Want You to Read
October 30th, 2009
Deadspin has excerpts of the spiked Tim Donaghy book up, and it’s damning stuff. Doubly so because (true or not) it fits the narrative of the single most damaging critique made of the NBA. Like “see Russia from my house,” this will stay with the league for a long time, even if only 2 percent of it is true
What’s going to happen to this league? It’s on a downward trajectory to begin with. My guess is that the Donaghy allegations are going to hurt most with marginal fans (like me), who catch the occasional regular season game and then try to tune in for the playoffs and Finals.
Galley Brother B.J. notes that the NBA might be able to save themselves by rebranding as “sports entertainment” . . .
0 commentsHey, New York, we got just two words for you:
October 29th, 2009
Suck it.
0 commentsLetterman Update
October 28th, 2009
From the beginning I thought it was possible (though certainly not likely) that Letterman’s serial-sex-with-younger-employees could cause him real trouble. If his alleged blackmailer actually goes to trial and gets discovery, and more former employees like this woman come forward, those odds are going to start to tilt.
CBS has a big potential downside here. As things stand now, they get a lot more from Letterman than they stand to lose. But that could change. Also, it’s entirely possible that some other experienced late-night host might be available in the medium-term future to pick up as a replacement.
All of that, however, is just wind-up for this: When are we going to get a NY Post Letterman-Steve Phillips crossover? It has to happen . . .
0 commentsJosh Friedman on Loss
October 27th, 2009
His description of what it’s like to have your show cancelled:
Everyone says having your show cancelled is like a death but I’ve been dead before and at least when you’re dead you don’t get thrown off the Warner Bros. lot for haunting your old parking space. They probably mean it’s like the death of a friend or a family member but that shit only hurts when it’s YOUR friend or family member and even then it’s mitigated by age, lifestyle and whether that person was a Hollywood friend or a real one and whether that family member left you money.
Losing your show is more like a surprise divorce where you get served papers in the morning and your (ex)wife is fucking Human Target by three in the afternoon using the same time slot your child was conceived in and also where she did that one thing that one time on your birthday.
Right in the fella’s.
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