Scene: Register line at a deli. Characters: D (dude), chugging out of a large Sapporo can. GF (girlfriend), waiting for D to finish drinking. D: This place sucks. GF: Let’s go. (grabs can and finishes off beer) Both wait in line for another thirty seconds, pay for empty beer
Richard Rosner, a former ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ contestant, is suing the show because he claims that the correct answer to the question that knocked him off the show (at the $16,000 mark, incidentally) was not among the four choices he was given. How could an asshole
The man who put up the cash to build the first New York City subway line (from City Hall to 145th Street) was one August Belmont, Jr. He so loved riding his subway line that he commissioned the building of his own private subway car… And when the car was
Overheard conversation while waiting for Jim at Old Town Bar and Grill. part one First Man: I can’t find any. Second Man: Are you using a yahoo? First Man: Yeah. Second Man: For what? First Man: Analcunt Second Man: You gotta try that google. You’ll get tons. part
Hershey’s has a children’s site, called Kidztown, that features a message board that allows users (presumably children) to post questions, one would guess, generally related to chocolate. Some of the questions, however, seem to stray a bit from the subject at hand. And they range from the innocent:
I’m from Austin. And every year thousands of record execs and related debris descend upon the fair city in that grand tradition that is known as South by Southwest. Well, SXSW 2001 just wrapped up: oh yes, that special week when you can’t get a table at your
Don’t know if you’ve seen the ads for this band ‘Crazy Town’ (what kind of a name is that? no, really?) on bus stops around town, but I just took a look at their site, in particular the ‘Who The Fuck Is Crazy Town’ section (that would be
The ’80s were a lot of things, and one of the things it was was (perhaps) unrealistically horrifying, what with all the movies about post-nuclear-war wastelands (hey, there was even a Tom Petty video that depicted a post-nuclear-war wasteland [see the 1982 photo here]). Well, Austin’
Ah, it was a Grammy Award ceremony to behold. And, yet, it was completely without point or interest. And (and yet), I watched it. Well, except for the part that was on during Temptation Island. But I think something about these Grammys (sp?) should be noted: CNN reported that Eminem,
We heard that you like MP3s. We also heard (from the Coalition for the Future of Music) that everyone’s favorite recording industry entity ‘is forming a pool under the title SoundExchange to attempt to collect and distribute the royalties from webcasters who stream music.’ Fight back here. Also seen
