When we were in Calgary, my agent took us to see the Tiger Lillies in concert. (Can I just say that I really like my agent? ) I knew vaguely about the band and their New York success with Shockheaded Peter, but I’d never actually heard them play. The concert was Halloween night, which was […]

We’re now finding out all sorts of things about the campaign. Fox News revealed that Sarah Palin thought that Africa was a country, that she didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA, that she refused to prepare for interviews and that she threw temper tantrums. The GOP has sent a lawyer to retrieve Palin’s clothes. […]

A few weeks ago, I pointed y’all at MightyGodKing’s revised and horribly truthful covers for all the books he liked when he was a teenager. And then he got Boing’d, and the pages got taken down.Well, they’re back.Here’s the first page.Here’s the second.

I watched the election results on the BBC, partly in order to avoid having to view the same smug talking heads saying the same smug things, but mainly because they had some really interesting guests, like John Bolton, Christopher Hitchens, Jay McInerny, and Gore Vidal. Vidal was a disappointment, since all he did was insult […]