Damn, I just found out that Jack Wrangler died about two weeks ago - apparently of emphysema. He was 62 ( Read more... )

Below is one of the instant message exchanges between former Republican Representative Mark Foley and a teenage Congressional page. You've probably seen it or read transcriptions, but I'm enjoying this too much not to reproduce some of it:


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I couldn't resist...


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So the Tony Awards were broadcast last night and I have to admit that it looked fucking grim. I'm going to rant about this sordid affair a bit, so feel free to skip this if it's of no interest. But, hey, I have a degree in Theatre Theory and Criticism and was a practitioner of the art for twenty-odd years (and a damned good one at that), so I ( Read more... )

So Oscar night is here again. By default, the management of the Virgin Megastore Orlando Oscar competition has fallen to me - and I spent the whole of last evening collating and tabulating peoples' votes.

( For what it's worth, some of the results of the voting can be found behind the cut. )

The Virgin Megastore shares a staff smoking area - more of a loading zone/breezeway, really - with the House of Blues, Wolfgang Puck Café, and the dorks of DisneyQuest. I am always struck by the frequency with which the staff of Wolfgang Puck's spits. Seriously - they spit almost constantly - all of them. Well, all of the guys, anyway. It's like ( Read more... )

I came across an entry in Obsidian Wings' blog yesterday on the potential Academy Awards nominations of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, which raised an interesting point, but spawned an excellent satiric response. First, the blog (excerpted):

Why is Jake Gylllenhaal being nominated for "Best Supporting Actor" in "Brokeback Mountain" by ( Read more... )

This was fun.

It looks like Wayne Lapierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association and board member of the American Association of Political Consultants, has joined the ranks of such legendary conservative hypocrites as Senior Bush Advisor Karl Rove, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Israel Hernandez, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, RNC CFO Jay Banning, RNC National ( Read more... )