Per aspera

Oh go fuck yourself, Irwin, if I may enjoy the impertinence of addressing you by your first name.
-James Wolcott
I will state now for the record my intent to steal that joke and use it as my own.

I know this, because I have come to the realization that I love Sam Adams Octoberfest more than the Winter Lager, when previously Winter Lager had been my favorite beer. Now there are a few, including the Octoberfest, that I’d place above it.* Thus have I reassured myself that I’m still capable of […]

All in the space of five seconds, with no dialogue, or even people!

CHIPMUNK!
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You know how a company like Pampers will donate industrial amounts of diapers to people who have quintuplets or something, sort of acknowledging that this family’s need for diapers is so inhumanly great, they could never expect to meet it except via the well-publicized kindness of a responsible corporate citizen?
Same sort of thing.

Don Herbert, 89; TV’s ‘Mr. Wizard’ taught science to young baby boomers
Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died […]

So I have this friend named Graham.
No no, let me revise: Massachusetts has this friend named Graham.
At your service
Meet Graham Campbell, a top 10 kind of guy
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Campbell wanted to be an officer, not a white-shoe lawyer, from the time he was 5. Loved the sirens. At Buckley, voted “Most Likely to be a Civil […]

Steve Gilliard, of The News Blog.

Singer Chaka Khan embraces funk, not GOP
Q: Let’s get political briefly. In 2000, you sang at the Republican National Convention.
A: “I’m trying to forget that.”
Q: That was my question. In the intervening years, a lot of people have become disillusioned with the president the candidate and ultimately the president that emerged.
A: “Does that answer your […]