Category: Reading List

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Roast Don Rickles

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Roast Don Rickles

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Roast Don RicklesRoasting Don Rickles, the king of insult comics is no easy task — unless you’re Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. In a new preview clip from Spike’s upcoming One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles , Fey mourns the absence of Rickles before Poehler corrects her: “Tina, he is here.” “Jesus,” Fey replies, “I thought that was somebody’s purse.” The two also took a few jabs at the event itself, with Poehler teasing, “So here we are because they thought it was important for Don to be honored by at least one woman — which apparently […]

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How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?

How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?

Forget this. How much does it cost to get my neighbors to stop playing “Happy?”

How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?Ever wonder how much it costs to book your favorite band? Thanks to  Degy Entertainment , a booking agency, we can give you a rough idea: an anonymous source passed along a list of the rates suggested by the artists’ agents per show, pre-expense. (Note: as a reader pointed out, these are asking prices from a third-party booking agency that specializes in college shows; as such, the numbers are likely inflated. Actual prices negotiated by many of these performers are contingent on a variety of factors.) Before you read these lists, a few things should be clarified. First of […]

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The remarkable Neal Stephenson interview

The remarkable Neal Stephenson interview

DW – We seem to have a lot of these negative cultural narratives about technology – the apocalypse of course, environmental collapse, but also the most negative assessment of our economic situation, that capitalism has reached its end game and technology won’t power it any further. Do we face a hard limit on our current development? What comes next? NS – It is worth pointing out that the narratives are just that: narratives. We should begin by asking ourselves where those narratives come from and why they are that way; there’s no prima facie evidence that they have any […]

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President Obama took a stroll. In public. And talked to people.

President Obama took a stroll. In public. And talked to people.

President Obama did something unusual yesterday: He took a walk. “It’s good to be out,” he said as he strolled across the Ellipse, suit jacket tossed over his shoulder. “The bear is loose.” We have no idea why Obama referred to himself as “the bear.” But loose he was, shaking hands with passersby, wishing one man a happy birthday, giving two little girls each a box of presidential M&M’s, listening to some guy yell “America! Freedom! Woooo!” and apologizing to runners. “Sorry to mess up your run,” Obama said, then basically telling them to get back to working out. […]

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Miami stripper gets arrested, offers police oral sex for freedom

Miami stripper gets arrested, offers police oral sex for freedom

A Florida stripper charged with resisting arrest repeatedly stripped and masturbated in a police cell and offered oral sex for her release, police say. ‘Workaholic’ Lakeisha Johnson, who is employed at Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami, gave police officers an X-rated show after being arrested in the early hours of May 19. The 29-year-old removed her clothes and ‘exposed her vagina, anus, and breasts’, according to a police report published by the Smoking Gun. ‘On several occasions, the female licked her breast and masturbated,’ explained officer Juan Canino. ‘[She] had to be ordered repeatedly to keep her clothes on and […]

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GOP’s task: Crush tea party, then court it

GOP’s task: Crush tea party, then court it

Moments after Mitch McConnell’s win Tuesday, a tea-party-backed congressman from Northern Kentucky called him up and vowed to help his campaign despite doing little before. A conservative Nebraska Senate GOP candidate —who previously had a cool relationship with the leader — sent McConnell’s campaign a $2,000 check. And a tea party-aligned group that dropped more than $1 million against McConnell said now it was time for the party to unite. But one key person was still holding out: Matt Bevin, the GOP leader’s tea party-backed primary foe. National Republicans have beat back tea party forces in a spate of […]

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