On Deck
...wherein we listen to what Lawrence's movers and shakers are moving and shaking. to.
- "Echoes of the Past" Dead Noon
- "Goldberg Variations" Glenn Gould
- "O True Believer" James Blackshaw
- "Catapult Calypso" Ad Astra Per Aspera
- "Song of the Gypsy" Damon
Tubers
...wherein local TV connoisseurs intimate what keeps them on their couches.
- The Dog Whisperer "The host refers to himself as a dog rehabilitator and people trainer. He approaches dog training the way I would approach childcare."
- Project Runway "I wish I was related to Tim Gunn and I love to hate Nina Garcia."
- Battlestar Galactica "It's science fiction TV's half-assed attempt to make an analogy for the war in Iraq. And I like the word 'frak.'"
Bound Up
Currently reading: "A History of Roman Britain," Peter Salway "It's an extremely important part of world history that's not very well known."
One book everyone should read: "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (original, unexpurgated) "Kids learn valuable things from it. Lots of wisdom and real-life consequences; nature red of tooth and claw."
Top 20 Scandals That May Emerge After Foley-gate Gets Boring
- 1. Air Force One is fueled with dead hookers
- 2. Laura Bush is an illiterate ether junkie
- 3. Trent Lott is actually Mexican
- 4. Bill Frist has had 27 abortions
- 5. Ann Coulter has same sex relations...with other horses
- 6. Sam Brownback has sex
- 7. Tom Delay gerrymandered California out of the United States
- 8. Jack Abramoff opened an Indian casino in the Rose Garden
- 9. Karl Rove outed the CIA's Secret Santa
- 10. Condoleeza Rice was too busy touring with the LPGA to heed 9-11 warnings
- 11. Donald Rumsfeld uses body armor meant for troops to pimp out his yacht
- 12. Alberto Gonzalez water-boards kittens for fun
- 13. Antonin Scalia plays "hide the gavel" with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- 14. Dick Cheney renamed Iraq "Haliburtoina"
- 15. Michael Chertoff sold his stock in "Levees R Us" shortly before Katrina
- 16. John Ashcroft recorded an album of sensual Christian poetry called "Stigmatarotica"
- 17. George Allen stuffed a polar bear head in an Eskimo family's mail box
- 18. The NSA recorded every phone call you made to 1-800-DONKEYS
- 19. Rick Santorum was married in group ceremony to 3 Korean men, 12 schnauzers and a stapler
- 20. Dennis Hastert hid a sexual predator in the House of Representatives...oh, wait...
