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Gossip Girl Gay Eunuch Watch

By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:32 am

Twice now.

How To Get a Job and Keep Your Facebook Profile

By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 5th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

Slate has a piece today on the steps that wannabe-politicians can take to make sure that their Facebook pages don’t result in damaging revelations about…

The Pushback Holiday Mixtape

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

We’ve already told you about the holiday music that you’d best avoid –let’s be honest, some of it is really, really bad. But rest assured…

The Pushback Holiday Nixtape

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Christmas music. It’s pretty well inescapable by now: radio stations have been playing it 24/7 since the week before Thanksgiving, your mother puts it on…

Obsessed: Almond Butter, The Dream, and Strange Maps

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Never Mind the Buzzcocks. It’s this great BBC quiz show about pop music whose 15 years of episodes I am just beginning to discover. -…

Fashion in the Wild: Simple Shirts and Ugly Sweater Watch

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Every week, the best fashion from the parties you missed.

At the right party, sometimes all you need is a white t-shirt.

The Madoff Drinking Game

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Here’s an interesting Urban Dictionary entry:
1. Ponzi Crawl
A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each…

Won’t Somebody Think of Little Adolf Hitler Campbell?

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am

Cause: You name your kid Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Effect: You might have trouble getting a bakery to inscribe the name on a birthday cake.
Deborah…

Video: Grovesnor - “Drive Your Car”

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 16th, 2008 at 9:44 am

Close the Windows! You’re Air Conditioning the Whole Neighborhood!

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

File this under “conspicuous consumption despite worldwide financial meltdown”:
Versace (as in fashion Versace) is building a resort in Dubai. It will certainly be lavish,…

Obsessed: Student Government, Bag Raiders, and Our Dumb World

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Rest. Enough said.
- Daniel Strauss
This Mad TV sketch right here. It’s a few months old but I just found it and it cracks…

Everyone Deserves a Roof

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

The E.D.A.R., for “Everyone Deserves a Roof,” is a wonderful idea–homelessness is one of those problems that can never be completely solved, but if we…

Jon Stewart: “Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality”

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Jon Stewart took on Mike Huckabee on the subject of gay marriage last night. I, for one, vote that we put him in charge of…

Fashion In The Wild: That Hair!

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 10th, 2008 at 9:51 am

Every week, the best fashion from the parties you missed.

This one isn’t so much fashion as style–I completely love her hair.  It suits her,…

Is Gossip Girl Afraid to Go Gay?

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

I’ve been a pretty long-term fan of Gossip Girl–what other show packs as much into each hour as Josh Schwartz’s totally fake (?) drama about…