Last night marked the debut of one of the television season’s most anticipated shows, the regrettable “Jersey Shore” on MTV. Basically the premise of this show is to follow a group of the stupidest guidos on the planet as they dog-paddle through their shallow existence at a certain outpost in New Jersey — official maligned [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Friday random 10’
October 30, 2009
Friday Random 10: You can’t overestimate Gerry Callahan
Father Scott
On my delicious nine-minute commute this morning, I got to hear the dulcet tones of Gerry Callahan say the following on EEI (paraphrased):
“You can’t overestimate the importance of the return of Brett Favre to Green Bay.”
Oh, Gerry, Gerry, Gerry. I’m afraid you don’t know me well. Watch how I overestimate this:
I say the return [...]
August 7, 2009
Friday Random 10: Abbey Road Edition
Pax Arcana
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic photograph of John, Paul, George, and Ringo crossing Abbey Road. The picture was used as the album art on the Abbey Road album, and is a living reminder that British people have always walked in single file. No one knows why.
If Paul McCartney were alive today, [...]
July 10, 2009
Friday Random 10: Excuses, excuses edition
Pax Arcana
Sorry for the extreme paucity of highbrow musings lately. There are several reasons for this. The first is that the radiant and scrupulous Mrs. Pax Arcana and I are in the process of painting our house — the only human activity that goes from “exciting” and “fun” to “suicidally excruciating” faster than being governor [...]
June 26, 2009
Friday Random 10: Michael Jackson Edition
Pax Arcana
As is so often the case at times of great upheaval, the world now looks to me to make sense of the death of Michael Jackson.
Very well.
Michael Jackson was the capstone of a line of cultural touchstones who bridged the gap between “white” and “black” music. Like Elvis, Otis Redding, and Smokey Robinson before [...]
May 29, 2009
Friday Random 10: Couch Potato Edition
Pax Arcana
It’s well-documented that Americans are the corpulentest bastards on the planet, each of us requiring a small army of Malaysian porters to tote our belongings as we wheeze our way back to the buffet line at Sizzler.
Many blame our sedentary lifestyle. We drive everywhere, we hate the outdoors, and who has time for exercise [...]
May 22, 2009
Friday Random 10: Three Wolf Moon Edition
Pax Arcana
Often people ask me, “Pax — how am I to understand the Internet, when it is ever so vast and so frightfully arranged in a series of blind corners and funhouse mirrors?” And I say “Stop talking like a queer.”
I then expand on my point to say that the beauty of the Internet exists [...]
May 15, 2009
Friday Random 10: Honest Pint Edition
Pax Arcana
Last year we wrote about the growing scourge of “falsies,” which are basically 14 ounce beer glasses made to look like pints so bars can charge you for a full beer without giving you one. Obviously this is abhorrent behavior and the most deceptive use of glass since my college roommates tricked me into [...]
April 3, 2009
Friday Random 10: Ballpark Beer Edition
Pax Arcana
When I lived in Colorado, I thought the fact that they didn’t serve Coors beer at Coors Field (only Budweiser products) was the most preposterous beer-related ballpark reality.
Not any more. According to New Stadium Insider (via With Leather), the new Yankee Stadium features coolers labeled — and I’m not shitting you — Retro Beer, [...]
March 20, 2009
Friday Random 10: Sudoku Edition
Pax Arcana
According to USA Today (helllllllooooo business travelers!), a computer science professor at Winthrop University says he’s perfected a fool-proof guide to solving Sudoku puzzles.
If you’re not familiar with Sudoku, imagine staring a grid divided into three rows and three columns that are themselves subdivided into three rows and three columns. Some of the [...]
