August 2011
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Hurricane Babies
I’m excited for all the Hurricane babies to be born in New York City next Memorial Day. Power outage + fear of death = baby bonanza. Honestly, Netflix Streaming was the only thing keeping the birth rate in check as it is. Expect a lot of babies with the middle name “Irene,” except in Williamsburg, where they’ll probably go with “Katrina,” just for the irony of...
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From the archives: The trailer for “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World vs. The Predator”
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Back on April 20th, I interviewed Ike Shehadeh, the proprietor of ground-breaking SF sandwich shop Ike’s Place. What better day to discuss gigantic, delicious sandwiches than 4/20? We talk about Gavin Newsom, reality TV, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, and whether Ike would ever let Sean’s girlfriend design a sandwich.
4/25/11
themonkeysyouordered:
We should have flown inside the plane.
This Tumblr of literal New Yorker cartoon captions is my favorite thing of the day.
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London tries tripling police presence to end riots →
As panic spreads through the streets of London, British authorities refuse to consider my foolproof solution: hanging the DJ. They’re already burning down the disco, after all.