Posts Tagged with "Spy"

Area 51 at the Santa Monica Public Library

Friday, June 3, 2011

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Okay, so right off the bat know: they didn’t talk about aliens. Which was a shame, because the crowd at the Santa Monica Public Library was Ready for Contact. They were, in fact, aching for it, them and their kids, and got kinda belligerent when it didn’t happen. (After all, 64 years is a long [...]

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Newsbreaks for Tuesday

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

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Audio version is here. Text:A childhood friend of Martin Luther King is preparing to auction off some of King’s papers. The small sheaf includes personal letters, as well as early drafts of some of King’s speeches. For example, “I Have a Dream” was originally called “Hey, Here’s a Thought.” A new craze is sweeping Japan: [...]

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Newsbreaks for Friday

Friday, February 23, 2007

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Click here for podcast version. Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix is testing a new, more sensitive type of x-ray scanner that can actually see through clothing. “Not only will this keep passengers safer, it will also save money,” an airport official said. “People are working security for free.” If the device doesn’t catch on in [...]

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Newsbreaks for Tuesday

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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Podcast now available! The U.S. Navy said Monday that it is considering deploying specially trained dolphins to keep a base near Seattle safe from terrorism. “It’s the perfect solution,” a spokesman admitted. “Not only do dolphins’ remarkable sonar abilities allow them to detect unauthorized swimmers and divers, their inability to speak makes them perfect scapegoats.” [...]

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Spy and Kong

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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Here’s my friend Dave Etkin’s e-Christmas card. Always a treat. Todd Jackson has an in-depth interview with Kurt Andersen here. Fascinating, for the seven or eight of us who like that sort of thing. There’s a puzzling insistence on Mad Magazine as Spy‘s forebear, when Spy‘s lineage is obvious: Private Eye filtered through the graphic [...]

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News of the day…

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

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Apparently cartoonist Aaron MacGruder struck a nerve at the recent birthday celebration for The Nation. The Boondocks creator said that the American left-wing should “be mean” if necessary, doing whatever it takes to win power. He even–horrors!–castigated Gore for losing in 2000. “Noble failure is not good enough,” he said. He’s right. Let’s get rid [...]

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Interesting Interview with Kurt Andersen…

Friday, April 25, 2003

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is here (it’s dead as of 2011, but it’s on Kurt Andersen’s Wikipedia page, so maybe it’s not really dead?). Down near the bottom they talk about why American magazines are so terrible, which as any reader of this blog knows, is because they make their money by pleasing advertisers, not by pleasing readers. American magazines [...]

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A new National Lampoon magazine?

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

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In something scientifically designed to drive me insane, the New York Observer has an article about Rugged Land publishing’s recent attempts to resurrect National Lampoon as a print magazine. (Previous to this, they were planning to do everything BUT a magazine.) I’m dubious that Harvard Lampoon (which forced the 1998 shuttering of J2′s dreadful version, [...]

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