A Fistful of RebatesIt's halftime. Both teams are in their locker rooms discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half. Diagramming plays. Texting their agents and German supermodel wives. Reviewing Belichick's aerial spy photos. It's halftime in America,...
Journalistic Sun StrokeSometimes our intrepid media class chooses to cover a story that perfectly (if inadvertently) illustrates the real problem: our intrepid media class. Case in point: the Washington Post's Sunday feature on the Solyndra scandal. In reading the headline one initially...
Contain Yourselves, LadiesIt's Yours Truly in my first hot rod. From the bottom of my cowboy boots, thanks all for your continued patronage and best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah.
This Shouldn't Surprise You One BitConfirm it yourself in Google maps, Frodo: Mordor is at the corner of Wabash & La Salle in downtown Chicago. (H/T Ruth Waytz)
Hot Rod HolidayMade another one of my occasional sojourns to Los Angeles last week in which the focus was on fast loud shiny things. Highlights included bombing around downtown LA with Coop in his ginchy '46 Ford sedan (including a drive-by mooning...
Have Yourself a Mies-y Little ChristmasAttended a holiday party a few weeks ago featuring this neato little centerpiece: a gingerbread house replica of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's masterpiece, the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion. Mmmmm, modernly delicious!
Is This Hell? No, It's Iowa[ed note: Found! In a dumpster behind Hamburg Inn, the first draft of University of Iowa professor Stephen G. Bloom's anthropology dissertation for Atlantic magazine explaining the bizarre cultural mores of the primative Aborigines who pay his salary.] IOWA CITY...
NightowahawksAn Edward Hopper satire from reader Doug Harrison, on the occasion of Iowahawk's blog birthday yesterday (click to embiggen). Many thanks to Doug, and to all of you drifters who have dropped into this ol' greasy spoon over the last...
This message will self-destruct in 12 hoursFriday 12/9/2011 Attention Los Angeles & surrounding Tri-State Area! I'm in town today, and depending on your personal point of view, here's your big chance to either drink with or avoid me: Between 4 and 7 this afternoon I will...
With Apologies to Allan ShermanHello Faddah Hello Mama I'm Occupying Camp Obama I'm protesting Wall Street grabbings And trying to avoid the hobo stabbings On my iPhone With my last tweet I down-twinkled Jews on Wall Street Please don't worry About psychosis 'Cause my...
