O ne of the greatest moments I’ve ever seen involving anything that lasts for only 22 minutes happened on a Thursday night in the spring of 2010. James “Toofer” Spurlock (Keith Powell) bounded into Tracy Jordan’s dressing room with some urgency. On his way into work, a stranger called him a…
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The cult of TV brilliance, like a runner on third with less than two outs, demands sacrifice. What unites classic, obsessed-over shows like Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared , and Arrested Development isn’t just their sparkling dialogue; it’s their martyrdom. All three were shows that had plenty of time…
Earlier this month, Brian Dennehy started a new job as chief marketing officer of Nordstrom Inc. In his first week, he pulled aside a colleague to ask a question: How hard it is for a nonemployee to enter the building? Mr. Dennehy doesn't have a particular interest in corporate security. He just…
I hate the gym. At least, I hate “the gym” as imagined by the modern American health club: the mindless repetitions on the weight machines, halfhearted crunches, daytime TV during the treadmill. Such a sad, unimaginative excuse for a life, when I could be out rock-climbing, surfing, or, hell, even…
Contents Brace yourselves, what follows is an amazingly long blog post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn't care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy's Despecialized Editions . They are 720p videos that are the result of…
The following was first published in the excellent e-book The Hall of the Nearly Great , which you'll enjoy if you like baseball, good sportswriting, independent sportswriting or any combination of the above. Kenny Lofton was an athlete, a baseball player, and a great basestealer, but most of all he…
On the set of "The Canyons" in Los Angeles last summer: Amanda Brooks, Lindsay Lohan and Paul Schrader. Jeff Minton for The New York Times Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont as if she owns the place, but in a debtor-prison kind of way. She’ll soon owe the hotel $46,000. Heads turn…
Last night’s Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off faced a lot of stiff competition for our viewing attention. What luck did this senior project of a TV show have against the likes of the Golden Globes, new episodes of Downton Abbey and The Good Wife , and the premieres of Girls, Enlightened , and…
Did anybody have a good 2012? I did not. I have polled a lot of people, or at least some people, and everyone I talked to agrees that 2012 belongs in the garbage bucket. My New Year’s resolution is to buy a garbage bucket. Even Obama, who in 2012 was a doctor office’s magazine’s Person of the Year…
[Translations: Japanese ] Cops, emergency room doctors, and insurance actuarists all know it. They realize how many crazy impossible things happen all the time. A burglar gets stuck in a chimney, a truck driver in a head on collision is thrown out the front window and lands on his feet, walks away;…
Mitch Hurwitz, creator of the comedy canceled seven years ago, says the Netflix model 'flies in the face' of TV. Gob (Will Arnett), Michael (Jason Bateman) and the rest of the Bluth clan resume their bickering in May thanks to Netflix. (Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon) Story Highlights The beloved comedy…
Jerry Seinfeld began his commute after dinner, in no particular hurry. Around quarter to 8 on a drizzly Tuesday, he left his Manhattan home — a palatial duplex apartment with picture windows and a broad terrace overlooking Central Park — and made for a nearby garage. Due to tell jokes at a comedy…
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Tenth Grade Tech Trends A few months ago, my fifteen-year-old sister told me that Snapchat was going to be the next Instagram. Many months before that she told me that Instagram was being used by her peers as much as Facebook. Both times I snickered. Learning from past mistakes, I took some time…
Paul Myers 12.18.12 8:00 AM Ever since Will Rogers stood on a stage with an open newspaper, comedy has evolved and adapted to technological change. In the golden era of network television, Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show was the sole source for satirical reactions to breaking news, and this format has…
Jordan Roseman, a.k.a. DJ Earworm, posted his first mash-up of Billboard’s Top 25 songs on YouTube in 2007, in what was at the time a one-off experiment to see how many songs he could fit together in one track. Five years later, his annual “United State of Pop” mix is a year-end viral staple, with…
Maciej Cegłowski, CEO of Pinboard and creator of the Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud fund. Photo: Joi Ito /Flickr Maciej Cegłowski’s new startup fund was the toast of Silicon Valley on Friday, lighting up Twitter, winning top billing on the elite Hacker News forum, and drawing dozens of…
I used to hate shaving. I ranked it below flossing on my list of bathroom-related activities that I would dread. Of course, no one knew if I skipped flossing; everyone can tell if I skipped a shave. My father taught me to shave using an electric Norelco razor, an approach I stuck with for years. My…
T he story of Lost makes no sense. And by that I don’t mean the story on the show — though this is the point where you can feel free to insert jokes about the numbers, the outrigger shootout, or the reasons why Walt was “special” — but the story of how Lost itself got made. The creation of Lost…
A week ago, I sat in a tiny red room, around a tiny table, to listen to a record. I wasn't alone. Will Hodgkinson from The Times , The Independent 's Andy Gill, and The Mirror 's Priya Élan were there too. Our bags and our phones had been taken away from us. In their place were four…
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[Originally published November 21, 2012.] - - - Last night, Mom and I went to Thanksgiving dinner at a Vegan family’s house, which is kind of like going to Temple for Christmas. Mom said that Vegans are “people that don’t eat any meat or cheese or shave” and, since Mom doesn’t like to cook, she…
For Lucy, Emily, Bonnie, Mom When my niece was born a year and a half ago, I resolved to write her something that she could read as an older child or young adult that would be a distillation of the wisdom of my young mind. I once learned of a conversation that my mother, father, and uncle had had…
I went to see Maurice Sendak last year at his home in Connecticut. The eighty-three-year-old was promoting his latest book, Bumble-Ardy, about an orphaned pig whose ninth-birthday festivities are gate-crashed by teenage swine. He came to the door with his dog, Herman (after Melville), and for the…
Today, I'm going to tell you about the time my grandfather shot a man in the ass. The year was 1949. The place was downtown Los Angeles. The occasion was a robbery with violence. A small store, I think: a tailor's, or maybe a family-run grocery market? History has not recorded all of the details.…
Negotiating the Kiss of Mud obstacle at Tough Mudder Toronto, August 2012. Tough Mudder founder Will Dean. Billy Wilson founded Tough Guy in 1985. Electroshock Therapy. Crossing Hangin' Tough. Scaling Everest. Trench Warfare. Atop Walk the Plank It's a warm March night in New York City. The Wix…
LOUIS C.K. EMERGES from the subway station: sullen, sweating. His balding crown of carrot colored hair is slightly brighter than his ruddy, freckled skin. The man is overweight but solid, like a fullback long past glory, in love with French fries, who still hits the gym. He’s got broad shoulders,…
One of the most controversial political attack ads of the year didn’t originate with an actual candidate or political party. It came from Stephen Colbert. Or more accurately, “Stephen Colbert,” his satirical alter ego. The ad was funded by Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, a super PAC…
Guy’s Big Bite Burger. (Photo via Flickr ) In January of 1968, the beginning of a year when the world caught on fire, Guy Ferry was born in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. And in that moment, though America would not realize it for years to come, she had welcomed into her heartland perhaps her…
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times LIKE Krazy and Ignatz, Carville and Matalin, Cupid and Psyche or Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, the peanut butter and pickle sandwich is one of those unlikely pairings that shouldn’t work, but does. That’s how I’ve always felt, anyway. I’ve been happily eating these…
When "Saturday Night Live" hosts and cast members stare into the camera, hoping to utter their lines with perfect comedic timing on live television, they are focused on one thing only: the cardboard cue cards held up by Wally Feresten. "Wally is a character in every sketch, you just don't see him,"…
O n Sunday, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner flew a helium balloon over the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, to a point higher than any manned balloon flight had reached before — more than 128,000 feet, so high that from inside his pressurized capsule, Baumgartner could look out on the darkness…
There is no mention of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf on the webpage for the win-a-Taylor-Swift-concert contest, which is surprising, since the school received the most votes. Sponsored by Papa John’s and Chegg, an online textbook rental company, the contest promised to send the pop singer to…
The last time Digg was something worth thinking about, Iraq was in the midst of civil war and Justin Timberlake was on the radio. The site went to ruin. It sold for pocket change . And now, with no warning, it's back—and it's beautiful. And the team that pulled it off isn't sure what to do now. Digg…
In 2010, former troupe-mates Donald Glover and DC Pierson returned from Los Angeles to perform at The Creek and The Cave, in New York City. Glover was tossed a question from an audience member: What’s it like working with Chevy Chase? In response, he described how Chase had delivered a 40-minute…
Even after his parachute opened, Tyler Stark sensed he was coming down too fast. The last thing he’d heard was the pilot saying, “Bailout! Bailout! Bail—” Before the third call was finished, there’d come the violent kick in the rear from the ejector seat, then a rush of cool air. They called it…
09.17. 2012 Diane Person and Stephanie Bourque My girlfriend Diane met Stephanie last October at a free makeup event for women with cancer called Look Good Feel Better. It was one of the curious get-togethers you get invited to when you are ill. Women showed up, got a make-up kit, and listened to…
On October 1, 2005 Bill Hader debuted on SNL , feeling lucky and surprised to be there. Now, seven years later, it seems like not much has changed. Hader might be entering his eighth season as the first male cast member since Eddie Murphy to be nominated for an Emmy for his performance on the show,…
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