The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

In this week's New Yorker, Nora Ephron hilariously lampoons the 1st three of maybe four books in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. If you haven't read the books but plan to (ahem, Husband), you probably shouldn't click the link and read the whole piece. It won't make much sense but it might ...

Wednesday, wherein I deftly combine the Obama New Yorker cover and iphone references into one handy post, just to get it all over with

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Granted, I hadn't had any coffee yet when I saw this headline, but I don't think that's a particularly good excuse. My thoughts were, in this order, although not actually enumerated as such in my head: 1. "I can't believe they used such a derogatory term in this headline." 2. "Using the ...

The New yorker cover. You know the one.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Andrea Plaid joined Culture Kitchen just in time to post the thought-provoking, "Oh look! Hipster bigotry manifests itself at the New Yorker."