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Look At Me, I’m Sandra Lee
The original: The revival, via New York magazine’s cover story about Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his First Girlfriend: The Ravenous and Resourceful Sandra Lee Determined to become a down-market Martha...
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Mariano Rivera: “Pitching God”
From our Late to the Going-Away-Party desk Last week – the hardworking staff has a serious periodical backlog – New York magazine ran a cover story on Mariano Rivera that was as sharp as the cut...
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A (Jason) Gay Ol’ Time (The Great Rivera Edition)
The Wall Street Journal’s redoubtable Jason Gay gets it pitch-perfect in his latest column: Let’s Be Cool Like Mariano Rivera I have a new dream, a fresh life goal. I want to be more like Mariano...
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Let the $9b Rumpus Begin! (Ad Early and Often Edition)
The air wars of Dustup 2016™ have gone from zero to :30 in no time flat. So the hardwatching staff is pleased to provide this handy clip ‘n’ save guide to the preliminary rounds, which range from the...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (The Divine Patti LuPone Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to catch one thing and another and say, it was swell. First, of course, there was crosstown traffic, which takes roughly 30 minutes to...
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Claire McCaskill’s Fabulous Scott Brownout
New York magazine’s Marin Cogan has a corker of a piece in The Cut today (tip o’ the pixel to Politico’s Morning Score). Drinking Beer and Watching Baseball With Senator Claire McCaskill — the Most...
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Quote o’ the Day (Fact-Free Donald Trump Edition)
From our Department of Redundancy department This week’s cover story in New York magazine, Gabriel Sherman’s Operation Trump, contains this priceless, factually challenged quote from the GOP’s Hair...
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One America, Two Different Worlds (Jonathan Chiat Edition)
First in what promises to be a long-running series It’s news to no one that liberals and conservatives in this great land of ours live in parallel universes. But with the ascension of Hair Apparent...
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Steve Mnuchin’s Dad Ran an Ad in the New York Times
Well the hardworking staff was leafing through the New York Times yesterday and what did we come across but this quarter-page ad in the A section. Of course that got us to wondering: Mnuchin Gallery –...
View ArticleWhen a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Uphill Lift’ Edition)
From our annual That’s Just Sad desk As the hardworking staff wends its way through this veil – sorry, vale – of tears, we’ve felt obliged to keep track of the mangled phrases employed by our...
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