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• August 06, 2009
  John Hughes, 1950-2009
  By Mike Miliard

  A fine montage to remember him by from our old friend Paul Proulx (a/k/a barringer82).
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• July 07, 2009
  Larry King is on Twitter...just like old times
  By Mike Miliard

  
  
  
  I dunno why I didn't check a long time ago to see whether Larry King was on Twitter.
  
  It just stands to reason, doesn’t it?
  
  After all, he was Tweeting for many years before the phenomenon even had a name.
  
  King’s USA Today column was sadly dropped eight years ago after a near-two-decade run, but in its heyday it was must-read material — its “apparently aimless concatenation of musings and meanderings, plugs, name-drops and nostalgia” a veritable goldmine of bugfuck crazy stream-of-consciousness.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• June 26, 2009
  The Jacko auction that wasn't
  By Mike Miliard

  

  Comedian Paul Scheer -- of Human Giant fame -- paid a visit a couple months back to the auction preview of "property from the life and career of Michael Jackson" at the Neverland Ranch.

  He returned, perhaps somewhat shaken, with this Flickr photostream.

  The auction was eventually canceled, maybe because, once Jackson signed on for that slate of 50 shows at London's O2 Arena, the need for an a massive cash infusion to shore up his disastrous finances was obviated.

  

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• June 26, 2009
  What might have been...
  By Mike Miliard

  
  From the Twitter feed of Editor & Publisher ed Greg Mitchell: “Last nite I quoted from a '72 Crawdaddy piece that I edited, in which Michael J said he wanted to tour with favorite band...Jethro Tull!”
  
  Also: The award for best Jacko mourning photo goes to this one.

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• June 23, 2009
  "You really think you're fooling everybody, don't you?"
  By Mike Miliard
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• June 22, 2009
  Bluth Family Values
  By Mike Miliard

  
  “We were, like, desperate. We use to tell people to watch it, and no one would.”
  -Maebe Fünke
  
  

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• June 16, 2009
  State Department intervened, postponed Twitter maintenance
  By Mike Miliard

  And that's why the site's down now, instead of last night -- a/k/a broad daylight in Iran.
  
  They get it. And so does he, at least so far.
  
  (Ironclad rule of thumb: if Bill Kristol says you should be doing something, you should be doing precisely the opposite.)

  They don't. Not when it comes to Iran, and certainly not when it comes to Twitter

  
  
  
  
  

  

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• June 16, 2009
  Happy Bloomsday
  By Mike Miliard

  
  In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis
  
  Before Nelson’s pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Clonskea, Rathgar and Terenure, Palmerston park and upper Rathmines, Sandymount Green, Rathmines, Ringsend and Sandymount Tower, Harold's Cross.
  
  
  

  

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• June 02, 2009
  Thoughts on Conan's First Night
  By Mike Miliard

  
  
  This woman almost certainly wasn’t watching, but I sure was. And it was as great as anyone could’ve hoped for. Keep it up, Conando.
  
  At last! After three months of dark and lonely nights, it feels so good to be back in the ConeZone.
  
  That Forrest Gump-esque cross-country run, a nod to the first scene of his first show, was really well done.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• May 29, 2009
  Memes from a bad dream
  By Mike Miliard

  No Winnebago Man.
  
  
  
  No Numa Numa guy.
  
  
  
  No Little Superstar.
  
  
  
  The dynamite booms no longer, and only the echoes of the "small daring boy's" chortling remain.
  
  

  
  
  Something about Waxy.org's "meme scenery" is profoundly unsettling. The silent emptiness seems to whisper balefully, like those scenes in 28 Days Later, or an old mining ghost town, or Prypiat
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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