January 2011
2 posts
Why is the media up Ted Williams' butt?
Ted Williams, a homeless man with a perfect old school radio announcer voice, is the media’s newest slow-news-day darling. Williams’ rags-to-riches story is a lowest common denominator tearjerker. But more dangerously, it also propagandizes serendipity, hope, and the American Dream.
Author and newspaper columnist David Sirota exposes the dark side of this story’s...
Tiffany + Debbie Gibson + 2011 = YES
In case you can’t read fliers and need me to type it out for you in black text on a white background, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, the idols and heroes of every prepubescent girl in the 1980s, are playing a show. TOGETHER. IN 2011. FOR TWENTY DOLLARS. Yaaaasssss.
According to the Village Voice, this one-off show is to give New Yorkers a sweet dose of nostalgia in order to create buzz about...
