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- Programming Note May 13, 2013B2L2 continues to publish on a monthly schedule, but now the month’s posts will be published in clusters of 2-4, roughly once a week, instead of all at once. […]Derek Bridges
- Monsters May 13, 2013[…]Gerald Cannon
- Narasimha May 13, 2013As a kid, I was fascinated with the tales of the ten avatars of the Hindu god Vishnu. Brahma creates, Siva destroys and Vishnu is the man in the middle who preserves, he keeps the universe going. According to Hindu mythology, there are ten times when things got so bad on Earth that Vishnu had to take on a mortal form and show up to, you know, preserve. Retur […]Maitri
- Five Monsters May 13, 20131. The Alien There are so many great monster movies. Monsters from the deep. Monsters from outer space. Monsters from the laboratory. The walking, crawling, shuffling, sprinting dead. My favorite monster movies? Off the top of my head? Nosferatu. Frankenstein. Godzilla. Alien and Aliens. Let’s see, that’s one vampire, one experiment gone horribly wrong, one […]John Hicks
- Bride of Svengoolie May 13, 2013In first grade, while doing a Svengoolie impression in the mirror in the bathroom, I was discovered by a teacher who moonlighted as an actor at the Robert Young Repertory Theater, a leftover from when Smithville was a resort town, a place where Chicagoans would go to avoid the summer city heat. The teacher was hiding in the middle stall, cloistered for a mom […]John Sheppard
- Where in the hell is Jimmy Gabacho? May 13, 2013Rumors have been flying across the internet regarding the whereabouts of Jimmy Gabacho. He hasn’t posted anything since March and was last seen in a seedy airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, getting ready to catch the Cape Air flight 269 heading to the West Indies. When this reporter spotted him, he declined to comment about his recent activities, which set […]Jimmy Gabacho
- Television April 17, 2013[…]Gerald Cannon
- Ode to TV theme songs April 17, 2013Is the television theme song a dying art? Although I watched a lot of television, few current running shows' themes get me to hurry me back from raiding the fridge other than the intros to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Most of my favorites are from the 1970s — TV's golden age for theme songs. Chalk it up to a combination of my age, gender, […]Tom Long
- The Macroeconomics of Girls April 17, 2013In HBO’s Girls Hannah Horvath, a precocious Oberlin grad moves to The Big Apple, where she interns at a publishing house for two years–entirely on her parents’ dime. A reliable foundation for a privileged American success story? One would hope. But Girls is not about the guarantee of The (or even “an”) American Dream to this protagonist’s upper-middle-clas […]Amorphous Funk
- Television is April 17, 2013television is the devil television is for you television is becoming a reality television is shown television is the root of all evil television is here to stay television is cooperating television is watching you television is my boyfriend television is catching television is “barely” alive television is the electrical transmission television is beautiful t […]Bob Hate
Why I’m (Still) Hot for You, Bobby Jindal
Bobby,
When I came beggin for your state package, you froze me out. I thought you were bein cruel, Baby, but I had no idea how good it would feel to be tied up and on my knees.
You force my market open wide.
Even while you meet your obligations to the state’s athletic programs and prop up health care and education, you still show me your hard hat.
You spank my naughty librarian.
You know the difference between boys and men.
You know how to treat a bad, bad girl like me.
Let the people talk, Bobby. You can page me, anytime. Or just send me a text.
A.F.
Oh, man, that’s funny.
Ingenious.