Opinion
LIFE LESSONS
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“You know, the Riggins boys came over for dinner the other night. You an Tim, you still best friends, aintcha?” “I guess so.” “You guess so. Well the parents did a number on those kids, that’s for sure.” “Well, uh. Everyone’s got a sad story. Doesn’t excuse anything.” friday night lights
“This is an arranged marriage.”
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Friday Night Lights. Two boys whose critical opinions I esteem highly, who know about these things and like them for the right reasons, they have been tryna convert me to this show for a year. My general response: “I don’t give a shit about football.” Or something to that effect. I still don’t (give a […]
LILA GARRITY: SOLILOQUY
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“I don’t know how to talk to you when you’re like this. I mean, God! It’s not even seven o’ clock and you can barely stand. You can blame me if you want, Tim. You can blame the whole world for all I care. But if you think being drunk all the time’s gonna make […]
JASON STREET’S TEETH
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I have never seen a set so straight, so clean. Jason Street, You are a good man. I’m sorry it’s medically dangerous for you to evacuate [sic]. Why the hell am I weeping over a two-point conversion? What the hell IS a two-point conversion? Friday Night Lights
A LANGUAGE OF CONVENIENCE
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“At various times, the [Japanese] masses were denied everything: soba, sugar, tea, rice. When meat was outlawed, the eating of deer was justified by referring to the creatures by the magical euphemism ‘mountain whales.’” (The above-linked five-page spread in the times on Tokyo cuisine is pretty good, and mostly not written from the “stranger in […]
SO SO DEF SNEAKIN ‘ROUND
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I was wondering what Jermaine Dupri got Janet for her birthday (my birthday) and lo! GOT THIS ON THE MYSPACE BBS:
NYC-BCN
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Once and former Barcelonans: is there a craigslist-style thing for the city? for flat swaps / permanent housing? jawnita@gmail.com is calling.
MAMA MIA
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Whatever cable channel I’m watching just aired some Mother’s Day bit about Blythe Danner, glorious mother to Gwyneth Paltrow, and how she passed on her genetic ability to look simultaneously demure and fragile in a ball gown or some shit. And I thought, with all the celebrity mom-coms airing this weekend, there’s someone else who […]