An Easter Reading from the Book of David Sedaris

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David Sedaris: Jesus Shaves 

Praise for David Sedaris:

“Sedaris is the preeminent humorist of his generation.” (Entertainment Weekly Whitney Pastorek )
“David Sedaris is horribly observant. He sees things as they are…. He’ll be telling some weird story, and all of a sudden, just at the end, it turns out not only to be about him, but also about you.” (New York Observer Nancy Dalva )

He’s all that and more, which is why I’ve invited him (or at least his disembodied voice) to share an appropriately seasonal story about French class, Easter traditions and–true to the quote above–himself and us.

The Beach Boys–Minus the Autotune


Did you know the Beach Boys relied heavily on autotune? Here’s how they sounded without it…

It Takes a Village to Write a Lyric This Bad

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Adding a layer of irony: that’s four male producers and five male writers plus Bey herself, the extent of whose “writing” role in this anthem of feminist empowerment may reasonably be questioned.

Perfect Matches

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Spike and Iris’ Ubercool Wedding

Do you know these people?

Video of the Week: The Capitol Steps–‘Take Ten Pills and You’re Fine’

The Capitol Steps have been putting the mock in Democracy for over thirty years now. As songs and albums with titles like Take the Money and Run for President, Liberal Shop of Horrors and “Embattled Hymn of the Republicans” suggest, no one on either side of the proverbial aisle is safe from their razor-sharp skewering.

Here they take aim at the pill-pushing pharmaceutical companies.

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