Archive for March, 2008

The Craziest, Boldest Take on Spitzer I’ve Read Yet

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I’m not a big fan of Cindy Adams, but I have to give it to her….it takes balls to write this:
March 12, 2008 — NO way to write today about the Lindsays, Parises, K-Feds, Katies, Toms, Nicoles or [...]

Great Reading On The Wire

I know a lot of people love reading about TV on Television Without Pity, but for my money no one writes more insightfully about TV than television critic Alan Sepinwall.  A friend of mine told me about him back when he was doing day-after Sopranos recaps for the Newark Star-Ledger, and warned me that no [...]

Pimp Week 3: Iceberg Concluded

This is the final installment of Pimp Week. For this, it’ll be a straightforward post. I’ll be finishing the story I started in these two posts here and here.
When last we saw the pimp Iceberg Slim, he was being tested by his newest, prettiest whore in front of the rest of his stable of older, [...]

Pimp Week 2: Iceberg Slim, Opening Scene Interpreted

This is a follow-up analysis post to this post, which VK, Des and Roissy did a ridiculously good job taking apart in the comments section. Maybe this one was too easy (or the commenters are just too damn good). Anyways, let me see if there’s anything left for me to add. To save you the [...]

Pimp Week 1: Iceberg Slim, Opening Scene

From the opening pages of Pimp by Robert Beck (better known as Iceberg Slim) (slang translations provided by me in brackets):
I grinned widely, inside of course. The best pimps keep a steel lid on their emotions and I was one of the iciest. The whores went into fits of giggles at [bottom bitch] Rachel’s shaky [...]