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Dave Chappelle: The Grand Impostor

Dave Chappelle’s “Chappelle’s Show” on Comedy Central is a slaphappy sketch-comedy/variety show that manages to be “racy” and “edgy” (whatever that means, anymore) without ever losing the easy, just-folks sensibilities of vaudeville. The jokes are loud, broad, and obvious, but…

Excerpts from the Hipster Law Treatise

by Peter B. Silverman

Preface:“Hipster” is a word holy to some, yet bandied about by many who view it as a kiddy-club; joinable by any post-undergraduate, Lower East Side-moving gadfly with greasy hair and a Puma jumpsuit. This Treatise seeks to clarify and define…

Polish Fact

Climate:
Temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers.

Learn a Foreign Tongue!

Learn Yiddish!
Der Tog nokh der Morgn.
The Day after Tomorrow.


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Thursday, April 22, 2004   |    Etc.

Speed Reader


From TimeOut New York, April 22–29, 2004

“Speed Reader” by Matthew Shepatin

Featuring an embarrassing picture of your humble coëditor, Josh Abraham (photographed and published without his knowledge), reading aloud his piece, ‘Who’s the Pop-Diva Queen Now, Bitch?’ by Christina Aguilera, with accompanying visual aid, at the inaugural installment of the Ritalin Reading Series at Pianos.







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