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Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Wonderful Weird Wedding of White Owl and Child Bride

I have been neglecting coverage of Lawrence area crazies these days. I still don’t think anyone can top Dennis, who bicycles around downtown in little girls’ clothes and professes a deep love of Sheryl Crow; or Precious Love, who warped into our town from the early 70′s, wearing a violet beret, and waves peace signs [...]

The World is Right Again

Congratulations Stephanie! At the end of a nail-biter finale episode, in which sour-faced villain Lisa seemed to be getting the winner’s edit, sanity prevailed and the more consistently strong competitor took the gold. Hoorah! I do have to grudgingly admit that Lisa cooked her ass off during the final, and her tom kha gai actually [...]

Top Chef: the 91 percenters

Once again, Lisa fucked up badly, but benefited from someone else screwing up even more. Not only that, but she further justified audience hatred by petulantly whining to the two (real) top chefs: “I know you’re sad Antonia is going home but the least you could have done was congratulate me.” YOU SHOULD NOT BE [...]

Okay okay, we get it already!

When I came into work this Monday, I noticed that the stairs by my office were taped off, with bright red police tape instead of the usual “Caution: Wet Floor Signs.” Thought nothing of it, until one of the janitors mentioned that the fire marshall was in the building, telling people to stay off those [...]