December 2008
WFAN’s Craig Carton does great “Mad...
NY Post: Bargain Hunter Heaven →
I’m in today’s New York Post:
Zach Linder, 23, an ad salesman from Brooklyn, said that in prior years he would never even consider going shopping the day after Christmas.
But with the economy continuing to reel, and the Bloomingdale’s gift cards he got for Hanukkah burning a hole in his pocket, he said the sales were too good to skip.
“I got here really early because I...
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NYT: CBS’s Repeats Edge Out ‘It’s a Wonderful... →
patbaer:
zachlinder:
NBC’s traditional Christmas Eve broadcast of “It’s a Wonderful Life” came close to leading the ratings, but CBS’s crime-drama repeats eked out a victory on Wednesday night. According to Nielsen’s estimates, CBS’s “Criminal Minds,” with 6.3 million viewers at 9 p.m., and “CSI:NY,” with 6.8 million at 10, earned the largest audiences for the night.
It’s official: America...
NYT: CBS’s Repeats Edge Out ‘It’s a Wonderful... →
NBC’s traditional Christmas Eve broadcast of “It’s a Wonderful Life” came close to leading the ratings, but CBS’s crime-drama repeats eked out a victory on Wednesday night. According to Nielsen’s estimates, CBS’s “Criminal Minds,” with 6.3 million viewers at 9 p.m., and “CSI:NY,” with 6.8 million at 10, earned the largest audiences for the night.
It’s official: America has no soul.
“I got it, Rand McNally.”
– Jim Ross, after Tazz explained that Montreal and Toronto are separate cities on tonight’s episode of WWE SmackDown
5 Famous Christmas Songs Written by Jews →
davidfuternick:
Oh, man, why’d “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” have to be one of them?
The Free Design - Close Your Mouth (It’s...
WatchThe Daily Show’s Best Hanukkah Moments
“I’m like, ‘Is she a Kennedy Kennedy, or is this one of the cousins?’ She’s the...”
– Bess Goden, 23, in Sunday’s Times
Gothamist: Pencil This In →
Thanks, Gothamist!
Hanukkaos is tonight!
ucbw:
COMEDY: Professional wrestling is pretty wacky in and of itself. Then there’s UCBW, the Upright Citizen Brigade Theater’s regular comedy wrestling sendup show that takes that ridiculousness to the next level with characters like Frat Boy, Cakeface and Con Edison’s Uncle Eddie. And then, there’s the UCBW’s holiday show Hanukkaos, where they take...
NYT: Introducing the Mets' New Setup Man - Name... →
The word “putz” is vulgar Yiddish slang for penis. It is more often used in English as a synonym for fool or idiot.
“It seems like when bad words go from Yiddish to English, they lose some of their power,” said Paul Glasser, an associate dean at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Manhattan.
The columnists Steve Kelley of The Seattle Times and Art Thiel of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
“I walked in something of a cynic, figuring there was no way an actor could ever...”
– NY Mag: Mick Foley, on The Wrestler
Somebody told me how to change the background image on my tumblr, so I did. It is now the same as my twitter.
“Radio stations in other cities sponsor their own Jingle Balls, but the one at...”
– NYT: They Are So Going to Jingle Ball This Year by Stephanie Rosenbloom [via Gothamist]
