Archive for November 2009

Happy Holidays, Mother F*ckers!

Nov 30th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Featured Articles

It’s official now. No more running from or ignoring it. The holidays are upon us. They’ve come for the contents of our checking accounts, as well as our reserves of common sense and self-esteem.
Having stuffed ourselves full of turkey, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and stuffing last Thursday, watched professional football, college football, college basketball, [...]



What We Talk About When We Talk About the NFL, Week 11

Nov 24th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Sports

Inexcusable was the first word that came to mind, Embarrassing the second. Punishable by jail time is a phrase I just came up with that seems to work. Disgusting sums it up pretty well.
A couple weeks back I wrote a Plea for Sanity to the Philadelphia Eagles on the occasion of their loss on the [...]



Make the Road by Walking, Part Eleven

Nov 24th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Life and Times

By Todd Lazarski
Up and down Telegraph, up and down College, ‘no bars’ suddenly assuming a new, pervasive meaning. Carousing Berkeley began leisurely and languorously, buoyed by Uncle John’s send-off gift and only a notion of creeping thirst. Now though, devolving over the course of hours and a budding new traveler’s chappedness between my legs, that [...]