I was watching the Super Bowl with some co-generationalists, all of whom were eagerly awaiting The Who’s halftime show. In the end, we all thought it was hugely embarrassing for Townshend and Daltrey. Wheezing your way through a greatest-hits medley? Lord have mercy. It felt like Branson with laser beams, or like a Simpsons parody…

Child, child, I am just back from a Super Bowl party, and I cannot believe I’m typing the words: The New Orleans Saints are the champions of the world! I mean, damn! My dad phoned to say: “You tell those people you with: WHO DAT!?” Yeah! Oh, to be in New Orleans tonight. To be…

I am willing to open this forum up for liveblogging Snowmageddon. The first sprinkling of the white stuff has just begun to fall here in Philadelphia. It’s soft and beautiful — but that’s clearly what this Mephistophelian precipitation wants us to think. I have already put away two bowls of shrimp etouffee and a tall…

Boing Boing brings us news that the heartless communiss cretins running the Shanghai outpost of the police state are going after fashion-forward citizens who wear pajamas in public. An iron curtain descends! Meanwhile, in a blow for sartorial liberty, I went out this morning to buy bread at a bakery down the street wearing sweatpants…

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