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An article about an exciting new-ish pet trend in the Style section of the New York Times caught our eye over breakfast this morning. It appears that pet monkeys, long thought to be the province of fantastic tales like Mighty Joe Young, are in fact quite common. Before we scour the city’s pet stores and [...]

Blink-182 announces reunion, pop punk crosses fingers for a revival.
My Little Pony dressed up for Comic-Con.
Twitter strives for genuine deal with His Holiness after his bogus feed attracted 16,000 followers over the weekend.
Usain Bolt gives competitor a face-full of celebration.
It’s so hard to live on $500k in New York City.
The Pepsi Rorschach test logo.
Career woman’s [...]

The big featured article on the New York Times’s front page this morning pertained to the skyrocketing unemployment rates among one of the most disadvantaged workforces in the world: migrant workers in China. The number of those workers without jobs has doubled in the last five weeks, reaching roughly 20 million. Though often rendered invisible [...]

We didn’t really watch the Super Bowl this year, but we did watch how the event’s logo was updated into a sweeping, dynamic, green and blue vintage composition from last year’s unimaginative chunky neon red and blue block. We love regularly updated logos (the NBA All-Star Game used to have awesome logos), so we really [...]

President Barack Obama seems to be making good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp within the next year, but that’s no reason to forget all the people who’ve spent years of their lives being illegally detained in the Cuban waterfront prison. As the jail that was not legal enough to be [...]

Liberals, it would seem, are at their most influential in years in U.S. politics. They’re saving the environment, getting Democratic presidents elected, trying to legalize gay marriage (and, on occasion, marijuana), plotting to end the war in Iraq and dictating where various bail-out funds should go. At the dawn of the Obama White House, liberal [...]

While skimming the New York Times this weekend, we came across this piece on the impending nationalization of the majority of American financial institutions. We didn’t see any problem with this, devout socialists that we are, until we realized that this would mean the demise of an oft-overlooked section of the advertising art sector. Sure, [...]

We never thought we’d see the day that e-cards became anything more than corny substitutes for regular cards (which are already, in most cases, quite corny). While trying to dodge Obamaguration stories in yesterday’s New York Times, we ran across a fascinating article in the Health section on the growing trend of using e-cards to [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]

Onesie here with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Since it’s a quiet time for my other gigs like freelance mascot work (most leagues are in their off-seasons right now) and sports writing (most publications are cutting back on freelance sports coverage), I’ve had lots of time lately to catch up on [...]