If you’re anything like us, you’ve been keeping a close eye on Tony Danza’s career over the past 30 years. He won our hearts with “Who’s the Boss,” and God damn it we love him now more than ever. So good news! Danza is taking over the roll of Max in Mel Brook’s “The Producers” musical on Broadway. Thank God, are we right? And look! The little Danza still wears a hood!
A booze that drinks like liquid mint chocolate chip ice cream. Grasshoppers kiss glass rims with bubbly bright green yumminess. As Mom always says, “It’s Christmas, damnit.” So, swallow your familial resentment and these delicious dessert cocktails… and do it together like you mean it for Christ’s Sake. This is another well-honed original recipe.
GRASSHOPPERS:
Shake and strain ingredients into a chilled highball or shallow martini glass. Shush now, it’s family fun time.
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Namely the audio version of John Hodgeman’s book “The Area of my Expertise.” Hodgeman is a daily show correspondent and also plays “PC” in Apple’s “I’m a Mac” commercials. It’s an abridged version of the book, but we’re sure it’s funny anyway, though it’s probably still worth picking up a print copy. Until then, get the audiobook free from the iTunes store.
Good news, Generation Y. Looks like someone at the reigns of a major media conglomerate or two has decided that there’s money to be made in helping us get back in touch with our youth. So we have some pretty great pop culture revivals to look forward to next year, foremost among them: the upcoming Transformers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.
Retail websites roll out stellar design this time of year to get us to click and spend. Internet shopping is much more fun around the holidays because you shake the whole selfish/pointless feeling of meandering around the Internet looking for shit you don’t need. The ultimate ‘Gift Idea’ sections allow you to surf your way out of a lack of creativity. Online gift-giving guides also say a lot about how companies view consumers.
They classify us. How cheap do we want to be? Gifts for $100, $50, c’mon $25! (Spending even less means you don’t really love your family.) What kind of person are you buying for? The foodie. The traveler. The urban sophisticate, which means gay. What relation is the person you’re buying for? Co-workers land bright plastic stuff for the desk. ‘For Him’ means tools and cuff links. Grandmas get lotion and “funky” scarves.
Knock the list-mania funk and go straight for Internet gold with, uh, our list of finds. Seriously, don’t get your sister a drug store boxset of soaps.
Basically, an instant library of every movie worth watching. Sure you run the risk of buying into the DVD format, which may soon be abandoned, but imagine how awesome it would be to unwrap each of the 198 boxes. Also, I’m pretty sure this pays for itself in terms of film education and late fees.
More plunder after the jump.
Global warming may have you sipping iced tea into the depths of December, but no winter is complete without a steaming mug of loosely disguised hard liquor. This recipe comes from the heart and careful experimentation.
1. Combine everything in a mug.
2. Hot tottie! Naked time!
Whales and dolphins recreationally get their slut on in the wild. Sometimes mistakes happen and the tuna nets get a very special catch: wolphins. They’re like bigger, smarter sea geniuses that fortunately still can’t rise against humans for lack of a thumb.
Almost exactly two years ago, the second wolphin in captivity was born in Sea World Hawaii. Luckily, you don’t need to head to a grimy fish tank park to participate in the commercial exploitation of the rare beasty. The just launched DVD magazine “Wolphin” from the hilarious McSweeney’s comes right to your home.
It actually has nothing to do with aquatic life, and yet, it’s still awesome. “Wolphin” is a regular collection of artsy film shorts revolving around an off-beat aesthetic that includes Turkish sitcoms, 1950s Department of Defense reels and trippy little modern stories.
