Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
JAMES LILEKS, STEPHEN GREEN, AND MORE: If you missed it on XM or Sirius, the latest PJM Political is now online.
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
May the force be with you and make sure you use some Purell if you need to bury another Jedi’s light-saber James (don’t call him Jim!) Lileks also wrote the following on today’s post: Put up some Christmas lights Sunday afternoon. In response to a tweet announcing that fact, someone responded “oh, you’re one of THOSE people.” [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
JAMES LILEKS IS celebrating Frankenstein.
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
James Lileks takes us on a slide tour of the 1934 Sears catalog . Check out those Depression-era prices and be sure to read his commentary.
MNSpeak | Secrets of the City (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
James Lileks bought a fridge from Best Buy, and it turned out to be something of a clunker. He wanted to company to swap it out for a brand that worked a little better, and discovered that Best Buy would rather repeatedly fix a broken fridge than give you one that works. From his open letter to the Best Buy CEO : N ow. I don’t run a big company, and I have no inside know-how on...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
MICHELLE MALKIN, NORMAN PODHORETZ, JAMES LILEKS, AND DR. HELEN: on the latest PJM Political.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
James Lileks covers the elections, a man getting tasered by police, Gophers behaving badly, Favre, U of M going to Gmail and a Russian liquor warehouse slide.
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
From James Lileks’ The Bleat today: When I was a kid “taking down the Halloween decorations” meant removing the jointed cardboard Ben Franklin skeleton from the window; now it’s like striking the set of an Andrew Lloyd Webber play.” We had one of those skeletons when I was a kid too. The bones were an inexplicable green. [...]
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
James Lileks reports on today's latest news.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
James Lileks hosts today's NewsBreak and talks about big-screen TVs at a sex-offender facility, Antoine Winfield and Kevin Love's injuries, Goldy the Gopher possibly misbehaving and more.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Aimee Blanchette and James Lileks host today's NewsBreak about a rural family's struggle with Alzheimer's, the Vikings win, the balloon boy and the reptilian conspiracy behind it.
Libertyblog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
James Lileks looks at a too little appreciated example of the “boot camp” movie genre.
The Word (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This week’s cartoon isn’t exactly a cartoon, but it has pictures. Execupundit links to James Lileks’ slide show of a 1934 Sears catalog. As Execupundit suggests, check out Sears’ prices and Lileks’ commentary under each slide. Our present Great Recession doesn’t have Great Depression-era prices, but in my opinion, we still have catalogs that’ll...
cold fury (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
DOWN MEMORY LANE before they tax our memories and confiscate the lane for a bike path. From the Summer of ‘08, James Lileks: In the summer of ’78 I was back home in Fargo between college years – exiled from the civilized world, cast into barbarity. During the day I labored under the hot sun painting giant fuel [...]
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Aimee Blanchette and James Lileks host today's NewsBreak Extra about a famous painting coming to Minneapolis, the boy in the balloon, a baby surviving a harrowing incident with a train and more.
