Virtual Memories

The dog days of summer require extra-entertaining links, just to raise us from our doldrums! Good thing I have a bunch for you, dear readers!

Are Tish & Snooky better or worse names than Boaz & Gil?

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One of my favorite faux-cialists lives in an apartment on the Upper West Side. It’s always cute when she tells me about the need for equality.

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Here’s a long-ass interview with Joss Whedon, which reminds me: I really oughtta get back to watching those Complete Buffy DVDs with my wife.

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Speaking of my wife, she cannot escape the allure of Food & Wine.

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When I read this piece on eco-hypocrisy by celebrities, I kept hearing the rant at the end of Denis Leary’s song Asshole.

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VM reader Vince C. sends along news that China’s government will not allow reincarnation without the proper paperwork.

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As I tried poking around to come up with a good pun for that last item, I discovered that Tibetan buddhists have a tradition of, um, sculpting with butter. Given his cooking practices, my father-in-law would likely make a very large sculpture.

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My wife recently read Robert Olen Butler’s collection Tabloid Dreams, and enjoyed it. Then she discovered that his life is plenty stranger than his fiction.

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But alcohol mascots are stranger than life.