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...writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine. But listen to the commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise, and you'll learn of Frédéric Chopin's ladybug obsession, Maine's state motto ("Remember the Maine!") and the Depression-era rebellion that resulted in Hobo Joe Junkpan's brief appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. In Hodgman's authoritative prose and hyperrational...
...accidentally sent a welcome message to all 7,000 applicants. There are only 800 spots in each Boalt class. While Ryan Fawaz ’06—an applicant to Boalt—avoided the confusion by being accepted early, he still did not manage to escape another faux pas by the admissions office. “I received an e-mail from Boalt inviting me to their ‘students of color’ dinner, when in fact I’m Caucasian,†Fawaz said. “I talked to some friends...
...attending the three-day course, held monthly at the cozy medieval Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think you're in a trucker's caf?...
...There are three other theories, unique to this year, and all favor Crash. One is that Brokeback, the front-runner after its critics? nods in December and its Golden Globe award in January, made the fatal faux pas of peaked too soon. Whereas Crash, which has lately been getting the majority of Hollywood?s favorite four-letter word, buzz, peaked at just the right time...
There are large differences between your average ironist—a grubby, unkempt faux-Francophone—and the regal presence that is the rarer (yet equally Francophone) “cerebral†ironist. The contrast is like that between mules and donkeys. The former are much like “You Oughta Knowâ€-era Alanis Morrisette, in that they are more properly defined as social satirists than ironists proper. Their most raucous displays of irony are when they attend “The Wedding Date†high, just so that they can snicker loudly...