Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...song "Saturday's Cool": I was listening to it this morning, trying to go through and see whether the idea was to have a catalog of things people might have listened to growing up who are now listening to the Eggs record. Because one line is from a Blue Oyster Cult song, "Burn...
...Cool," which may be the most excruciatingly self-concious "underground rock" song I've ever heard: the breaks in between the verses are note-for-note or word-for-word quotes from the songs Eggs listened to ten years ago, meaning not cool obscure postpunk records but Blue Oyster Cult's "Burn Out the Day" and the Who's "Baba O'Riley." And all those quotes are integrated into a genuinely moving song, another one of Beaujon's studies in extended teenage self-hatred: it's hard to remember how the lyrics go, because they're so deadon that they...
...weirdest thing he ever ate: I had curdled blood in Chinatown. It was really good. It tasted like crimson tofu. It curdles in clumps and they chop it into cubes and then pour scallions and oyster sauce over...
...camera, prank-playing fraternity boy. Staffers recall the chaos that ensued during an office celebration several years ago, when he set off a flare in Morton's office and triggered the building's smoke alarms. A couple of weeks ago, Letterman challenged head writer Burnett to an oyster-eating contest: $150 if he consumed 50, $10 for each one thereafter. (Burnett wolfed down...
...indeed, the next day something unprecedented happened. The President canceled his 9 a.m. tee-off at the Farm Neck Golf Club to sleep in, read the papers and stroll around Oyster Pond, where specially outfitted gardeners had cleared away thickets of poison ivy. The McNamara house is spectacularly situated, at the end of a three-mile private road marked by red, white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor...