opinion
This Guy Can’t Win
It’s bad enough that he’s the long-suffering, inferior-product-offering cable guy in the Verizon FIOS commercials…. But now, apparently, he’s dropping a pancake on the kitchen floor in an Egg McMuffin ad. Sigh.
The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
Last Saturday in these pages, Frank suggested that I run a 5K, ostensibly to meet women. Never one to back down from a challenge, I completed the Paramus Run 10K on the very next day.OK, OK, it wasn’t that spur-of-the-moment: I’d run the same race in 2004, ’06, and ’07 (missing ’05 due to an […]
Altar the Laws
Gay marriage is back in the news. On the positive side of the ledger, Connecticut just became the third state to legalize same-sex marriages. On the negative side, both vice presidential candidates were quick to denounce gay marriage in their recent debate. I have to wonder: Among those who have railed against same-sex marriages, how […]
Lee Israel Is Real
How heartening it has been over the past week and a half to see the phoenix-like return of my friend Lee Israel. She has soundly disproved F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tired axiom “There are no second acts in American lives.” By my count, we’re up to at least Lee’s fourth act. And who knows, she may […]
Who Are You, Third Guy on the Pineapple Express Poster?
You’re not Seth Rogen. You’re not James Franco. You’re not Jason Statham, I know that. So, who are you? Oh, it’s a rhetorical question. I could go to the official website and learn your identity. I could read the credits on the poster and see three additional names and figure it out by process of […]
Team Silbert
I like Facebook. I still heavily rely on MySpace to follow my favorite bands. But for my overall social-networking and time-wasting needs, I’ve appreciated Facebook’s much cleaner look and smarter, less sleazy feel. Still, Web sites need to make money. Facebook has tried to stay innovative with social ads (“your friend is a fan of […]
Portmanteau, Part Deux
We love our portmanteau words here at Salt in Wound. But with great power comes great responsibility. So I believe we must also serve as Portmanteau Police, seeking out infractions of the form. Case in point: A radio commercial for the Subaru Forester that I’m guessing is not airing in the greater Topanga area. The […]
Thanks, Amazon!
E-mail I just received: Greetings from Amazon.com. You saved $0.02 with Amazon.com’s Pre-order Price Guarantee! The price of the item(s) decreased after you ordered them, and we gave you the lowest price. The following title(s) decreased in price: The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 (Complete Peanuts)Price on order date: $19.13Price charged at shipping: $19.11Lowest price before release […]
Jack Silbert, curator