Now, here’s a tax bill I could get behind.
WHEN BADGERS ATTACK: Not a Fox special. Yet.
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POSEUR ALERT : “Samuel Pepys, the famous 17th-century diarist, mentions crumpets in his diaries. Crumpets are imported from England by Starck & Sons, a company based in tree-lined Garden City, Long Island. I would stand leaning on my off-white Formica counter and watch, bleary-eyed and depressed, as the large aluminum toaster glowed brighter and brighter like a sunrise in palm-tree-lined Sevilla, where I spent my junior year abroad, and met Carmencita, my first serious girlfriend, whom I have been reluctantly seeing in an addictive, destructive, co-dependent relationship, on and off, for 23 years. And then – zing! – the crumpets would pop up, ready to be eaten.” – Lee Siegel, in a passage he claims to have decided not to publish, in a “matutinal fit of frustration and despair.” The guy is beyond parody.
The Dish 