The very staid and proper New Yorker

Has a fairly ribald comics blog, this week featuring ascotted gadabout Chris Onstad of Achewood fame.

Possible Dullard Feat of Strength

Scale the New York Times building, like at least three guys have done in recent months.

Possible downsides:

— Getting arrested.
— Plummeting to your death.

Furry convention

With video.

So it went

Improbably, Kurt Vonnegut has a new book out. Newsweek has an excerpt.

Graydon Carter hates Christopher Hitchens

Boy, did he get punk'd....

We've got you covered

As detailed here and mentioned elsewhere on this blog, we Dullards love to talk about covers of songs. Here's more fodder for that ongoing conversation, with a Canadian twist:

• The CBC lists the best, worst and weirdest covers of songs written by Canadians. Nirvana's version of "Seasons in the Sun" is mentioned.

• Canadian rocker Neil Young offers "A Day in the Life" before a somewhat bemused audience in Spain. He uses his famous feedback to fill in the orchestral sections.
  

One more reason...

...to vote for Obama. Change we can believe in!

Wig out

Wigs for cats. Who woulda thunk?

Food of the 1970s

What did you eat in the 1970s, assuming you were alive and eating solid foods then? Here's a day in the typical '70s diet, as recalled by Dullard bloggers. Looking back, it's remarkable that we thrived.

BREAKFAST
Carnation Instant Breakfast
Count Chocula (or Life if you're on a health food kick)

LUNCH
Chef Boyardee spaghetti
Fruit cup
Hawaiian Punch

AFTER SCHOOL SNACK
Hostess cupcake
Pop Rocks
Teem soda

DINNER
Tuna casserole
French-cut Del Monte green beans
Tapioca pudding
Nestea instant iced tea

OTHER POPULAR ENTREES
Hamburger Helper
Beef stroganoff
Liver and onions
Fondue (for swingin' grownups after the kids are in bed)

George Carlin is no longer with us

The profane funnyman is dead at age 71. So it goes.

Read about the "seven dirty words." It's how he'd like to be remembered.

Save the spin room!

The McCain campaign has proposed a series of "town hall" meetings with Barack Obama. The details are yet to be worked out, but they probably will be.

McCain says he doesn't want a "spin room" at these events. (That's the place where campaign minions offer their views to the media on how each candidate did.) We at the Gazette say the opposite: save the spin room, if only so Triumph the Insult Comic Dog can reprise his hilarious visit there.

Pour a true pint

Some establishments are cutting corners by thickening the bottom of pint glasses, resulting in less beer in the container and less in your belly.

This is just wrong.

Want to bum somebody out?

Send them this picture. Do not click on that link yourself. It will only bum you out.

Q&A with Hans Zimmer

The soundtrack specialist discusses "Batman" and how he was influenced by the Damned.