Currying Infavor
Putting in his bid for giant asshole of politics this week is Britain's Lord Archer. In an interview with a young Indian journalist, in India, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party said Indians w...
Black, White, and Read Elsewhere
The newspaper may be gasping its last breaths in the U.S., but as a middle class emerges in China and India, newly literate and monied types are bumping up global circulation of newspapers. According to a repo...
Weiner Woos
I don't know how reputable of a paper The Hindu is, but this "article" is hilarious. New York Congressman Raymond Weiner is "wooing" Clinton's aide Huma Abedin. He's Jewish and she grew up i...
Penny Games
You know how sometimes, when you open an account of some sort online (PayPal, Schwab, etc.) they deposit a couple of cents in your bank account and then have you verify the amount? I always thought there was so...
Oh Appease!
Gawker's clip of the week is f-ing hilarious, if you can bear to hear this rightwing douchebag shout the word appeaser a hundred times. Classic. And may we just say, Chris Matthews, welcome back. We were sort o...
_Unsettled_ : The _Heeb_ Review
I'll be honest. I didn't know much about the evacuation of Gaza when I hunkered down to watchUnsettled, nor had I heard or read anything about the film itself. Which is probably why I liked it. That and the fac...
Who Are You Looking At, Einstein?
A letter Albert Einstein wrote back in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000 at auction this week. Given that the letter describes Einstein's view that, across the bo...
Fallon Gong
In more news about how 2009 will suck a little bit more, Jimmy Fallon held a press conference to talk about how he's taking over for Conan O'Brien next year....
Isn’t It Ironic?
Scarlett Johansson confirmed her engagement to Ryan "Van Wilder" Reynolds yesterday. Reynolds dumped his former fiance, Alanis Morissette, for Scarlett in February 2007, coincidentally around the same...
It’s Like Pop Culture, Only Less Interesting
I don't know if I want to read a whole book about it, but Daniel Radosh's premise in his recently published book Rapture Ready! is certainly interesting. Basically, instead of avoiding secular culture altogethe...
The Airborne Toxic Event: The _Heeb_ Interview
Named for a line in the Don DeLillo book White Noise L.A. band The Airborne Toxic Event suddenly found itself this year with a shit-hot full-length album recorded and a song in regular play on a major radio sta...
_Blade_ Gets Made
Somebody should've taken advantage of the accountants at Heeb's Hollywood Party....
