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Lego Than Life

Last week in Toronto, the Guinness Book of World Records documented the largest Lego tower ever erected. The tower ended up reaching 96 feet and using 465,000 bricks. Unlike one failed Jenga master, its creator...
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Six-String For Sale

In September, the Fame Bureau in London is scheduled to auction off one of Jimi Hendrix's famed Fender Stratocasters, but it's kind of a surprise that it's only estimated to be worth around one million dollars....
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Matador Records 5, _Heeb_ 1

After a brutal six innings filled with strikeouts, errors and assbackward baserunning, _Heeb_ redeemed itself in the final hour of this week's whiffleball game at Central Park in Manhattan (sponsored by Saucony...
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George Carlin: The Heeb Interview

Okay, so I didn't exactly get to interview the legendary comedian face-to-face, but in my pubescent years, I pestered a bunch of entertainers with questionairres via snail mail. Carlin was one of the few cele...
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_Fair_ Play?

Last week, Wormser (above) and the rest of us spent an afternoon in Central Park and took another softball-schooling from another magazine, but the post-game rants online from Vanity Fair's head coach are altog...
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Waste of _Time_

On Monday, Time magazine released its 50 Best Websites of 2008, and it's stupid. In a sad attempt to come across like professional websurfers who've got the scoop on up-and-coming domains, the digital arm of th...
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Pisa Party

Personally I can't imagine anyone going to the trouble of constructing 12,000 pieces of Jenga into a Tower of Pisa just to watch it fall to shambles, but I'm glad someone did. ...
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Ice Cream Scheme

A British cookware outfit expects to sell shitloads of their latest product, the rotating ice cream cone, to dairy lovers everywhere who hate it when the summertime treat gets runny and melts all over your hand...
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Shia LaDouche

Even though it's been weeks since I've seen the film, I'm still having a difficult time getting the taste of shit out of my mouth from Steven Spielberg's latest popcorn fare. That the fourth Indiana Jones insta...
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Pigging Out

It's no secret that I'm a fan of the forbidden flesh. Be it in a martini, a video game, or wrapped around deep-fried hot dogs, those wonderful strips of bacon provide a flavor and taste that's damn near erotic...