Urban Kvetch: The Vegetarian Option
The Vegetarian Option
Mr. Parmesan Chicken sitting next to me is served a brownie for dessert and all I get is a piece of cantaloupe and half a grape? I paid the same price for my airplane ticket and yet the s...
Urban Kvetch: Libraries
Libraries
There was a time when Utopian ideals, free love and sticking it to the man were all the rage; when libraries were a place for the free exchange of information and an incubator for ideas. But let’...
Urban Kvetch: Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
While I’m impressed that you predicted that St. Louis Ram Steven Jackson would score a huge number of imaginary points, I’d really prefer that you shut up. Fantasy football is exactly what it ...
Urban Kvetch: Captcha
Captcha
I want to select my item, submit my mailing address and credit card information and call it a day. I do not want to enter some gibberish code that's impossible to decipher just because some a-holes are...
Urban Kvetch: “. . .”
". . .”
How come all of your emails end in “. . .”? What exactly are you trying to imply when you say that you “love my last name. . .” or “We should hang out…”? Your strategically placed form of punctuation i...
Urban Kvetch: Ethnic Restaurant Demeanor
Ethnic Restaurant Demeanor
During lunch at the taco stand you attempt to impress the white stoner serving second-rate burritos by commenting on how fresh the “awacados” are, with a sly smile. At the sushi rest...
Let’s Hear it for Grandpa!
Legendary cartoonist Bob Fingerman gives us a strip for the Wasted Issue. Click here to see the full comic....
Actress Melissa Leo
Between the red hair and heartbreaking stare, you know you've seen Melissa Leo before, but you're not quite sure where. Mabe her performance in 21 Grams? (Called "as good as it gets" by Manohla Dargis.) Was tha...
_Music: I-LXXXIV_
This winter, Pressed Wafer Press will publish the second, long-awaited prose collection by poet-delinquent August Kleinzhaler, a selection of music reviews written for the San Diego Reader. Known for maligning ...
Colby Bird
Colby Bird's photographs and sculptures (featuring crack pipes, airplane alcohol bottles, and cocaine-smooth surfaces) lay bare a fascination with drug overindulgence and a kind of middleclass ostentation that ...
Waste Management
Newspaper and cardboard can be recycled, but toilet paper cannot. In an average lifetime, a single human being will flush 4,249 rolls of paper down the toilet—and that doesn't take into account the four layers ...
