Well, now that 2019 is finally and definitively gone, we can remember it. Ben and Nigel, friends and the grumpiest music critics are back with a 2019 Best-of AND flailing attempt to remember a whole decade! Continue reading
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Overheard and Overheated
One less charming quirk of New York is that, but for the newest, most garish and expensive buildings, our apartment thermostats seem to be set by clocks and calendars, with little regard to the actual temperature. At a certain point in, let’s say October if you’re lucky, our radiators hiss and pound to life and … Continue reading
Workable Solutions
People don’t like gun control because they don’t like the idea of feeling helpless in the face of someone with a gun (guns seem to introduce problems that only guns can solve), and also because they think they might need to rise up against the government. These two problems are why (we’re told) people need … Continue reading
Ben and Nigel Listen to 2018
One year older and a lifetime crankier. Continue reading
Let Us Not Praise Famous Men
After an article by Woody Allen’s son made it impossible to ignore that they’re a community of harassers, rapists and enablers, Hollywood gathered to congratulate themselves for being so progressive. Frances McDormand won the Best Actress Award for a movie about how craven poor Midwesterners are. She is celebrated for solemnly intoning the words … Continue reading