DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
So you may or may not remember Sarah Palin’s extolling of the “real America”–you know, where “folk” are “hardworking,” “very patriotic,” and “pro-America.” Don’t remember? John Stewart breaks it down:
Well, we here at Break Out The Oreos feel bad about this whole thing; after all, we love baseball and apple pie and our mothers just like those “everyday Americans” in small towns, but on the other hand, we’re pro-choice, Ivy League intellectual, New York elitist pinkos. So what do we do? Are we real Americans? Are we real Americans every day of the week?
Answers to these questions and more in video form, after the jump: Read More
NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
… especially Mondays on which Shea Stadium is renamed “Tadium.” Behold (courtesy of MetsBlog):
This unfortunate moniker has been adopted due to the demolition of Shea, as pictured below:
Oh, well. At least such a Monday will only come to pass once.
More substantial writing to come from this half of the BOTO writing staff after October 30th.
Yours in melodrama,
Nicole
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
So we haven’t been writing, but we’ve sure had a lot on our minds!
Visions of an America under Sarah Palin.- Sarah Palin headbobbing on SNL.
- SNL somehow creating something hilarious from something stupid.
- Mark Wahlberg playing Mark Wahlberg in yet another ridiculously badass movie.
- The new place replaces the old place.
- The Yankees blew it, the Mets blew it, the Cubs blew it, the Dodgers blew it, but the Rays are going to the World Series! Beat the Phillies (says Nicole)!
- Tina Fey is the BOTO Pick for Break Out The Oreos‘ favorite FTWILF (the FTW stands for, among other things, “fabulously talented writer”). For the win!
- The Cowboys suck, and B.J. Upton is living the dream.
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
We here at Break Out The Oreos are good New Yorkers–we boo our Republican mayors, salivate over sexy corruption scandals, and remain moderately aware of our hockey team (go fuck yourselves, Islanders). So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody that we quickly caught this lovely culmination of the aforementioned trifecta: GOP Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin being booed during the ceremonial puck drop at last night’s Rangers-Flyers game in Philadelphia. The unbeaten Rangers spoiled Philly’s home opener by going up 4-0 by the end of the first period, but what was really most interesting was the response to the Alaskan governor’s first public appearance since the news of her “abuses of power” broke. Take a look for yourself:
Yowza! America’s favorite hockey mom being booed by an arena full of “Joe Six-Pack” hockey fans? Could it get any worse? Only if Alaskan First Daughter and soon-to-be-mother Bristol Palin is confirmed to be the singer in the following video:
Big tip to The Centrist Voice for alerting us to the Palin brouhaha. In other sports news, is there any doubt that a Phillies-Red Sox World Series would be the worst possible thing for a post-9/11 America?
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
Run away and panic! A mysterious disease is spreading across our nation’s college campuses and shall soon be consuming us all! And no, this isn’t an episode of Fringe, though we here at Break Out The Oreos must admit to being partial to any and all television shows detailing the supernatural terrorism of the city and inhabitants of Boston.
No, this little shindig is going down on the other side of the country at the sunny University of Southern California, the student body of which is rapidly discovering the concept of “Facebook activism” that we here in the Ivy League know and love (to be fair, they did have a perhaps more specific type of armchair advocacy last year). Break Out The Oreos had a recent conversation about the soon-to-be pandemic with Elise Nakamura, one of Devon’s high school classmates (and soon-to-be gastrointestinal zombie?) currently on the ground at USC.
After the jump, that is. Read More
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