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The Onion, November 17, 2009
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stuff.co.nz, November 17, 2009
...will love their 2009 Annual (Text Publishing, $35). Taking a leaf out of the, er, spin-off books of The Onion and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, the satire boys scattershot can one verb-ise that? political and general targets everywhere in a monochrome...
Salt Lake Tribune, November 6, 2009
...argument to be made that no media outlet in the past two decades has wielded more influence than The Onion. Some of the satirical newspaper's writers have gone on to write and produce 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report,' two of the...
CJFW, November 4, 2009
...publication. It has echoes of classic U.S. humour magazines Mad and National Lampoon, with a dash of The Onion's news parodies. Like "South Park," it exploits the comic potential of potty-mouthed children, and like "The Simpsons" it skewers the mob...
MyNorthwest.com, November 4, 2009
...publication. It has echoes of classic U.S. humor magazines Mad and National Lampoon, with a dash of The Onion's news parodies. Like "South Park," it exploits the comic potential of potty-mouthed children, and like "The Simpsons" it skewers the mob...
Advocate.com, October 30, 2009
...In case you missed it, The Onion this week served up some satirical Halloween costume ideas for concerned parents hoping to make their 'girly son' look manly. “Be very careful not to choose one that’s been...
WalletPop, October 30, 2009
...Filed under: Extracurriculars Everyone's favorite satirical news source, The Onion, is coming out with a brand new book, Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, And Moral Rectitude From America's Finest News Source, just in time for...
Huffington Post, October 29, 2009
...Everyone's favorite satirical news source, The Onion, is coming out with a brand new book, , just in time for the holidays. The book shows you vintage Onion, going back to 1988, to the satirical paper's...
Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2009
...of A.V. Club, the collection of arts writing that comprises the more earnest, fact-based back half of The Onion. Rather than a wedding, a coming-out party might be the more appropriate social-function metaphor. Modell, 35, and his quorum of writers and...
Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2009
...of A.V. Club, the collection of arts writing that comprises the more earnest, fact-based back half of The Onion. Rather than a wedding, a coming-out party might be the more appropriate social-function metaphor. Modell, 35, and his quorum of writers and...
USA Today, October 21, 2009
...hard topics such as abortion, autism, violence and torture. They, well, fascinate with brisk writing. A trifle from The Onion, "Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Stain," wins my vote as tops in the collection, which is sure to hold something...
Wired News, October 19, 2009
...started by a group of comedy writers during the writer’s strike of 2008. They have writers from The Onion , The Daily Show , The Simpsons , and more. Two apps of particular interest include This Just In , which provides just-in-time jokes from the...
Asbury Park Press, October 19, 2009
...years since, Grass has gone on to publish more than a dozen works, including his 2006 biography "Peeling the Onion" that addressed for the first time his brief stint serving in the Nazi's Waffen SS a revelation that stirred intense debate in Germany and...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 18, 2009
...- and can lead to being reduced to a smoldering pile of dust. Joe Garden, features editor for The Onion, is a member of the writing collective behind the book. Collective members, including Garden, Janet Ginsberg, Chris Pauls and Anita Serwacki, will be...
Omaha World-Herald, October 17, 2009
...years since, Grass has gone on to publish more than a dozen works, including his 2006 biography “Peeling the Onion” that addressed for the first time his brief stint serving in the Nazi’s Waffen SS — a revelation that stirred intense debate in...
KTAR.com, October 16, 2009
...years since, Grass has gone on to publish more than a dozen works, including his 2006 biography "Peeling the Onion" that addressed for the first time his brief stint serving in the Nazi's Waffen SS- a revelation that stirred intense debate in Germany and...
Macleans Online, October 16, 2009
...years since, Grass has gone on to publish more than a dozen works, including his 2006 biography "Peeling the Onion" that addressed for the first time his brief stint serving in the Nazi's Waffen SS - a revelation that stirred intense debate in Germany...
Yahoo! News, October 16, 2009
...years since, Grass has gone on to publish more than a dozen works, including his 2006 biography "Peeling the Onion" that addressed for the first time his brief stint serving in the Nazi's Waffen SS a revelation that stirred intense debate in Germany and...
San Francisco Examiner, October 16, 2009
...years since, Grass has gone on to publish more than a dozen works, including his 2006 biography "Peeling the Onion" that addressed for the first time his brief stint serving in the Nazi's Waffen SS — a revelation that stirred intense debate in Germany...
Yahoo! News Australia, October 13, 2009
...a fan and used to read them in college,' McGinness said, comparing the satirical approach to that of the Onion. 'I saw it as a mini-Marvel. And I wanted to take the focus off the page and into film and TV entertainment, theater, comic books and...
Canyon News, October 9, 2009
...and spoofs, and Harry Potter’s immense success has been parodied in publications such as MAD Magazine and The Onion and in TV shows such as "The Simpsons," "Saturday Night Live," and "Robot Chicken." Merchandise: From Hagrid and Hermione action...
New York Times, October 9, 2009
...N.Y. Times?s website or the Wall Street Journal?s, but rather on Google News. I instantly assumed that the Onion had successfully landed a story on the home page of that fine aggregator. ?Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize,? the headline said. I...
North Adams Transcript, October 9, 2009
...1957. It’s Humbug that functions as the spiritual father for magazines such as National Lampoon, Spy and The Onion, among many others, but there’s something invigorating about it because of its vantage point in the supposedly stodgy and bland 1950s....
Boston Globe, September 20, 2009
...request his book be set in - what else? - Baskerville typeface. Rejoicing in words The State of the Onion Address, an evening of satire, is the hot ticket at the Burlington Book Festival next weekend. Another festival favorite is Harry Bliss, a...
Washington Post, September 19, 2009
...by Pop Culture By Nathan Rabin Scribner. 342 pp. $25 For more than 20 years, the faux-news syndicate the Onion has satirized geopolitical dilemmas ('Bush on North Korea: 'We Must Invade Iraq' '); civic debates ('New Hampshire Passes Law Forcing Old...
Guardian Unlimited, September 16, 2009
...Wouldn't that be marvellously ironic? Wouldn't that be what the US's finest purveyors of satire, The Onion - self-styled as 'America's finest news source' (well, Fox News had taken 'Fair and Balanced') - would do? Except hang on, that was . Of course,...
Paste Magazine, August 28, 2009
...weekends obsessing over the New York Giants and their star linebacker. And before that, Siegel edited satirical newspaper The Onion, which may explain why both of his dramatic screenplays are built on deep currents of absurdity?it?s in his blood. Now...
Poynter Institute, August 27, 2009
...gifts in 1980" and thus "qualified as the single-biggest purchaser of mass quantities." > Too soon for The Onion to publish Kennedy jabs?...
Times Colonist, August 20, 2009
...pot and set on the bacon as you go along. Add oil to the pot, if necessary. Add the onion and carrot to the pot and cook until lightly browned. Drain any cooking fat off the vegetables. Return the beef and bacon to the pot and toss and season...
The Onion AV Club, July 30, 2009
...O?Rourke Books A.V. Club afns_mediaURL afns_loginURL if 0.001) mobile edition The Onion A.V. Local Store Personals login Need an account? cache_login Film Music TV Books Games DVD Features TV Club Videocracy Savage Love The Hater A.V. Blog Newswire...
NPR, July 28, 2009
...Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture. Now 33, Rabin is head entertainment writer at The Onion's A.V Club. Rabin was abandoned by his mother, suffered severe depression and spent time in a mental hospital. Podcast and RSS Feeds PodcastRSS...
Time Out New York, July 23, 2009
...that past led to Rabin?s adulthood as an obsessive consumer of pop culture and a writer for The Onion?s A.V. Club. In this journey from troubled youth to successful critic, the author?s guides and life lessons come in the form of movies, books and...
Paste Magazine, July 22, 2009
...The first-ever headline in The Onion was ?Mendota Monster Mauls Madison,? published Aug. 29 1988 over a picture of a Loch Ness Monster-type creature that was apparently roaming the waterways of Wisconsin. The paper was...
LiveNews, July 21, 2009
...this news-paper, it is my duty and unrestrained pleasure to inform you spittle-soaked readers that I have sold The Onion and all of its various holdings to a syndicate of industrious China-men from the deepest heart of the Orient. The Onionâ??s...
Examiner.com, July 17, 2009
...Rattle Rattle Snake, and Joy Subtraction. ?The Yellow Rake is kind of like what I had always hoped The Onion would be: really smart but totally hilarious with witty articles that are insightful? This is a really good read, being smart and funny, and...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 12, 2009
...Boswell Book Co. describes author Nathan Rabin, the head writer of the entertainment section of the satirical newspaper The Onion. Rabin comes to town at 7 p.m. Friday to discuss and sign copies of his new book, 'The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You...
USA Today, July 6, 2009
...of pop culture and never looked back. Rabin, now 33 and living in Chicago, is head writer of The Onion's entertainment section, The A.V. Club. He is perhaps best known for his online column, My Year of Flops, which has attracted a cult following. Now...
Huffington Post, July 4, 2009
...Choices! Except If You're Pro-Choice The Sarah Palin Story Blaming Everyone But Myself The Sarah Palin Story The Onion Got Nothing On Me The Sarah Palin Story How To Use The Phrase 'Dead Fish' And Still Appear Pro-Life The Sarah Palin Speech Makin' Book...
NHPR, July 4, 2009
...summer reading assignment that includes Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, or Our Dumb World by the Onion. And get this: more lists are becoming optional. Proponents of more lenient and appealing summer assignments argue that their...
NetworkWorld, June 26, 2009
...ensnared to help with his iLarious applications. With three Emmys under his belt, and contributions from writers from The Onion, Comedy Central, The New Yorker, Collegehumor.com, and The Simpsons, Graver is hoping to redefine how we look at the mobile...
Honolulu Weekly, June 17, 2009
...surrounding family members seem all too happy for the chance to get out of his newest work, titled The Onion Dance, alive. It?s a brave opening, because as Max Solomon (Spencer Berger) contemplates the sheer awfulness of his work, he realizes he?s...
Toronto Star Online, June 14, 2009
... The Economist Making the news up is hard, so the weekly editorial meeting at The Onion, a spoof newspaper based in New York, is appropriately intense. One writer clutches a human skull. Another wields a threatening stick. Yet another, looking scruffy,...
Globe and Mail, June 5, 2009
...to creating works such as The Weight of Absence and 100 Words for Snow . I began to peel the onion to try and discover what is my way of moving away from all of the other codified movement that I had learned, she says. The National Ballet of Canada...
National Post, June 1, 2009
...minute and a half. A short that would be a minute, now it's 30 seconds. Look at The Onion -- the headline is the joke, the rest is bulls--t. It's not setup punch, it's punch set-up. They've shortened the formula. But, again, he don't...
North Bay Business Journal, May 26, 2009
...m. Real reporting is easy. Making the news up is much harder. So the weekly editorial meeting at The Onion, a spoof newspaper whose main writers are based in New York, is intense. One writer clutches a human skull. Another wields a threatening stick. Yet...
Capital Times, May 23, 2009
...Some might expect that a book about George W. Bush, written by a contributor and former staffer to the Onion, would be a barrel of dry laughs. But former Madison resident Mike Loew's 'Thanks For The Memories, George' much more resembles harsh punditry...
EdgeBoston.com, May 22, 2009
...travel and pop culture blog as seen in TIME Magazine. Her work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and The Onion A.V. Club, and she comments on books regularly for WEBR?s 'Talk of the Town with Parker Sunshine.' A Wisconsin native, she now lives in New...
The Economist, May 21, 2009
...REAL reporting is easy. Making the news up is much harder. So the weekly editorial meeting at the Onion, a spoof newspaper based in New York, is intense. One writer clutches a human skull. Another wields a threatening stick. Yet another walks in late,...
Examiner.com, May 19, 2009
...Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime] Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime] State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley] In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell] South of Hell by P.J. Parrish [Pocket Star] Best Short Story 'The Night Things...
Yahoo! India, May 13, 2009
...is a digital device that downplays its digitality, reassuring conservative booklovers that it's really on their side. The Onion even teased the first Kindle as 'just a hollow box with a clear plastic window that you insert books into'. But unassuming...
Northern Echo, May 12, 2009
...intended. Ian Danton, himself Scottish, confirmed it. Both were mistaken; they?d been working from the evening menu. The onion rings, finally full circle, were piping fresh and terrific. Onion rings, in truth, may be the next great danger to the...
Globe and Mail, May 7, 2009
...show. The conventional wisdom is that the franchise has been saved from the sweaty clutches of the pocket-protected. (The Onion, the nominally fake newspaper, issued a report headlined ) But pay close attention to the movie, and you might see a face that...
Globe and Mail, May 7, 2009
...into being a writer. Who, besides you, is the world's most underrated writer? The entire staff of The Onion, or Curtis Sittenfeld. What's the most embarrassing writerly moment you've ever had? Its really hard to say. There are number of stories where...
Seeking Alpha, May 7, 2009
...in the money!? DENIAL I highly recommend reading Nation Ready To Be Lied To About Economy Again by The Onion: America?s Finest News Source. Among the notable quotes are, ?According to a CBS News/New York Times poll, 98 percent of Americans no...
Glasgow Herald, May 1, 2009
...spite of the starling open image, with its potential for emotional bathos, the poem's layers - like the onion - peel away in ever intensifying passion, commitment, and potential danger. An engagingly original love poem. Shooting Stars (from Standing...
Glasgow Herald, May 1, 2009
...spite of the starling open image, with its potential for emotional bathos, the poem's layers - like the onion - peel away in ever intensifying passion, commitment, and potential danger. An engagingly original love poem. Shooting Stars (from Standing...
24-7PressRelease.com, April 26, 2009
...rapidly as well; users range from organizations such as recovery.gov, consumersearch.com, NYU Langone Medical Center and The Onion, to sites representing Beyonce, Bob Dylan and Hillary Clinton. Thanks to MEI and DPCI, customers of both systems now have...
Media Bistro, April 25, 2009
...22, 2009: Sean Mills has been named chief executive officer at Nerve.com. He had been president at The Onion. (release) April 22, 2009: Laurent Chardin-Rischmann has been named head of sales and marketing at Moving Pictures. He had been sales manager for...
Seybold Reports.com, April 24, 2009
...rapidly as well; users range from organizations such as recovery.gov, consumersearch.com, NYU Langone Medical Center and The Onion, to sites representing Beyonce, Bob Dylan and Hillary Clinton. Thanks to MEI and DPCI, customers of both systems now have...
MountainXpress, April 16, 2009
...there is no returning to those days.') and gives readers an overview of local characters (Police Chief McNutt, the ?onion man,? Bob Smith, DDS). There?s a conversational tone, rather like a slide show presentation. Chapters have names like, ?Come...
Ann Arbor News, April 13, 2009
...underwater action, new weapons ? Nintendo published 9 of 10 top selling games so far this decade ? The Onion takes aim at video games with Close Range COMMENTS What News readers are talking about ? skyhawkpilot -- I just saw the show last night......
North Texas Daily, March 27, 2009
...a full band behind them. Oh, and 'Kryptonite' absolutely killed. FRIDAY Friday I raced to Radio Room for the Onion A.V. Club day show, only to catch the last few minutes of the Welsh angular-rock giants Future of the Left playing inside. Outside,...
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2009
...followers on Twitter, setting him ; he's behind Al Gore, Britney Spears and Barack Obama, but ahead of the Onion, 10 Downing Street, Ryan Seacrest and almost everyone else). And this sounds good: the is all Latin American. Co-editor Daniel Alarcon tells...
Fayette Citizen, March 22, 2009
...viewing options Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes. The Onion started as a satirical newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (my alma mater). I guess it has really caught on. It's...
Huffington Post, March 20, 2009
...of snark, but the definition can be stated even more simply. Film and music critic Nathan Rabin of The Onion AV Club calls it 'Everything sucksism': [It's] a cheap adolescent nihilism that delights in taking down celebrities and pop-culture entities that...
Mature Times, March 12, 2009
...to the bean family, and to brassicas, as they are beneficial for potatoes, tomatoes and roses. Alliums - the onion family - are extremely valuable as companion plants. And no doubt anyone that grows carrots knows to interplant with a member of the onion...
University Business, March 10, 2009
...most subversive book on the college bestseller list was â??Our Dumb World,â?? a collection of gags from the Onion. The top title that month was â??The Tales of Beedle the Bardâ?? by J.K. Rowling.â? The presence of Malcolm...
China Post, March 7, 2009
...3:39 am TWN, Special to the China Post The Chinese translation of ?Peeling the Onion,? the autobiographical book by German novelist and artist Guenter Grass (82), was released by the German Culture Center in Taipei yesterday. ?I think it is one of...
EdgeBoston.com, March 7, 2009
...relatively spare style of 'A Boy?s Own Story' to the more rococo 'A Farewell Symphony.' Peeling away the onion layers of Proust?s life and how they are reflected in his supremely autobiographical novel, White reveals delicious detail after detail....
Washington Post, March 7, 2009
...the most subversive book on the college bestseller list was 'Our Dumb World,' a collection of gags from the Onion. The top title that month was 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' by J.K. Rowling. College kids' favorite nonfiction book was Malcolm Gladwell's...
Washington Post, March 6, 2009
...the most subversive book on the college bestseller list was 'Our Dumb World,' a collection of gags from the Onion. The top title in January was 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' by J.K. Rowling. Their favorite nonfiction book was Malcolm Gladwell's...
USA Today, March 5, 2009
...at Rhodes. Joel Kilpatrick, founder of LarkNews.com, a Christian satire site that reads like a cross between The Onion and an evangelical church bulletin, took their manuscript and did a humorous write-through. His earlier book for Uncensored's...
Conde Nast Portfolio, February 28, 2009
...Sony shakeup: CEO takes over as president, while electronics and games division are streamlined. [Bloomberg]. Meanwhile, the Onion's Youtube lampoons of Sony products gets attention at Slate's Big Money. [] Unburden your dark soul with anonymous...
Benton Evening News, February 21, 2009
...Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 1. Heat olive oil in a heavy (11-1/2 x 2-inch) casserole over medium heat. Stir in the onion and broccoli. Partially cover the pan and cook, removing cover occasionally to stir, until broccoli stems begin to soften. Transfer...
Hindu Business Line, February 18, 2009
...get to profitability first and then build on it for growth. However, further thought peels another layer off the onion and muddies matters. Without growth first, could a mySpace or even a business newspaper survive long enough to be profitable? So maybe...
Media Bistro, February 16, 2009
...Jaconi signs up as executive producer of State of the Union on CNN... Former CNN-er Bobbie Batista joins the Onion News Network... Remember those layoffs at Bloomberg? Well, here's the complete list... Google killed its radio division and could lay off...
NPR Blogs: Monkey See, November 3, 2009
...like there have been thousands of articles just like this one about the process of writing headlines at The Onion , in which journalists convey the apparently surprising facts that (1) there is a process to comedy; (2) comedy is work; (3) people who have...
WalletPop Blog, October 29, 2009
...The Onion: just as divisive as regular news, now with new book Andrea Chalupa Oct 29th 2009 at 7:00PM More Text Size A A A Filed under: Extracurriculars Everyone's...
Media on HuffingtonPost.com, October 29, 2009
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Mirror On America, October 21, 2009
...LOL This is too funny. I thought it was something from the Onion at first... then I realized it was from the NY Daily News. Progressives are finally learning how to play the game, and how to play on their terms. Since...
Full of Sports, October 20, 2009
...October 20, 2009 | The Onion | Comments 0 Print This Post Book About Michael Jackson Available For Purchase News In Photos VN:F [1.6.3_896] please wait... Rating: 0.0/ 10 (0...
From the editors @ Universal Press Syndicate, October 13, 2009
...OMG! OMG! Amazon Special! $5.20 for the 1st Cul De Sac book http://tinyurl.com/yhojsb4 The Onion says "every panel is a standalone delight" -JG...
DefinitiveInk, October 10, 2009
...Which of the following appeared in The Onion and which appeared in The New York Times? 1. "You can't grasp the brilliance of a great painting just by looking at it," said Phil Brehm, 32...
The New Republic - The Plank Feed, October 9, 2009
...this brilliant Orwell essay)--Joshua Hammer on the latest from Zimbabwe--Stefan Collini on the history of literary journals--And, The Onion asks people on the street about the swine flu vaccine...
Fiction Writers Review, October 5, 2009
...go? Now, even your Facebook status can land you a book deal –at least in the world of The Onion . Via...
See Tim Blog, October 2, 2009
...And boy is it douchey. Now all I need to do is access this guy's friends list, and maybe I can convince HarperCollins to publish this blog in a book!...
Coudal Partners Blended Feed, September 30, 2009
...A trailer for The Onion A.V. Club's new Inventory book, which features lots of great writing by friends of the agency and one wife of the agency...
First Order Historians, September 30, 2009
...they turned 70 + 35 things we’ll forever associate with The Simpsons …and much more! Pre-order through “The Onion” website, release date October 13. Click here for more info. Posted in Books Tagged: A.V. Club, Lists, Pop Culture, The Onion...
So many books, so little time, September 26, 2009
...I saw someone's horrified post about this article about Reading Rainbow in The Onion. How could they not get that it was a satire? How could they not have heard of The Onion? For one thing, if you work in an office, going...
MY BIG FAT OBNOXIOUS BOYFRIEND, September 26, 2009
...think we're so smart, but we're not much smarter than our forebears...just another layer of the onion of knowledge to peel :) The Bible had astrologers so that's good enough for me. Do I follow newspaper horoscopes? No. According to the DMV data base,...
TampaBLAB, September 16, 2009
...A with the guys—and one woman—behind everything from “The Office,” Borat and “Saturday Night Live” to MAD magazine, The Onion and M*A*S*H . Even if you’re not a writer, this is a rich vein to mine for laughs and insight into your favorite...
Mr. Media Radio Interviews by Bob Andelman, September 16, 2009
...A with the guys—and one woman—behind everything from “The Office,” Borat and “Saturday Night Live” to MAD magazine, The Onion and M*A*S*H . Even if you’re not a writer, this is a rich vein to mine for laughs and insight into your favorite...
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk, September 16, 2009
...Wouldn't that be marvellously ironic? Wouldn't that be what the US's finest purveyors of satire, The Onion - self-styled as "America's finest news source" (well, Fox News had taken "Fair and Balanced") - would do? Except hang on, that was Google, with...
TheScore.com Blog, August 31, 2009
...and writer/director of the upcoming, awesome-looking, Patton Oswald-starring, Big Fan. He also used to be the editor of The Onion. In other words, it turns he’s about fifteen different kinds of awesome. “When I was a teenager, I used to go to a lot...
The Late Adopter, August 29, 2009
...I didn't want to lose any of that when I made the movie,' he added." From The Onion...
Romenesko, August 27, 2009
...pays off in covering Kennedy's death Boston TV goes wall-to-wall for Kennedy's funeral Too soon for The Onion to publish Kennedy jokes?...
The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: Slog, August 25, 2009
...the Memories, George: What Eight Years of Bush Will Do to a Country by Mike Loew (contributor to The Onion ). Why is it useless? After eight years of useless books that capitalized on liberal loathing of George W. Bush, do we really need one last...
The Late Adopter, August 23, 2009
...I didn't want to lose any of that when I made the movie,' he added." From The Onion...
Vinyl Collective, August 21, 2009
...The Best of the Yellow Rake. “The Yellow Rake is kind of like what I had always hoped The Onion would be: really smart but totally hilarious with witty articles that are insightful… This is a really good read, being smart and funny, and managing not...
Bark Bark Woof Woof, August 21, 2009
...The Invisible Library: judge a book cover. - WTF Is It Now?? Hard to believe it's from The Onion . Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?...
io9, August 13, 2009
...gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop sploid Interested in diving into alternate history fiction? The Onion AV Club has an unusual...
Daemon's TV, August 13, 2009
...birds; and he's moving in with his daughter in Oxnard… not Oxnard on the beach, Oxnard by the onion fields. But, none of that is as aggravating as Sheldon (Jim Parsons), who keeps pestering him to settle a bet with Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) about a...
Earth and other unlikely worlds, August 11, 2009
...The Onion lets us in on the secret of writing best-selling science fiction . At last I know what I've been doing wrong, all these years. (via Kim Newman) Currently watching...
SF Signal, August 11, 2009
...of reading . Book View Cafe's 4th Twitter Fic contest is being held from August 11 through 13. The Onion says Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious To 'Quantum Flux', so it must be true. [via Bookninja ] Now this is an idea I can get behind:...
io9, August 10, 2009
...fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop sploid Today's mock dispatch from The Onion explains how Gabriel Fournier...
A Hamburger Today, August 7, 2009
...ball. In a nonreactive saucepan over medium-high heat, bring the vinegar, grenadine, and spices to a boil. Add the onion and simmer, uncovered, for 10 to 15 minutes. Let cool, transfer to a nonreactive container, cover, and let sit for 2 hours before...
ParentDish, August 3, 2009
...a Three-Way Homework: The Alien Conspiracy Hopped Up On Pop's Meth Immanuel Kant: On Recess Lord of the Onion Rings Madeline's Last Tango in Paris Make Way For Drunkards Mary Poppins In Rehab Mommy's Little Tax Deduction My Daddy Takes His Hair Off At...
ParentDish, August 3, 2009
...a Three-Way Homework: The Alien Conspiracy Hopped Up On Pop's Meth Immanuel Kant: On Recess Lord of the Onion Rings Madeline's Last Tango in Paris Make Way For Drunkards Mary Poppins In Rehab Mommy's Little Tax Deduction My Daddy Takes His Hair Off At...
Simply Cooking, June 16, 2009
...garlic and ginger that come in jars? (Everyday Good Eating) What are we buying at the farmers market? (The Onion) Posted in Blogs, Cookbooks, Cooking, Gardening, Resources...
Quit Drinking And Overcome Alcoholism, June 14, 2009
...The Onion AV Club - Found 3 hours ago … probably be an exaggeration to say that Wisconsin has a culture of alcoholism and excess. But Wisconsin has a culture of...
Variety.com, June 11, 2009
...More Articles: Twitter, Fallon win Webby Awards IsHak, Sheresky book it with UTA AFTRA approves two new pacts The Onion wins Peabody Award Rolling Stone takes stab at gaming ...
This Week In Education, June 8, 2009
...Smithsonian.org, and NPR.org. (Ironically, my district blocks access to video on PBS and NPR, but allows The Onion . [How about their " Report: Increasing Numbers Of Educators Found To Be Suffering From Teaching Disabilities? "]) What is the first...
The Millions, June 7, 2009
...Vice . The seven types of bookstore customers . ( via ) An incredible collection of pocket paperback colophons. Coming soon from The Onion , Inventory , a collection of "obsessively specific pop-culture lists." The Ask Metafilter crowd suggests what to...
Scribd Feed, June 6, 2009
...Follies – Paul Auster 10. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan 11. After Dark – Haruki Murakami 12. The Onion Girl – Charles de Lint 13. The Road – Cormac McCarthy 14. Pattern Recognition - William Gibson 15. Dingo - Charles de Lint 16. The Helmet of...
onegoodmove, June 1, 2009
...Alarm: Update on the Economic Downturn Oh, No! It's Making Well-Reasoned Arguments Backed With Facts! Run! | The Onion - America's Finest News Source I…I think it's finally over. Our reactionary emotional response seems to have stopped it dead in...
TexasBestGrok, May 25, 2009
...Beach Reading The A.V. Club at The Onion has put together a list of books for the summer . Titles include M. John Harrison's Nova Swing (on Mount Toberead), Gene Wolfe's WizardKnight duo (also on Mount...
Cognitive Dissonance, May 22, 2009
...writers and the top brass from various national security agencies you’d probably think I read it in The Onion. And you’d be correct. If by “The Onion” you meant the Washington Post : The line between what’s real and what’s not is thin and...
jo boo!!!'s MySpace Blog, May 22, 2009
...I used to think the Onion's "Our Dumb Century" was the funniest book ever published. I now think it is the Onion's World Atlas: "Our Dumb Planet." seriously. Two excepts from two...
Stay Free! Daily, May 13, 2009
...7:30 Photo by Boston Bill CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has written for the Onion News Network and Stay Free! magazine. BENJAMIN MILLER is author of Fat of the Land: The Garbage of New York, the Past Two Hundred Years . As a...
Serious Eats, May 12, 2009
...medium heat. Toss in 1 garlic clove, the dried chile, 1 thyme sprig, and a basil stem. Add the onion, and cook for 5 minutes. Season with a pinch of salt and a few grinds of pepper, and add 1 tablespoon of the vinegar. Cook for another 5 minutes...
Music Vixen Blog, May 11, 2009
...from the radio, Bono is hitting the airwaves with something even more frightening … Once again, reality and the Onion have come too close for comfort. Last week it was reported that U2 leader Bono will be the subject of a CNN program dubbed...
Thinking on the Margin, May 11, 2009
...with all they have to say. I would also add that it was fun and watchable, just like The Onion says. Put things off and stop caring to realize your dreams. Elsewhere, setting goals can sometimes impede performance rather than make it better. Pystar to...
Band of Thebes, May 5, 2009
...in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle , in which he discusses his books, his twin brother who works for The Onion , his husband, and his next novel. The complete list of O. Henry prize winning stories is here . This year's judges were A.S. Byatt, Tim...
Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, May 4, 2009
... The Spirit Movie (The Onion, A.V. Club) by Tasha Robinson April 28, 2009 Crimes: • Turning Will Eisner’s iconic series about a heroic Boy Scout type into an overwrought, sexed-up noir version...
Lean Blog, May 3, 2009
...continued plant closure announcements in the auto industry and Chrysler's bankruptcy , but don't blame me, blame " The Onion " (the web's funniest fake news)... But, keep in mind this video makes fun of the media and Ford executives... not the auto...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands, April 26, 2009
...From the Onion: Pushpin Industry Thriving In Recession | The Onion - America's Finest News Source : Since Edwin Moore's invention of the pushpin in 1900, people have turned to these...
Dvorak Uncensored, April 23, 2009
...that they wont respond to the threats, but instead will keep the service running. This is worthy of the Onion , but unfortunately it’s true. .color_viewer }...
Dvorak Uncensored, April 23, 2009
...that they wont respond to the threats, but instead will keep the service running. This is worthy of the Onion , but unfortunately it’s true...
The Stranger: Slog, April 15, 2009
...The Onion 's A.V. Club is starting a book club. Their first book is going to be Katherine Dunn's great novel Geek Love , which is a fine choice to...
[Technorati] Tag results for short, April 15, 2009
...Modern Day Scribe Home About Favorite Things CONGRATULATIONS LINDA SANDS! April 15, 2009...9:38 The Onion: Indiana Man Reads Entire Book ...
The Sly Oyster | culture & entertainment on the sl, April 15, 2009
...passages. Also? This is what counts for journalism these days, and no this is not a piece from The Onion. Seth Rogan reads at 3:30 and Paul Rudd shortly follows. [via Buzzfeed ]...
EdCone.com, April 9, 2009
...Dogs who keep kosher . Dogs who do yoga . The Onion? No, the NYT. People in Greensboro have habits in common with people in bigger cities, but I'm not sure every trend travels well....
West of Mars -- Win a Book!, April 3, 2009
...away signed copies of both of her White House Chef mysteries ( Hail to the Chef and State of the Onion ) and Susan Wittig Albert is giving away a signed copy of her brand new China Bales mystery, Wormwood . To enter: Send an E-MAIL to...
Julie Hyzy and her Blog, April 2, 2009
...win a signed copy of Susan's newest China Bayles' mystery, Wormwood , or signed copies of State of the Onion and Hail to the Chef. I signed up for this newsletter, too. Great recipes and lots of fun. I hope you check it out!...
CyberJournalist.net, March 27, 2009
...Makes You A Better Writer USA Today to stream live show using Mogulus Former CNN Anchor Moves to The Onion Comments Got something to say? Name (required) Email Address (required) Website Speak your mind Featured Video I collect with Vodpod . Watch more...
moderncat, March 24, 2009
...Fluffy & Bonkers,” are at best fictional) are all past or present writers for the “fake news” newspaper The Onion . If you’re a fan, then The Devious Book for Cats is right up your alley. And even if you don’t care much for The Onion, there’s...
Bride of the Book God, March 21, 2009
...Sword by Poul Anderson Hrolf Kraki’s Saga by Poul Anderson The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint Here There Be Dragons by James Owen White Apples by Jonathan Carroll Aegypt by John Crowley The Book of the New Sun by Gene...
The Onion Radio News, March 15, 2009
...com/podcast_redirect.mp3?file=files/radionews/07-023-Sleazy-Website.mp3&title=Sleazy Website Will Link To Anything&issue=4508&prefix=ORN Sat, Feb 17 2007 sleazy_website_will_link_to_0 About ORN Anchor Bios Affiliates The Onion Radio News has been the...
The Onion, March 15, 2009
...com/podcast_redirect.mp3?file=files/radionews/07-023-Sleazy-Website.mp3&title=Sleazy Website Will Link To Anything&issue=4508&prefix=ORN Sat, Feb 17 2007 sleazy_website_will_link_to_0 About ORN Anchor Bios Affiliates The Onion Radio News has been the...
Dirty Laundry, March 13, 2009
...it. So far nobody is “following” me, and I’m not sure why they would. I’m following The Onion for their hilarious headlines, and ex-Oakland Athletic / new Yankee Nick Swisher just for the thrill of access, and Barack Obama —yes, the President...
Skinny Chef, March 7, 2009
...your condensed soup What’s-his-name. By Todd Christopher Cincala, my highschool classmate, at mophunquis.com . Ode To The Onion Onion, luminous flask, your beauty formed petal by petal, crystal scales expanded you and in the secrecy of the dark...
Gawker, March 6, 2009
...most subversive book on the college bestseller list was "Our Dumb World," a collection of gags from the Onion. The top title in January was "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" by J.K. Rowling. This whiny Sixties guy happens to be right! Even the cool kids...
Bookspotcentral, March 4, 2009
...ravenous expanses of negative space, swirls the reader’s perspective through his characters’ perceptions and back out again.” The Onion’s AV Club agreed that the book “achieves some stunning effects with the art and the lettering” and admired...
Chocolate & Croissants, March 3, 2009
...when cooled off. Pour out the excess fat from the skillet and lower the heat to medium. Add the onion and cook for 8 minutes, until softened, stirring regularly. Add the sliced mushroom, cover and cook for 5 minutes until browned. Remove the lid and cook...
HELLNOTES, March 3, 2009
...ravenous expanses of negative space, swirls the reader’s perspective through his characters’ perceptions and back out again.” The Onion’s AV Club agreed that the book “achieves some stunning effects with the art and the lettering” and admired...
Feral Geographer, March 3, 2009
...it reads like a headline from the onion, doesn’t it? every monday after work, i hang out with my friend c, who is about 16 months old. we make towers out of wooden blocks then knock...
Biting Edge, March 1, 2009
...Onion will run an interview of me by the fabulous (and dangerous) Cat Rambo. Besides her work on the Onion , she's a co-editor of the acclaimed Fantasy Magazine: http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy Over at The Big Thrill , newsletter of the International...
