# Hilarious site: James Lileks scores again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314 "2001-02-13T16:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/21 "2001-02-16T05:07:29Z")
DAMN DAMN DAMN! I spent way too much time going through the old advertisting last night. It’s SO FUNNY! But now can’t get to the Lileks site…I get ‘connection canceled’ or some such nonsense. I wanted to check out the regrettable food gallery tonight. Anyone else have any problems? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/22 "2001-02-16T05:08:45Z")
sure, as soon as I posted the previous message I tried one more time on got to it. go figure ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/23 "2001-02-16T05:12:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\*I think James Lileks lurks here; if he doesn’t, one of his close colleagues at the Strib does. > > Straight Dope/Cecil Adams references appear quite often in the Variety and Metro sections, and occasionally in Lileks’ own columns. > > Any Strib employees wanna fess up? 😉 \*\* Since when??? I read the Strib on a near-daily basis, and I’ve never seen a SD/CA reference. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Pinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dr.Pinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Pinky)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/24 "2001-03-02T07:38:56Z")
My brush with fame - I went to the U with james back before he located the shift key on the keyboard. He used to hang at the Valli occasionally, guzzling coffee & scribbling furiously. For years I had a quote of his tacked on the wall: * * * But life is not all brew and floozies - james r lileks ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/25 "2001-03-02T08:29:15Z")
**MsRobyn** - you need to read those columns on the right-hand side of the front page of the Variety section. And while Lileks never mentions this place, every now and again I’ll notice a column that seems to have been inspired by a thread here, although I’ll be damned if I can think of an example this late at night 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/26 "2001-03-02T08:55:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*GOD BLESS Lileks > > I was first introduced to him when he did the piece on the Art of Art Frahm since I love pulp cover art so much. > > I was, well, I’ll admit it…I wet my pants, but continued to sit and read with my damp panties…howling with laughter. > > The regretable food is also a gem. I can’t wait to go back and check on him. > > jarbaby \*\* If you like pulp cover art, you might want to check out [this](http://www.pulpcards.com/index.html) site if you haven’t yet - it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/27 "2001-03-02T11:02:35Z")
While we’re on the subject of the Good Mr. Lileks, I thought I’d mention that his new project in on-line and in progress: [Interior Desecrators: Horrors from the Land of Shag](http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/intro/) More beverage snorting from a deeelightful tour of '70’s Interior Fashions. “Let your palette singe and smolder like a fire in a pig barn! Let your colors burn like an inflamed urethra! Turn up the colors, we say: turn them up! Make the neighbors pound on the wall and shout ‘turn down that painting!’” Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! ---
**Author:** ![spathiphyllum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@spathiphyllum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spathiphyllum)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314/28 "2001-03-03T06:46:48Z")
Glad to see so many others enjoy his site. I first ran across it a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but I eventually forgot to keep visiting it…thanks for reminding me to go back. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shiva \* > \*\*Lileks is always good for a laugh, but did you know he’s a pretty darn good serious writer too? > > His very personal piece on the death of his Mom brought me to tears, and that’s not easy to do. > > [LILEKS (James)](http://www.lileks.com/about/mom/index.html) > > Read only if you’ve got a tissue handy. \*\* Wow. I hadn’t known about the serious side of his site before. You’re right, it was incredibly moving and painful to read that. ☹ That guy really knows how to reach people with his writing, whether he’s trying to make you laugh or cry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-site-james-lileks-scores-again/54314.md?page=1)