Hilarious site: James Lileks scores again!

[Miss_Creant]

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?

[Miss_Creant]

sure, as soon as I posted the previous message I tried one more time on got to it. go figure

[MsRobyn]

*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

[Dr.Pinky]

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:

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But life is not all brew and floozies - james r lileks

[chique]

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

[Badtz_Maru]

*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 site if you haven’t yet - it’s hilarious.

[Dijon_Warlock]

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

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!!!

[spathiphyllum]

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)

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.