In light of recent events
Who’s preferencing whom?December 15, 2011
Monthly Wire
Best Satire of 2011
Ten of the most amusing reads of 2011 from the Shortlist Daily.
I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview "It was great to meet with you and learn more about the company. Please don’t hesitate to call or email if you have any more questions for me."
– McSweeney's
– Occupy Writers
The Murdochs hug it out – Succession problems, Murdoch-style.
– New York Times
How drunk can you get at your office Christmas party? A handy guide "You need a drink because it softens the awkwardness of mixing work relationships with holiday merriment, but drink too much and you'll end up in a situation that's far more awkward. Ideally you want to locate yourself right on the boundary of personal embarrassment."
– New York Magazine
The comments on God's Blog "UPDATE: Pretty pleased with what I've come up with in just six days. Going to take tomorrow off. Suggestions and criticism (constructive, please!) more than welcome..." (Scroll down for comments)
– New Yorker
Book reviews demystified "Many readers come from outside the literary community's gilded sanctum and struggle to understand its strange customs. To combat these difficulties, we have compiled and translated some of our favorite clichés..."
– Full Stop
You shut your goddamn carbon-taxin' mouth "The only apparent solution is a massive airdop of Xanax into our reservoirs, because really, everyone needs a few deep breaths and a spell in the quiet corner." OR: for a less potty-mouthed version, click here
– Heathen Scripture
Call and response: Michael Bay and an angry projectionist "How about throwing us a bone and making a movie with recognisably human characters, plotting that wasn't put together by a developmentally-challenged robot that once read a Robert McKee book, and that doesn't resemble a two-and-a-half-hour beer commercial?"
– Indiewire
Text slang for baby boomers "TXT L8R = Can't find reading glasses; WWIS = What was I saying?"
– New Yorker
Andrew Bolt Greeting Cards for Freedom!
– Crikey
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Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
The quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’
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Remembrance or forgetting?
The Australian War Memorial and the Great Australian Silence
Property damage
What will it take for Australia to fix the affordable housing crisis?
Present indicative: Daniel Johns’ ‘FutureNever’
The former Silverchair frontman’s second solo album lacks cohesion, but affords him space to excavate his past
