Category Archives: ESL Links

A London gym has developed a new fitness regime that it guarantees will increase the frequency, intensity and quality of customer’s orgasms. The Shag Workout is being launched at Gymbox in Holborn – and some participants claim to have reached … Continue reading →

James Joyce absolutely excoriates Movable Type Bloggers, apparently from beyond the grave. He makes the Dowbrigade feel like a worthless piece of shit even though we have never even seen Movable Type…. You are all pretentious twats Every last one … Continue reading →

Adam Curry, who the Dowbrigade likes to think of as a sort of Daniel Boone of the Cyber-frontier, having exotic episodic adventures the stuff of which dreams are made, is at it again…. Wow, I just got word that we … Continue reading →

from worth1000.com

Today the Dowbrigade celebrates 6 weeks without a cigarette. Thanks for the nudge, Dave….

Why is it that some presidents become known for posterity by their initials, and for some it never quite seems to catch on? John F. Kennedy is the prime example of an overwhelmingly initialized politician; anyone hearing the initials JFK … Continue reading →

  And so we bid a fond adieu to the 2003-04 football season in America. As attention turns to our OTHER full-contact sport, Presidential Politics, let us put the pigskins back in the closet and try to concentrate on weightier … Continue reading →

In an earlier posting entitled "Who are the Deaniacs?" we reported and expanded on a discussion begun at the Thursday Berkman Blogger’s Meetings on just how to refer to the wellspring of enthusiastic support discovered early in the Dean campaign. … Continue reading →

At a Bloggers Vegan pig-out at Grasshopper’s, the topic arose of why people who would never wear fur have no problem with leather shoes, belts or interiors for their beamers. Jessica remarked that it’s hard to cuddle up to a … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade salutes college hockey as one of the last bastions of all that was once good about American collegiate sports, an endangered balance of raw athletic talent, pure athletic competition, authentic academic endeavor, and the wild card possibility of … Continue reading →

Nineteen teaching days until the start of the Great Experiment.

Regular readers familiar with the Dowbrigade’s predilection for well-formed female breasts will no doubt be unsurprised to learn that we have been unable to resist posting on the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident. Was it a prearranged stunt? An honest accident? … Continue reading →