Word: sketches
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...figure that will rise by an average annual rate of 68 percent until there are one billion users by 2013. True, these data have nothing to say about the number of books these users read in a year or about the way in which they read. Yet they nevertheless sketch an outline of a burgeoning group for which even a DSL connection on a regular computer is a much too slow and inconvenient means of accessing e-mail. And while there has been no such survey, it’s fair to say that this rising demographic also illustrates...
...more Californian than the conservative megapastor Rick Warren urging his multimedia flock to make a fresh start with a forgiving God? "A clean slate is possible!" he wrote in his best seller God's Power to Change Your Life. "It's a lot like my son's Etch A Sketch...
...case, California is not imploding, which ought to be heartening to Americans regardless of ideology or geography. Because America is essentially the land of the Etch A Sketch, and California is America but more so, beckoning dreamers who want to cook Korean tacos or convert fuel tanks into hot tubs. It's progressive more in the literal than in the political sense of the word. And it's where America is going: a greener, more advanced and more global economy; a browner and more metropolitan population; and, yes, some staggering debts and other governance problems that need to be resolved...
...last season’s cast: the brilliant Kristen Wiig and featured player Abby Elliott, known for her character, That Girl Who Isn’t Kristen Wiig. But more importantly, in addition to being female, she’s funny. Jenny Slate is half of Gabe & Jenny, the sketch comedy duo whose videos are some of the most bizarre and hilarious on the Internet. “SNL” can’t let her go over something this trivial...
Even for the United States, NBC’s standards of decency are anomalously high. The Jenny Slate sketch aired almost concurrently with Comedy Central’s weekly “Secret Stash.” This block of R-rated films and stand-up comedy begins at 1 a.m. Sunday and offers all the letter-bombs you can imagine—and even, at times, partial nudity. Comedy Central has the decency to withhold their indecency until several hours into the safe harbor, but couldn’t any “SNL”-watching kid with...