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The Cult

Born into This | Roadrunner
Let’s be viral.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  October 01, 2007

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I now pronounce you man and wi-fi

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading about the Bosnian man who began an adulterous affair in an Internet chat room, only to discover that the woman to whom he was chatting was his own wife.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 26, 2007

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''Great Journeys''

From Marco Polo to Twain and Shackleton, with a bit of Pico Iyer
Now that the jungle is withdrawing, and the wilderness is tenanted, the brief of the travel writer has altered somewhat.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 24, 2007

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Smells like mean spirit

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that the Minneapolis airport bathroom in which GOP senator Larry Craig was arrested on June 11 has become a tourist attraction
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 19, 2007

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Angels in America

If the world’s saintliest woman can have doubts about God, surely the world’s most cynical man can also question his non-belief?
The publication this month of the selected correspondence of Mother Teresa has revealed that, for many years, the Saint of Calcutta entertained significant doubts about the existence of God.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 19, 2007

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Pipe-hittin’ kitten, emblem of the new Britain

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon seeing a photograph of the troubled English rock star Pete Doherty apparently administering a dose of crack to his pet cat
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 12, 2007



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Wings of desire

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that in-flight entertainment is exposing children to images of an increasingly violent and sexual nature.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 05, 2007

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Bull market

Flipping Out  on Bravo, plus Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge and Meerkat Manor
Jeff Lewis is real, baby.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  September 04, 2007

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Ashes to ashes

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning of the Russian man whose penis was set on fire by his ex-wife as he sat naked in front of the TV, drinking vodka
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 29, 2007

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In search of Kerouac

‘Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?’ . . . Lowell?!
Ashare drops me off, frantic Matt Ashare from my paper, swilling coffee in a ceramic mug at the wheel of his sulky-blue Saturn Ion and ranting about dogfighting.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 29, 2007

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Kundalini conjuror

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that Britney Spears may recently have spent the night with the heavy-metal illusionist Criss “Mindfreak” Angel
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 23, 2007



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Bouncers tell all

Tales from behind the velvet rope
A young man of my acquaintance, a callow pube of a London club-goer, got himself bounced not long ago from an establishment on the King’s Road.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 22, 2007

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The fall

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon the arrest of a Catholic priest in Frederick, Colorado, for jogging in the nude before sunrise
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 15, 2007

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Angels and devils of porn

A vintage X-rated actor and a goofball clergyman face off, in a debate sponsored by an energy drink: what the hell is going on?
Odd choice for a date, one would have thought — an evening of robust debate about pornography.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 15, 2007

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Animal husbandry

Ted Hughes and Les Murray
Les Murray and Ted Hughes, though they dwelled in each other’s antipodes, had plenty in common.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 15, 2007

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A dose of Dad

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that Keith Richards, though he did snort some of his deceased father’s ashes, did not — as was previously reported — chop them up with cocaine
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 09, 2007



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Endless rhapsody

How Queen trumped the punks
If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been necessary to invent them.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 07, 2007

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Enter sandman

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading about the anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who was suspended for falling asleep during an operation
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 02, 2007

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Presidency of the absurd

Looking for insights into Bush’s torture policy? Try limericks, rhinoceroses, and a pistol-packing midget bicyclist
In the literature of absurdity, torture is never far away.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  August 01, 2007

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Coup de colon

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that George W. Bush, before undergoing anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, temporarily handed over his presidential powers to Dick Cheney
By: JAMES PARKER  |  July 25, 2007

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All but the wank

Is Deep Throat sexier than the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate?
The image of Marlon Brando demanding that Maria Schneider stick two fingers up his ass, now seems the reductio ad absurdum of improvised acting.
By: JAMES PARKER  |  July 24, 2007


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