by snarly | Sep 27, 2015 | Other Apologies
Police in the town on North Swindon, in the county of Wiltshire in Southwest England, have apologized for repeatedly turning on their sirens in a residential neighborhood. The officers were trying to settle a debate among four-year-olds about whether police sirens go...
by snarly | Sep 21, 2015 | Personal Apologies, Religious Apologies, Youth apologizes
Over at Tablet Magazine (where Snarly is a columnist) there is a delightful comic about all the different apologies the artist owes for long-ago incidents. It’s funny and also sad. Read the whole thing here. I also loved this story, which reads almost like a...
by snarly | Sep 19, 2015 | Artistic apologies
This is a 2007 piece called Forgiveness, by artist Dan Attoe. I don’t know what it means. And it’s art, so your interpretation’s as good as mine. It’s made of neon light, wire, a transformer and controllers. Here it is in a well-lit room at the...
by snarly | Sep 12, 2015 | Religious Apologies
Hey, as we head into Rosh HaShanah, let’s go through the 12th century sage Moses Maimonides’s RULES FOR APOLOGIZING. It won’t be boring, I swear. Get back here. Maimonides (who had the jaunty nickname Rambam) was a Spanish physician and chicken soup...
by snarly | Aug 29, 2015 | Celebrity Apologies
Tila Tequila (née Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen) is a damaged person who should receive no attention. I am angry at myself for addressing this, yet here I go, mostly because as Gawker writer Rich Juzwiak said on Twitter, “A new high bar for apologies has been...