It's Christmas in March

It's another Wednesday, and we have brand new content from Ritija Gupta, complete with figgy pudding, dancing Santas, and mildly toxic Christmas cheer.

This week we start a new advertising campaign - more soon.

The New Yorker's Alex Ross reviews the Met's ill-fated production of "Tristan und Isolde" and famous operatic debacles past.

"The most priceless aspect of the 'Aida' imbroglio was the double take delivered by Ildikó Komlósi, the mezzo singing Amneris, as she turned around to find a replacement tenor embodying Radames, his rumpled gray blouse suggesting a change of scene from ancient Egypt to the bargain floor at H & M."

"I never got to sleep alone till I got married.”

From the latest New Yorker, a gathering of elderly Jewish comedians.

We've added two new features to The Foghorn this week.

The first is a search page that allows you to find past articles gaily festooned with irrelevant advertising.

The second is a Classics page. How can a magazine less than one month old have any classics, you might ask? Well, we think ahead. In the future, the front page content will be changing weekly, and this provides a way to keep generating hits from best-loved features of the past, like Dyske Suematsu's The Works of George W. Bush and Katy Spindler's Whalebone Courtship, a favorite among Scandinavian readers who didn't catch the cracks I made about them in my recent IKEA piece.

The best sentence I've read this week, from Hilton Als' review of a new production of "The Seagulls" in The New Yorker:

" . . . she deserves better than the show’s costume designer, Suzy Benzinger, has given her. (Her dresses are like something Bob Mackie might have whipped up for a “Seagull” parody starring Carol Burnett.)"

Apologies for any subscribers that have noticed weird doublings and other errors in the RSS feed today. We are still working out some of the technology but hope that by tomorrow, all will be right again and you won't be hearing from us until next Wednesday, with a new feed full of all new humor and far less illegible gibberish. Less, anyway.

It's Wednesday again, and that means a whole new week's worth of content on The Foghorn. Sit back and enjoy our musings on dubious memoirs, ontological uncertainty, dead whales, and affordable shelving.

The Foghorn is addicted to Duelism, the surreal, funny, and haunting new blog by an unnamed Author. This Author pits representatives of the world's professions against one another alphabetically with comically grim results. Think Waiting for Godot meets Jobs People Do in upstate New York.

The Foghorn is now the proud owner of a largely functional RSS feed. Subscribe today!

The Foghorn is classing things up a bit! We are leading off this week with two new works in verse, the poetry of Miss Gillian Block and Ms. Katy Spindler. Also two new essays and a short fiction piece.

We've also added a new box at the bottom of each piece, with handy links to Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, reddit, and any other company with a made-up name we can find. If you like what you read, pass it on!

We are also eagerly seeking new submissions. Email editors at thefoghornmagazine dot com today.

Google AdWords has now been installed on the site for about one week. In that time, we've generated more ads for shofars than any other product despite not using the word "shofar" once on the site.

That little algorithm is genius.

We wanted to turn your attention to the first season of the reality T.V. parody Arts & Crafts Pro, created by Adam Goldman. There are four episodes so far, make sure to view them all. And stay tuned, more episodes may be in the works...

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