O-Bits: When Life Overtakes Jokes Edition

We put together what we thought was a pretty funny bunch of O-Bits for you today. The theme was The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But the mass killing in Florida today makes it all seem in worse taste than even we’re used to. In its place we’re running nothing, except a link to Woman Against Gun Violence’s benefit concert, Fun Lovers Unite!, in Los Angeles on May 24th. The line-up hasn’t been finalized, but their NY benefit featured the likes of Yo La Tengo, Janeane Garofalo, John Hodgman, and Tammy Faye Starlite.

Steven Mirkin

Steven Mirkin’s diverse career has taken him from politics to pop culture to high art, offering him a front row seat to some of the most fascinating events and personalities of our time: writing speeches, fundraising appeals and campaign materials for Ed Koch, John Heinz and independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson; chronicling the punk/new wave scenes in New York and London; interviewing musicians such as Elton John, John Lydon and Buck Owens; profiling modern masters Julian Schnabel, Paul Schrader and Jonathan Safran Foer; and writing for TV shows including 21, The Chamber, Let's Make A Deal, and Rock Star: INXS.