August 2008
48 posts
“The idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the...”
– New York Times, McCain’s Baked Alaska. Okay seriously, now I feel like I’ve got my whole Sarah Palin phase out of my system. I trust we’ve all formulated our opinions of her by now.
Is anybody else already sick of...
hearing the terms “heartbeat away from the presidency”? I mean I know it’s usually an argument I agree with when it includes that phrase, but it doesn’t mean that everybody has to use it.
Should Obama lose...
Maybe you don’t remember, but most of us felt pretty shitty in 2004. Farenheit 9/11 had come out, P. Diddy told us that everyone who needed to would vote or be perished, Kerry was far up in the polls, things seemed good. I was utterly and despicably heartbroken them and I think millions of us were too.
This would be more shitty but still comparable to then, at least.
furrowedbrow:
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“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“We ate because we couldn’t competently drive if we didn’t eat...”
– Me, tonight, after arriving back in Oakland from my excursion to Napa. Maybe I should stop vacationing around eating opportunities.
Rachel Maddow to Replace Dan Abrams on MSNBC →
Not till September 8th, but still - HALLELUJAH!
furrowedbrow:
julyshewillfly:
robot-heart:
Today is one of the rare days I wish I had cable…
YES! YES! YES! It’s about time.
This is exciting.
Leave it to the thugalicious mallrats from my old...
“the incident occurred at the Cobb Dolphin 19 movie theater while people were watching the movie Pineapple Express late Sunday night. Witnesses reported what they saw. “I saw they started yelling, and then they started swinging, and then the next thing I know, the guys just started yelling, ‘Oh, I got stabbed, I got stabbed,’ and they left the movie theater. I was kind of...
Why 'Crash' is easily one of the stupidest, worst...
Here’s an article that sums it up better that I can.
I’d love to say ‘no disrespect’ if you like it, but no, I mean at least a little disrespect.
This movie is for:
A) People unfamilar with actual racism.
B) People who are extremely pessimistic and paranoid about racism but are in their heart, actually racist themselves.
C) People who love movies they claim are...
Time to Kill
Drank a lot of coffee today?
zalpz:
My mind works faster then I can process what I am thinking. I spend a lot of time going over details within the details. I can look at somebody and tell what they had for breakfast by the way they tied their shoes. I sometimes look at strangers and think of what obsticles have they been though… I’m sure that most of the time I am wrong but when puzzle...
What part of 'people should not work during...
The worst part is that everybody at my job swears that they’re so beyond this “little storm” and that I’m being an alarmist. Hey assholes - driving in 40 mph winds and pounding rain is not a part of my fucking job description.
If you want to prove your masculinity by not letting a once-a-year event stop from “getting your work on” then go right ahead - just...
“China has a rich history of age falsification in Olympics competition,...”
– David Flumenbaum: Scandal of the Ages. Are you fucking kidding me? They’ve done this before? I can’t believe that in all the articles about the age-dilemma that I’ve read, this is the only one that mentions this. Journalists are usually irresponsible when it comes to divulging too...
“Attention all residents… attention all residents…”
– Said the speaker on the wall of my high-rise apartment (normally used to issue a recorded fire alarm warning) before abruptly turning off and saying nothing else. Now I’m not much for paranoia, but damn if that isn’t unsettling.
Anybody else want to punch the gay-sounding...
Also - this new points system is crap and a half.
“Which goes to show you: never stick your dick in the pudding. It might still be...”
– Yahtzee, video game reviewer extraordinaire, in the latest Zero Puncuation review. He’s actually explaining that Prince of Persia: Warrior Within had significantly better gameplay than its predecessor but ruined the story and characters and got bad reviews.
WatchEtienne De Crecy’s Live setup. It doesn’t top Daft Punk but it certainly deserves to be mentioned alongside them. Here’s hoping I get a chance to see it somewhere.
On Religious Names
I’ve met at least two kids named Usmail (pronounced OOUS-MAH-eel.)
zalpz:
woodshavings:
Us Latinos have a tendency to give our kids names that most English speaking people wouldn’t dream of using. Boys named Jesus, for example, are a dime a dozen. Today, though, even I have been shocked into disbelief. I met a girl who’s first name is Virgin and who’s second name is Mary.
Oh yeah. When...
Did I make this word up?
Giffer: meaning Girlfriend. Derivative of the shorthand GF used in text messages and such. I’ve been using it for months and have no idea if where I got it from.
Upcoming Movie "Soul Men" That Stars Bernie Mac... →
Somewhere, somehow, there’s a greedy producer who’s a little happy about the shitty things that happened this weekend.
“If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day, and do...”
– Homer Simpson (via agirlacity)
Multideistic Hoe-Down
In the bible it says “thou shalt have no other gods before me” - is this God admitting that there are other Gods?
That would actually make God a lot easier to believe in for me.
NPR just told me...
That if you yawn next to a dog, it will also yawn.
I Am Rich →
No! They took it off the App store. It’s the first Dadaist app ever.
david:
$999 iPhone App
God, I love that new Beck album, Modern Guilt....
Certain People
I might not have enough information here, but it’s always been my opinion that human beings are much simpler than we believe we are.
Even calculated superficality (otherwise known as ‘talking to people at work’) can express a lot of your personality than you would expect. The majority of human communication exists in the language of faces reacting to each other via thousands of...
