February 2009
74 posts
Wilco - Via Chicago →
I know that’s not what it’s about, but I like to pretend the first line of this song is written about someone deplorable, like Madonna.
January 2009
82 posts
More than this, there is nothing.
Unreasonably excited for People Got A Lotta Nerve. Whoops. Obviously, I mean Middle Cyclone.
“12. I HATE asians. I always have and always will. I think they are UGLY and...”
– These Facebook “Here Are 25 Things About Me That Are Mild- to Extremely Embarrassing (And I May Not Even Know It!)” lists are a fucking goldmine. Then again, it is depressing that I know this person, y/y? “Those kind of people” is precious.
LBJ, America's only actual insane President →
John Dickerson writes for Slate:
After Kennedy, LBJ carried on the presidential carrying on, though in his own inimitable style. Joseph Califano tells the story of drinking while riding around Lyndon Johnson’s ranch. “As we drove around we were followed by a car and a station wagon with Secret Service agents. The president drank Cutty Sark scotch and soda out of a large white plastic...
Dear Everyone,
I know that sensationalism and salacious gossip are “your thing”, but please do refrain from any longer cataloguing the publishing industry’s supposedly inevitable death. Demand for printed books has shrunk, yes, but hasn’t diminished, and is not in the process of diminishing; in other words, do you really think that even just the demand for academic literature in primary,...
Charlotte: I wish I could sleep.
Bob: Me too.
It is not my wont to post comically ignorant “blog posts”, written by people whom I barely know, but who happen to be Facebook “friends” with me, BUT this one is especially hilarious. First of all, it’s on the comical GOP.com “website”, because “the GOP”, who, heretofore, irrationally hated the internet for its association with Al Gore, feel...
NPR : Monitor Mix : Carrie Brownstein : Eight... →
This is a particularly great post on Carrie Brownstein’s gift-to-the-world of a blog, Monitor Mix for NPR. This little bit about Wilco stuck out to me as particularly eloquent, or, perhaps, it was just particularly resonant with me:
8. Many other songs during the last eight years used their own sonic lexicon to either subtly or pointedly reference a sense of dissatisfaction, powerlessness...
“Everybody laughed at liberal S&M fetishist Nancy Pelosi defending the...”
– Wonkette : Dems Will Take Birth Control Spending Out Of Stimulus Bill, Which Will Still Fail
“[Redacted] doesn’t know what to do now that she largely agrees with the...”
– Facebook status. This sort of sentiment (before and after) can make someone like me go fucking nuts. (Note: not meant as any sort of criticism of the nascent Obama administration.)
In the reading I have for class (c. 1830), this passage:
On passing through Chapel-street, I came to the corner of Thomas-street, which runs west from behind the hospital yard to Hudson-street.
describes this intersection. Lol @ Chapel-street = Church Street. It’s like when you read bastardized Modern American English versions of famous passages from the King James Bible.
You know how no one indents paragraphs on the internet except the New Yorker and it’s sort of comical that they do it, anyway? That’s how I feel about “…” (popularised English via Latin ellipsis, -is). There is actually a character “…” that Microsoft Word, Wordpress, Tumblr, and a variety of other, popular WYSIWYG text editors convert...
Jim Newell of Wonkette, on Bill Kristol:
As for the other group of mean liberals — the ones who discover in college that alliteration isn’t really the best vehicle for humor, and that it’s actually sort of offensive for this Maureen Dowd person to have 800 words in the Paper of Record twice-weekly — they just stop reading the Times op-ed page entirely, and then the other sections, one-by-one,...
Tweedy products are popular on Friday Night Lights, which shouldn’t be cancelled, if only for Wilco’s sake. I guess my embed not working is God paying me back for posting such an obvious thing. O, wait, no. That’s retarded.
It is funny, to me, to spell the word ‘scholar’ thusly: ‘sckolare’.
“Bobby? Where were you? You weren’t with homosexuals, were you?”
– Sigourney Weaver’s character in Prayers for Bobby
As much as I find myself liking Katy Perry in spite of myself, she is, truly, in over her head with her little ‘rivalry’ with Lily Allen.
At the same time, Katy Perry is just being douchey and annoying because she’s Katy Perry, and I would say that Lily shouldn’t even respond to her BS, but Lily Allen obviously would respond snidely to digs at her from Katy Perry,...
The question isn’t whether David Paterson told Caroline Kennedy that he wasn’t gonna pick her so she could withdraw to avoid embarrassment (or whatever!), it is how long ago he did so.
[Redacated] : FOCA doesn’t mean babies will be getting killed left and right.
(someone’s facebook status)
To which I jokingly responded (in my head):
It does if I have anything to say about it.*
*Note: a ‘dead baby joke’, not an abortionist rant.
Lol! The guy on CNN just said that this is the first time in history ever that the President has escorted the ex-President out of the White House, except that it’s not and he just made that up and WHAT’S MORE REGARDLESS: Wolf Blitzer just said it was a ‘tradition’ within the minute prior.
“Donovan: “I’m not afraid of the Internet because it’s that the...”
– HA! BURN! (Idolator via Hypebot)
Joseph Lowery’s Benediction > Obama’s Inaugural Address
Super Poet Obama Jesus Lady got a weird riddim, or is that the ‘poetry’ part?
“Intro to Gender and Sexuality” prof will be shameless libtard and let us out early, RIGHT (class starts at eleven)!?!
Wonkette : Christopher Hitchens Makes Out With... →
You know who’s having a doggone humdinger of an Inauguration weekend is that Christopher Hitchens, the ex-Trotskyist drink-soaked popinjay war columnist for Slate, Vanity Fair… wherever else! The Internet is awash with stories of his shenanigans this weekend, including a sexy kiss with fellow British anger bear Andrew Sullivan at the Slate party and some hip-hop dancing at the party for Slate’s...
It’ll be weird, tomorrow, living in one of those countries who are head-over-heels in love with their Head of State.
“Leti, if we add some of this ‘crunk’ thing, it could help us get...”
– Hayden Panetierre’s character to ‘Leti’ in Bring It ON: All or Nothing
I think this is my favorite song on Fearless.
Tim Riggins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Tim Riggins is a fictional character on the NBC-DirecTV(The 101) television show Friday Night Lights, portrayed by actor Taylor Kitsch. Riggins is the fullback on the Dillon Panthers. Every boy between the ages of 13-18 wants to be him. Throughout the show he struggles with alcohol, girls, and his own relationship with his father. He lives alone with his brother Billy, after his dad had moved...
My butt itches is itching like crazy, and I took a shower.
Whenever I make that reference, no one gets it, and then I look disgusting.
“In 1789, George Washington published a deeply religious — albeit not...”
– Beliefnet’s Steve Waldman today in the WSJ on the history of the inaugural prayer. I love, “beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions,” so, so much.
Dude, remember how good Icky Thump was is?
UPDATE: I see that this isn’t working, so, like, go here.
God, I hate looking for work.
An hour into a movie in which Clint Eastwood’s character uses the word “gook” at least once a minute, he calls some black characters “spooks” and there is a commotion of shock and awe in the theatre that causes me to wonder if me and the gasping audience and I are watching the same movie.
“‘I really like the Batman movie,’ Mr. Rushdie said. ‘I think...”
– I am seriously obsessed with this man. (Carpetbagger via ONTD via fourfour)
I, like, seriously love Andrea Mitchell. Even though she’s married to Alan Greenspan. Developing…
“Get away from my cat, you fat turd.”
– Me to her oversized, orange, probably neutered assaulter.
