June 2007
71 posts
Enter Acting, Pursued by Applause →
Open letter to the moron who sat next to me at last night’s performance of Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare in the Park and applauded, loudly, after every. fucking. scene: read this article, memorize it, and shut. the Fuck. UP!! next time. Love, Laura.
Jesus...WTF? →
Yep, my sentiments exactly.
Message in a Bottle →
Excellent article on why drinking bottled water is, and has always been, stupid, self-indulgent bullshit.
Plastic duck armada is heading for Britain after... →
Everybody out of the water! A flotilla of plastic ducks is heading for Britain’s beaches!
Dead Air: New TV Channel Takes on Death and Dying →
I suppose it’s only a matter of time before Fox starts a Death Channel. (via Spiegel Online)
Why I did not blog much today
I hate sitting in the outdoors. I hate bright sunlight. I hate playing team sports. So what was I forced, for business reasons, to do today? Yep, that’s right — sit outside, in the bright sunlight, playing team sports. Today sucked.
WatchAh, New Yorkers — you gotta love ‘em. Sort of. Video Dog - Salon.com
Giuliani To Regent University: ‘The Amount Of... →
Wow, Giuliani sucking up to Pat Robertson at his wacko fundie indoctrination camp, aka Regent “University.” What a shock. (via Think Progress)
WatchJakeAndAmir.com: IQ Test (via tumbl.us)
Gioia to graduates: 'Trade easy pleasures for more... →
“I have a reccurring nightmare. I am in Rome visiting the Sistine Chapel. I look up at Michelangelo’s incomparable fresco of the ‘Creation of Man.’ I see God stretching out his arm to touch the reclining Adam’s finger. And then I notice in the other hand Adam is holding a Diet Pepsi.” Poet Dana Gioia’s commencement address to Stanford University...
We Didn't Get The Paris Interview →
“I have let you down, and I think it’s best to just admit it and move on. Face The Nation did not get the big interview with Paris Hilton. I feel terrible about it.” Excellent video of Bob Schieffer being drily sarcastic.
Making them feel small: ads wag the finger at... →
Yep, they actually do mean “feel small” in the way you might imagine. Unfortunately, due to the prudery of my countrymen, this ad campaign would never fly here in the United States.
Hitchens Book Debunking The Deity Is Surprise Hit →
I should probably just go ahead and change the name of the blog to “Christopher Hitchens.” What can I say — I have a soft spot for the this one particular neocon lunatic.
WatchMr. Toast takes a walk. (via Dan Goodsell’s MySpace page)
The middle classes have discovered they've been... →
Although this is an article from a British paper, the references to London can just as easily be replaced with ones to New York City, if you wish.
Former Catholic Sisters Says Even Mother Teresa is... →
And somewhere, Christopher Hitchens smiles quietly.
UK Muslims divided on Rushdie protests →
“While some British Muslims protested against the award of a knighthood to the writer Salman Rushdie yesterday, amid reports of strikes and demonstrations in India, Iran and Pakistan, others distanced themselves from the effigy-burning and calls for violent reprisals.” Hoo boy. (via Guardian UK)
WatchEveryone knows there is nothing better than bacon. Well, one thing is better than bacon. (No, the irony of putting this entry immediately below the one above is not lost on me.) (via Video Dog, salon.com)
Dumbocracy in America →
“If people were merely ignorant about economics, I wouldn’t be worried. After all, if you never studied a subject, we’d expect you just to be agnostic about it. The real problem is that people have strong opinions about economics even though they’ve never studied it - and their strong opinions tend to be the opposite of what you’d learn in an economics class.”...
Modern dog cat pet furniture →
Like we don’t buy enough expensive shit for our pets, but these things are pretty nicely designed. If you’re as sick as looking at the stupid sisal/carpet/wood scratching post as I am, you might want to have a look.
Imperial presidency declared null and void →
Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit’s stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality. (via salon.com)
The worst celebrity profile ever written? →
I didn’t mean to make Angelina Jolie the theme of this week’s Frothy Paradise, but this article may be the best takedown ever written. (via Slate)
“Angelina Jolie is so famous that when she looks in the mirror her reflection...”
– Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
My sex in the convent →
Sex with nuns? Good heavens. (via The Guardian)
eBay-nomics →
Auctions lead people to do weird things. Anyone who’s paid $75 for a used board game on ebay might say this is not exactly news, but I’m posting it anyway.
AlterNet: Twenty Things You Should Know About... →
Yet another reason to stop wasting resources on The War on Some Drugs.
The Selling of the American Wedding →
Plight your troth — and empty your father’s bank account.
Sgt Pepper must die! →
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? It’s meant to be a classic album, but all you can hear is a load of boring tripe … we’ve all felt that way. And so have the musicians we asked to nominate the supposedly great records they’d gladly never hear again.” (My personal favorite on this list: The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.) (via The Guardian)
Fruit: An Affordable, Quick Decorating Idea →
Please do me a favor. Look at the photo on this page and tell me whether it is not the most purely disgusting thing you’ve seen in years. I mean, tomatoes floating in a vase full of water? WTF? What sick mofo came up with this?
Bee Update →
Apparently, it’s the weather killing off the bees. (I should probably start making some clever bee puns for these posts, but I’m too lazy to try to think of any.)
Air force looked at spray to turn enemy gay →
Oh good christ, this couldn’t be real. Could it? Sort of gives new life to the old joke about “military intelligence,” on a couple of levels. (via The Guardian)
17 foods to try before you die →
I’ve wanted to try langos, number three on the list, for years, ever since reading the Harlan Ellison story All the Lies That are My Life. (Shut UP, like you didn’t read Ellison too when you were in your 20s.)
The Hitchens brothers: Anatomy of a row →
The Hitchens brothers don’t seem to get on very well. (via The Independent)
Jonathan Miles: Fingerjig Typing Game →
Test your typing skills. Nice graphics, and pretty fun little test.
“Well, lessee, the total dollar value of all of the FTE consumed just today on...”
– Letter from one BobbyG on Salon.com, responding to the inane rhetorical question from another reader, “Are you attempting to goad [Paris Hilton] into committing suicide?”