March 2008
I don’t have a lot of books. I tend to leave them places, like my parents’ attic and what books I do have are usually an accident of some story I was writing. But the last time I had sex the guy happened to find Beckett’s Three Novels in my room. This is perhaps the only highbrow book currently in my possession. Inspired by this story I began reading The Unnamable at Starbucks....
Regarding the flood of photos, tweets and status updates last night: I might have been somewhat drunk. More than usual.
Don’t get too addicted to this. By the way, why does it looke like she’s got conjunctivitis?
This morning President Bush said each one of us would get a $1200.00 tax rebate. It was previously slated to be $1400.00, but they dropped it to a $1200.00 tax rebate because of various budget problems. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the...
fimoculous: Fuck. My ex’s muxtape is better than mine. I might as well kill myself.
Friends with an ex? It CAN exist. (Edit: Maybe...
drunkbrunch: feistyred: Before I drifted off into peaceful slumber on Saturday night, the last thing I heard was, you know (ex) is bringing his new gf to Easter Dinner… (cont’d) It just takes a lot of time, and you have to keep your head in check. Often. Another prerequisite: your ex must not be an asshole. This would include the avoidance of any demeaning or insensitive...
On that note, the closest I've been with my own...
Whoa, Balk: TONY: I remember when he was born, I would hold him in my arms. He was an adorable kid, too. Big eyes. DR. MELFI: You always talk about him more like a son. TONY: In some ways he was, especially after his dad died. When he was little, I used to give him rides. I’d put him in the basket of the butcher bike, pedal him around, back when Satriale’s made deliveries. I reminded him of that...
Interesting Links, State-of-Affairs. A summary: The Rank-Link Imbalance - New York Times Saturn return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The L Magazine - The Anxiety of the Middle Class New Yorker Rick Falkvinge: Why the US is collapsing On a personal note, I feel crappy and discouraged.
If you laugh at this, you should sit next to me on the train to hell.
Last hope in a weak economy? Mom and Dad - Yahoo! News Gah. This whole piece reads like a 60 Minutes transcript - a sort-of warning to septugenarians that their own children are coming back home to eat them. I read the story differently, and the title in my head was “Roommates more common during economic downturn.” It’s an increasing trend, but not a new one, that adults choose...
[11:12:07 AM] Brian Van Nieuwenhoven says: I think I’m taking my old bowling ball back to NYC to use at Leisure Time and the Gutter [11:13:10 AM] PR_Overlord says: What did you think of The Gutter? [11:14:24 AM] Brian Van Nieuwenhoven says: good [11:14:36 AM] Brian Van Nieuwenhoven says: bowling is a rather expensive proposition no matter where you go in nyc [11:14:48 AM] Brian Van...
Justifications
Reblogged without comment. doree: Last night my mom told me she stopped eating meat two months ago, in part because a piece of steak made her sick, in part because it’s something she claims to have been thinking about “for a long time” (though I’ve never in my life heard her mention anything about not eating meat anymore), and in part because she says she has been thinking about reducing her...
Breaking: Men Don't Know When Not To Beg For Sex
So, like, now there’s a study that says men are fucking clueless about sexual signals. Thank you, Captain Obvious! The results of the study show that not only did men totally mistake friendly gestures as “I wanna get it on”, but they also fucked it up when the girls were trying to get laid! See, ladies, this might be why it’s so fucking miserable to deal with dudes all the...
24 Hours of FAIL on Twitter (part of the way down the post)
Did he have Old Glory Insurance? I’ll be nicer to my Roomba from now on.
Steve Irwin’ed!
According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., US corporate businesses stand to lose $1.2 billion dollars because people think about college basketball during tournament season. Additionally, Challenger, Gray predicts that firms lose unestimated billions of dollars by simply having a bunch of fucking idiots on the payroll. CG also states that American corporations have lost...
Barack Obama: New York Still Baffled By... →
johncarney: Notice how the earnest truth is always the same thing: blame the legacy of discrimination. Find the Other, Place Blame There. Nope. That’s not pandering at all. And what about those bold, new progressive policy initiatives cribbed directly from the LBJ administration? So refreshing to hear echoes of the past repackaged as bold new reforms. I’m almost surprised that Obama didn’t...
Stuff White People Don’t Like.
I’m somewhat offended and somewhat surprised: Jason Kottke is too white to even cut-&-paste the “n” word.
Things you should know: (via Wikipedia) “The Rockefeller Archive Center, a division of Rockefeller University, is a vast three-story underground bunker built below the Martha Baird Rockefeller Hillcrest mansion on the family estate at Pocantico (see Kykuit). Along forty-foot-long walls of shelves on rails, patrolled by ten full-time archivists, is the entire repository of personal and...
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
alexbalk (and I’m sorry to bastardize Joe Giganticpussy here, he actually made a half-decent point somewhere in there about the sadness of loneliness): The late, legendary television programmer Brandon Tartikoff used to tell a story about a famous producer (reportedly Robert Evans) who once opened a pitch with the line, “A woman’s pussy hair is stronger than the trans-Atlantic cable.” The...
While we’re talking about asshole school administrators, let’s give a huge round of applause to Principal Timothy Voels of W. Tresper Clarke School for blocking the school entrance to a disabled child and his helper dog. Additionally, this is after the state ruled in an ongoing dispute that the kid was allowed to bring the dog. Honestly, this sort of subject material could feed its...
Jeez, that last post was totally out of line. So let’s do a little public service journalism to make up for it, okay? Sheridan Communications and Technology Middle School eighth-grader Michael Sheridan was suspended from school for three days, barred from attending an honors student dinner and stripped of his title of class vice president. ...
So, New York’s next governor is a blind, black man. Hrrm? Wait, it gets better! So, a reporter approached David Patterson today, and asked him, “What’s it like to be the first black AND blind governor of New York State?” And he replied, “What do mean, I’m black?! Does dad know?”
Follow-up: HE’S DONE. Once again, how fucking stupid do you have to be to let this happen? I mean, how badly is this guy addicted to sex? Northward of $80,000? It’s actually somewhat sorrowful that his political career - well, what was left of it - was ruinied because the guy can’t keep his snake in his pants. He clearly has a serious problem, I hope he gets help for it for his...
I’m so glad we confirmed “Moesha” is completely fictional.
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