January 2008
Chris Berman Reveals His Inner Self →
iracane:
JESUS
It was only a matter of time. JESUS
Professional sports is very interesting →
One of the welcome things about sports blogs...
Watchdavid:
The Dramatic Chipmunk has a new friend. (via livejamie)
The verdict is still out →
Analyzing There Will Be Blood's soundtrack →
Jimmy Carter has really calmed down
Today’s announcement that Jimmy Carter has been “titillated” by Obama’s campaign sure is a departure from Carter’s earlier recorded feelings on the 2008 field. He seems to have really calmed down since he wrote this:
You better get down on your hands and knees and kiss Jimmy Carter’s rosy-red Georgia-peach-picking ass and beg me to run your fucking country...
More Juno hate
It’s not really hate; both myself and the below writer like the movie. Still, twee tears make me grow … stronger:
We’re cool, Juno, but this cannot be. I guess I’m glad that the Academy has, in consecutive years, cultivated a turbulent, media-friendly square-off between Juno’s quirky ilk and other, far graver contenders. We’ll have lots to discuss in the months ahead—everyone wins....
davidcho:
Gnarles Barkley - “Run”
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“If I never see another “The Art of _________” headline, it will be...”
– Jordan David. Hear hear.
Step away from the computer
I just realized I spent the entire night on this thing, and didn’t really accomplish all that much. As to the giant pile of laundry on my bed, I accomplished nothing. And I didn’t write.
So all around, it’s been a hell of night.
A hearty welcome →
We have a newcomer in our midst. He also happens to be a badass.
“The best movie I’ve seen in the last two years was “There Will Be Blood.” I...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via beekeepersclub)
Gimme Little Drink: The Eighth Annual G.W. Bush... →
A yearly tradition of the highest order.
Thom Yorke - Reckoner →
Live on the BBC. Beautiful.
Oh, Juno
I won’t quoth the Weiss on the merits of the soundtrack — even though that’s what the below is really a lead-in to — because I have someone whom I love that loves the song Cera and Page sing together at the film’s close. Instead, I’ll just quote the most succint description of how I felt watching the dialogue in this movie:
It doesn’t feel like Cody envisions...
“The internet has so vastly increased the potency of urban legends, so quickened...”
– Hilary Mantel
— via Alex Balk
Do you ever have the sinking feeling that everyone around you knows something you don’t? Like, you’ve got a stain on your back or something, and no one has the balls to tell you?
Judging by the utter lack of people at Midway today — this is by far the calmest I’ve ever seen any airport, let alone one in a giant metropolis — something really cool must be going on in...
Click to clean your screen →
via Graham & webmarc — david
The iPhone diaries
Current favorite thing about my iPhone: I can play Chess on the Chess app whenever I want, even at work when it feels like my soul is dying.
Current least favorite thing about my iPhone: The computer will never, ever, ever let me win, even on the easiest level. So I get to feel logically retarded several times a day. Fun!
Shocking dialogue: Zaza Pachulia suspended →
God, this is awesome.
1 tag
Les Savy Fav — What Would Wolves Do?
Clipse, Re-Up Gang: 20K Money Making Brothers on... →
(via Gorilla vs. Bear)
Happy Birthday, Ryan
You handsome bastard.
God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters,... →
— jeskeets
Fresh reading for the evening. Review here later in the week.
There Will Be Bandwidth
me: they can film me in front of my fish
Alex: haha
me: this is my fish and partner, amare
ladies and gentleman, if i tell you i am a blogger, you'll agree
Ryan: haha
i drink your bandwidth
drink it!
me: i drink it up!
My Netvibes is broken
me: i am rss-less right now
and i feel naked
how sad is that?
Ryan: just had to get the new shiny update, didn't you?
me: apparently
i've learned my lesson
from my brief tour it looked cool for the social capabilities
but i doubt i'll use that shit very much
me: god, this sucks
i'm, like, "reading websites"
and "scanning bookmarks"
who the fuck does that anymore
Ryan: bookmarks are cool dude
it takes you right there!
Dear Rich People: Please don't leave us
Yes, we’ve heard that the widespread woes of subprime borrowers are now hurting the primest of prime borrowers. (An act of karmic justice, perhaps?) Thousands of investment bankers are losing their jobs, and year-end bonuses for many on Wall Street were disappointing. We feel your pain. But that’s no reason to stop spending. Stagnant wages haven’t stopped the rest of us from...
WatchVideo games are destroying our society.
Well, when the gays aren’t corrupting it, and baseball players using steroids aren’t in season, and Hollywood liberofascists are on strike from writing their pinko mainfestos … then video games are definitely destroying our society.
Hitch on Huckabee
Thus, as well as crassly behaving exactly like someone “from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” former Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas deliberately aligned himself with the rancorous minority who are still not reconciled to the idea that South Carolina may not officially consecrate racism and slavery and secession. “Your flag”? What an insult,...
Move over, boomer bastards
The Airing of Grievances says what we’ve all been thinking, but couldn’t say when we were home at Christmas:
The one thing you won’t here any pundit say is the simple fact that the Baby Boomer Generation is fucking bankrupt - politically and intellectually bankrupt since at least Watergate, but probably back as far as when they booed Dylan off the stage for “going...
Surprise! Teens not sophisticated →
This example of quality journalism describes how young’ens are not as “Google savvy” as common wisdom would hold. That sounds like a practical story, except I don’t see how it is some grand surprise that teens aren’t sophisticated and have short attention spans.
I mean, I used to listen to Good Charlotte. It happens.
— hellonewworld
I was a big fan of Everclear....
Prospector’s Quartet, Johnny Greenwood,...
