November 2008
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October 2008
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Is it bad that when I read the headline “Ambulance Crash Hurts 7” that I thought, “Only hurts? Is that really front page news?”
A family huddles, frozen, awaiting the digital aperture to click, seemingly celebrating an elder patriarch’s day of birth. As they hunch and freeze half-hearted smiles, the brevity of mortality hangs heavy in the air. I bite into my burger as the camera plays a snapping sound.
Intimacy in a public space
Last week, I found myself leisurely strolling down my block, heading home after a day of office-chair-sitting. A couple was walking in front of me at a decent clip, not allowing their affection and public display thereof to slow them down. The three of us all strode at about the same speed with me more than content to lag behind them as opposed to stepping on the accelerator to pass them and...
“Why would I say something that isn’t true?”
– Synecdoche, New York
Watchpaulscheer:
WOW! You Must Watch this…Ron Howard is Amazing. I can’t believe he did this!
Ron Howard (of Arrested Development, not Cinderella Man) travels through time to implore you to vote.
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WatchThe Daily Show has gone hard against the McCain/Palin claims of “real America” against the… other (?) America, particularly in regards to how the Elephants pimp out 9/11 and Ground Zero before slamming East Coast Elites (kudos to the HUAC reference). Jon Stewart seems ready to pull an Andy Bernard, punching a hole right through his desk after playing yet another Palin...
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Charges dropped, but Five Men Remain Detained at... →
Yeah, that’s still going on.
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WatchPortman. Jones. Puppies.
Almost Python-esque in its delicious absurdity and satire. (via joblo)
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So a soldier is qualified to teach students because fought in Iraq? You do not want them to meet any of the credentialing requirements, Mr. McCain? Not one?
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“I would like to cut those business’ taxes instead of spreading the wealth...”
– John McCain, a true maverick.
Do promoters of Broadway shows know no other adjective besides “smash?”
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WatchA really strange Mean Magazine piece entitled This is Not Sex, directed by Tony American History X Kaye and starring Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen. Surprisingly, only one masturbatory joke. (via cinematical)
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Digital Love in an Analogue Space
My first cell phone had a series of text message templates. They included such generally specific communique as “Be home soon” and “Where should we meet?”
Disturbingly, though, one template simply said, “I love you.” While the phrase may be the second most used in the English language (right behind “I think we should see other people,” luckily not...
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Define the word, please
Mr. Brian Williams, I appreciate you as a newsman and as a sharp wit, but there is no difference between “the facts the candidates used and the facts we have.” A fact is an objective truth, no matter who mentions it; that’s why it’s a fact. Either what they say is true, or it is not. The truth does not change if a presidential candidate says something untrue.
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$860,000,000,000 sounds pedestrian after a $700,000,000,000 bailout.
I find our lack of breath mints disturbing.
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WatchMark Walhberg Talks to Animals
“A lot of people want to eat you, but I just want to talk, okay?”
via soupsoup
You need a Miller Lite.
Living the High Life:
Driving a Mercedes.
Smoking a large cigar.
Eating a Subway sandwich.
Only in LA (?).
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“I impart no objective knowledge, no studied numbers, but purely
subjective,...”
– Why I love Craig, and why I’m happy he pointed be towards his new collab blog with Felipe and Andrew, “Planet People.”
As a sidenote, what is proper punctuation for the name of a blog? Quotation marks? Italics? Consideration.