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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 52
Try to be best / ‘Cause you’re only a man / And a man’s gotta learn to take it
Try to believe / Though the going gets rough /That you gotta hang tough to make it
History repeats itself / Try and you’ll succeed / Never doubt that you’re the one / And you can have your dreams!
You’re the best! Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
You’re the Best! Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
"Hey! Did Schneider go to Hollywood Upstairs Journalism School too?"
Try helping yourselves.
Should I get Dr. Pepper or Diet Dr. Pepper? Fortunately, my question, like every other in the known universe, was answered by a passage in epic tome "Sexual Personae."
... I have never run across anybody who has ever read Mickey Kaus or The New Republic except to make fun of them.
Cyborg! CYYYYBORGGGGG!!!!
Daniel Johnston beginning a stay at the Austin State Hospital
Slacker beginning a year-long run at the Dobie Theater
I bought my first CD, which may have been the Stone Roses "Fools' Gold" single at Waterloo Records
I don't think I watched television that year, but I did play a lot of Tecmo Bowl
First bad experience with tequila in an upperclass dorm
... by the number of obsessives who spend hours a day posting theories about the show. It is about 75% horrifically acted, and its sense of mystery is only cumulative, meaning that it just enters the feedback loop for the obsessives.
Here's a theory: they are making it up as they go along, using a rapidly rotating set of writers.
... you would think that somebody who ostensibly studied history at whatever prep school he went to, got an Oxford degree, and spent 10 years as Prime Minister wouldn't sound like a goddamned World Net Daily editorialist when discussing recent Middle Eastern history.
I mean, why not ask "Why are there so many refugees?" or "Why are there about half a million people dead?" That makes about as much as "Why are they so angry?"
Something like "Thoroughly Discredited Senator Dresses Up Like an Assclown, Spouts Numerous, Easily Debunked Falsehoods About Foreign Policy"
... but I can tell Chris Matthews that desperation for a strong, paternalistic GOP candidate is a stinky cologne*.
* Sorry, Super Troopers.
We've moved on to Plan B: Dicking Around Even Harder!
You can use the above title next time Professor Reynolds unskillfully links to something he doesn't understate, disingenuously tacks on three words of original commentary, and then mewls like a hungry kitten when called out on it by others (since the cowardly turd doesn't have comments).
... is the tone of "Why is the IAEA hassling Pakistan? Just because it's a nuclear power and has sold technology to every rogue state imaginable? Please! Let's focus here!"
One of the advisors to the Sock Puppet-in-Chief showed him a video of a Halo 3 battle instead of actual Iraq War footage. Which might also explain the enigmatic quotations about lasers and giant space insects.
.... the first of the cloned John Podhoretz embryos has finally reached adulthood.
c:/windows/documents/petraeus/whitehouse/up_is_down.ppt
... now Brooks' radioactive garbage, which is written with the same Mad Libs program that David Broder's columns are, has been leaked into the general populace again.
Who knew?
"Hitlers seem to be popping up everywhere!" "It's impossible to get a date... once they find out you're Hitler, forget it. It's over." (youtube here).
"While every measurable indicator has gone to hell, things are actually not the absolute worst they've ever been! Vote GOP '08!"
Since Glenn seemed to like the first one... this one is taken from the Simpsons:
"Well, of course... EVERYTHING looks bad if you REMEMBER it!"
Since the writers are on strike, I pledge 4 cents to George Meyer, who wrote that line in the service of the most surreal Simpsons episode ever, The Mysterious Voyage of Homer (guest starring Johnny Cash as the voice of the coyote).
Yet keep going for another 40 years. Don't get me wrong, I love him and a lot of his music, but for fuck's sake, boomers! Haven't you already ruined the Beatles for me?
"Some sort of theological framework can justify our trust in meaning, in goodness, in reason." I suppose if you're going to posit societal needs out of wholecloth and the existence of evidence that doesn't look like evidence (and can increasingly be explained by neuroscience), then I guess you can offer religion (although it appears he's merely talking about Judeo-Christianity) as the panacea.
Just because some prominent atheists are assholes doesn't cause me to clutch at other people's subjective myths out of desperation.
(1) people saw this movie
(2) somebody is willing to write 1500 words about it
(3) people are writing letters on it, including me.
My first trepidation with Richard Kelly involved the "Director's Cut" of Donnie Darko: one of the only instances where the added footage and commentary almost made me hate the original theatrical release.
The Final Five thing makes no sense, neither do the command hallucinations, most of the dialogue is cringe-worthy (except when in the hands of the more experienced actors), and it blows its SFX budget in the first half of the season, leading to long, tedious stretches, and its metaphors for current events are about as ham-handed as a guy with two Honeybaked hams for hands.
But I'm looking forward to Season 4.
Can take a flying leap
... and then there's the tens of thousands of dead or severely wounded American soldiers, millions of dead or displaced Iraqi civilians, hundreds of billions of wasted dollars, plans for permanent bases and indefinite immunity for private contractor thugs. Gee whillikers, Wally, I sure don't know why they don't consider this misshapen imbecile to be a man of peace.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
