Archive for August, 2008
You Wish You Were Jack Kerouac
Posted in Dada, Paul, tagged climb a mountain, fucked, fucked up, I am you, i love lamp, jack kerouac, keep climbing, lamp, not there, nothing is real, we are all here, wish you were here, you are me, you wish, zen buddishm on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You Won’t Know …Why the hell Jesse Lacey threw his guitar
Posted in Music, Paul, tagged brand new, guitar toss, hitting drummers with guitars, jesse lacey, throws guitar on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently Jesse Lacey urged the audience to go see Explosions In The Sky instead of Brand New at a recent festival concert. When no one left he called those in attendance “a bunch of fools.” The next song he threw his guitar into the air, nearly hitting Brand New’s drummer before storming off stage. Jesse [...]
What if Tucker Max Lied?
Posted in Lit. Theory, Media coverage, tagged Gawker, Literary Fiction, Too Sick to be True, Tucker Max, Writing Mistruths on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to retract the invective I wrote about Gawker a few days back, but just for this post. Gawker’s Rumormonger has a lengthy thread on Tucker Max that holds a true literary gem: The more I thought about it, however, the more the fact that TM is basically lying in his stories began to [...]
Check out my Freedom Stick
Posted in Technology, tagged Beijing, Freedom Stick, Gizmodo, Olympics 2008, Tech, USB on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Gizmodo, comes news of this incredibly handy device, good now for the Olympics, good later for when an FCC-DHS hybrid takes over the tubez: If you’re reading this, odds are against your attendance at the Beijing Olympic Games, but we wanted to make sure that you knew about the Freedom Stick just in case—a [...]
More on Toby Keith’s Supposed Racism
Posted in Media coverage, Music, tagged Add new tag, Beer For My Horses, Country Music, Grand Ole Opry, Hanging, lynching, RACISM, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s been a lot of hubbub over Toby Keith’s country dumbness, but I thought I’d do my part to help set the record straight on Beer for my Horses: Blumenthal never mentions that Keith sings “Beer For My Horses” with Willie Nelson, and it’s actually Nelson who sings the supposedly incriminating lyrics (as you can [...]
Kwame the Krook
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big City crooks, Crimes abound, Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, Michigan on August 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am convinced that every big city in America is rotten to the core. And of course, Detroit’s the worst of them all: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the night in jail after a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a business trip to Canada [...]
‘One man’s TMI is another man’s JEI–just enough information’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Absurdism, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, I forgot my driving hat, I love my job, Sexual Adultery, tim and eric on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New Tim and Eric is out. Oh my sweet god is it strange.
To All the Dicks Who Called Me ‘Tugboat’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, Fat chix, get big, large life, Obesity, tugboat on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a blog out there for people who are (or at least want to be) okay with being fat: Weight itself is not a health problem, except in the most extreme cases (i.e., being underweight or so fat you’re immobilized). In fact, fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to [...]
Like Gawker Has Room to Talk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 18th Birthday, Billy Joel, Culture porn, Famous deaths, Happy Birthday, Jon Benet Ramsey, Murder Trial, Only the good die young, photoshop, Tasteless traffic, This makes me sad on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
VH1′s blog Scandalist posted a tacky/darkly funny photoshopped pic of Jon Benet Ramsey wearing a birthday hat, to commemorate what would today be her 18th b-day. (She would also be, as one of my meatspace colleagues pointed out to me, a hottie.) Gawker, among other places, threw a goddamn hissy fit. Which is ironic, considering [...]
White People Who Hate “Stuff White People Like”
Posted in Lit. Theory, Media coverage, tagged Adam Sternbergh, Arsenio Hall, Deflating Elf Pants, Hero Worship, Hot Hot Heat, Jews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, stuff white people like, The New Republic, White Hate on August 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The New Republic’s Adam Sternbergh, for starters: When black people dance, they dance like this. But when white people dance, they dance like this. You have now essentially experienced every episode of “The Arsenio Hall Show.” You have also now essentially read the entirety of Stuff White People Like, a comedic blog which may have [...]
Louisiana, up Close and Personal
Posted in Technology, Uncategorized, tagged George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People, google, Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West, Maps, Mike Meyers, New Orleans, NOLA, Street View on August 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Google’s Lat Long Blog announced today that it has expanded the number of places you can see using Street View to include New Orleans. This is very good news, as I have noticed a recent decline in depressing NOLA images. No New Orleans post would be complete without a Kanye refer:
“Just smoke two of these and call me in the morning”
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a chance encounter with an affluent man from Spanish Harlem, my personal perspective on the drug community is forever changed. Growing up in suburbia I am exposed to pharmacies and drug stores like Walgreens or CVS that sell cold remedies and doctor prescribed medications. This is my norm. However for this man, in [...]
Say Anything “Karaoke Night”
Posted in Music, Paul, tagged Alive With the Glory Of Love, Anberlin, Belt, Every Man Has a Molly, every time i die, karaoke, Karaoke Night, Motion City Soundtrack, Norma Jean, Relient k, say anything, The Bled, The Color Fred, The Futile, warped tour, Wow I Can Get Sexual Too on August 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Say Anything Karaoke Posted on 08/04/08 by Joe DeAndrea At the Chicago stop of Warped Tour, Max Bemis of Say Anything was sick and unable to sing so instead of canceling, they had some of their friends help out on vocals. Set list was as follows: Setlist: Alive With the Glory Of Love (Justin from [...]
