In today's news, America's poorest public institution just got thrown a small lifeline. They are hoping this bridge funding will allow them to continue offering services until more permanent financing can be secured. Wish them luck!
I'm sure the label will attempt some sort of differentiation, but I mean really. This is just shameless. Amy Winehouse must be rolling in her grave right now. Wait, what? She's still alive? Well in that case, can she please beat up this Duffy character? Thanx.
Please, I beg of you. I've asked nicely. I've asked bitterly. I've asked every way I know how. Enough with the feyness! Really! No more sparrows, no more baby deer, no more owls, no more squiggly line drawings, no more silk-screened milk bottles. Can we please be adults now?
My sister, the proprietrix of Catbaret (the premier cat-related website on the Internest), has been on the Miranda July backlash forever, with a pure virulence that makes my dislike seem downright cordial. Wednesday's video post has fueled the flames mightily, and inspired a true masterstroke of genius, withering commentary. Witness--Catbaret's YouTube Response!
As someone who edits video for a living, I can objectively state, with certainty, that this is the finest instance of editing in the history of moving pictures. So you should watch it! And visit Catbaret!
Have you ever noticed how no one tells jokes anymore? Like, ya know, jokey-jokes with a wind-up and a punchline and all of that? Ever wonder where they all went, those old jokes of yore?
Well, I found them. Go on, try a few! You might even want to memorize one or two to tell at parties and events. You'll be the CENTER OF ATTENTION with your hysterical knee-slapping laffers! Yessss!
My petty, trifling prayers have been answered! See, I had grown bored after years and years of the same old Dr. Bronner fandango. With each passing bottle, the choice between Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Almond, and Lavender (boo on Tea Tree and, um, unscented? As if.) grew increasingly meaningless, as the initial thrill has long passed into memory, succeeded by a longing for newness and radicality. I know I'm not alone in this because once at a La Monte Young Dream House installation, I used the bathroom and lining the sink were small bottles with taped-on labels describing the relative mixtures of Dr. Bronner's Peppermint, Eucalyptus, and Almond in each. Crazy! Kind of like the installation! Ahh, West Coast minimalism.
But I digress! Dr. Bronner's has just released TWO NEW SCENTS FOR THE LIQUID SOAP! Rose and Citrus! Spring has sprung!
n.b.: if you don't already know about and use Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap, you are insane and Hate Our Mother Earth. Get thee to a Dr. Bronnery and pick up a bottle or five.
This is a picture of a cheese affectionately called "The Devil's Suppository." You can order it here.
Thanks for this, Engadget! I just hope that this doesn't turn out to be another McCain Girls style letdown.
UPDATE: A hoax! Is nothing sacred? Can't I enjoy my YouTubes in peace without the sinking feeling that I've been pandered to??? Video is now after the jump, to hide its shame.
you'll LOVE him in Band of Outsiders! Why, it's John Dewis!
There are so many, many ire-raising things about this video. Miranda July, please, please, please go away. Despite the fact that I own (and have read) your book and own (and have watched) your terrible movie and have seen (and do not own) Nest of Tens, I NEVER LIKED YOU NOT EVEN A LITTLE. Feyness is over, mmkay? Oh, also this makes me like a band I previously lurved a little tiny bit less. Just sayin'.
Just say NO to adults! And by adults I mean conservatives.
So, according to this old Communist pinko propaganda film put out by the arm of the Politburo also know as the "Encyclopaedia Brittanica," the increasing concentration of power, money, land, and influence makes societies more prone to despotism! EVEN IF THE SOCIETY IS THE AMERICAN STATES OF AMERICA.
I hope McCarthy threw them in jail forever and waterboarded them maybe and then put a gag order on their nonsense for ever and ever! In any case, for the sake of historical understanding, here's the evil video in question. You can even take the quiz to see if YOUR COUNTRY is sliding toward despotism! As if!
Milford, you really need to get it together. Raw sewage is supposed to NOT go on the streets and in the rivers, not the other way 'round!
Perhaps it's time to look into the Envirolet! No sewage hookup necessary! Microbes eat it all up! To them it's tasty.
Then you are going to LURV Mapping America, the Family Research Council's latest weekly web-chart series, which will show us how non-gay church-attending families are "the greatest generator of human and social capital." This will be illustrated IN CHARTS! Who doesn't love a chart? And who doesn't love human and social capital? This is a win-win situation. Unless you are gay, in which case maybe it's sort of not. But then again, who's really gay? No one, duh!
Should you like to celebrate Mapping America more formally, and you find yourself in the Washington D.C. area, you should definitely répondez for their fun party, celebrating web-charts, families, religion, non-gayness, and all sorts of other scrumptiously scrupulous stuff! Here are the deets! CHARTS CHARTS CHARTS!
When: Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:30 pm
Where: Family Research Council
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
RSVP: 1-800-225-4008
*Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Business attire is preferred
St. Patrick's Day approaches, and you know what that means! No, not vomiting drunkards clogging the subways with menacing, slurred epithets, silly! It's time for the United States Geological Survey's March Science Picks!!!!!! Huzzah!
You're probably getting tired of my USGS posts, but I don't care! I mean, who else can couch scientific research on global warming in terms of ravaging carpets of clover decimating non-indigenous biomes so hilariously!
The Grey Lady has finally "found her voice" in the ongoing slugfest that is the primary race between Old Media and New Media! Her campaign has gone negative, and it may change the face of the race for good! But is it too late to matter?
In a gambit of thrilling uppitiness, the lead article in the Sunday Styles covers the Washington D.C. phenomenon of "blogger houses." Now, I'm not convinced these so-called "blogger houses" exist, but negative campaigning isn't always about what's necessarily "true." By placing an article about schlumpy, self-absorbed D.C. wonks in a section meant to highlight attractive people and their expensive clothing and accessorizing habits, the NYT has shone the light on the REAL DARK SECRET on this insurgency known as "the blogosphere." See, this "blogosphere" may be a Change from the old media that has reigned supreme for four hundred thousand years, but is it really Change You Can Believe In? Is it Ready To Govern on Day One? Do you really want to trust your news to young fatties with laptops sitting in comfy chairs in depressing houses? Or would you rather trust your news to middle-aged fatties with desktops sitting in uncomfy chairs in Renzo Piano buildings in midtown? An example:
"I usually prefer the blue chair," Mr. Yglesias said, describing where he likes to work when he's not at his office or a local coffee shop.
"I prefer posting up on the yellow couch," said Kriston Capps, 28, a Flophouse resident and freelance art critic who keeps a personal blog and until recently also blogged for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Well played, NYT. Count this delegate IN PLAY.
Enough of the politics! I'm moving to McDonaldland, where Ron Paul guards the Golden Arches (get it? TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO) and Dennis Kucinich is in charge of Public Works and Rudy Giuliani puts all the Hamburglars in McGuantanamo.
Then I could just post a picture and people would look at it! Or not! But since this is a REAL blog, I have to say some words to accompany the picture. So, here's the explanation of the picture:
I went to this secluded, phone and data receptionless log cabin in upstate New York this weekend, solely to escape the CRUSHING PRIMARY FATIGUE. It's gotten to be too much, this primaries thing. Honestly, can we talk about the weather, or the crappy subway system, or food, or cats?
No? You really want to keep talking about current events? OK, then. Here goes:
Alligator Eating Snakes Are Taking Over America.
Happy now?
You know, from time to time I do grow weary of my weekly reading list. From The Economist to The New Yorker, from Wonkette to the HuffPo, it's all just...so...normal. That's when the New American, the magazine and internest website of the John Birch Society, steps into my RSS reader, and my life, with a breath of fresh crazy to invigorate and baffle!
From the impending North American Union (where Mexikans and Kanadians get to tell us how to live our lives through a diktat of regulations and fluoridated mind control) to the needless bodies of world government like the UN and NATO (damn that NATO!), The New American always provides me with fascinating commentary about the New World Order plots that surround America and threaten to stampede her liberties! There's so much to be afraid about!
So, if you want to hear the real scoop on the jackbooted thugs of the Rapeublican and Killocrat parties, and their conniving world governmentalist plots to steal our energy, guns, meth, and freedoms, then head here!
Ulrike and I are trying to decide what to drink tonight. While it is
true that Campari is Change You Can Believe In, I think that Scotch is
Ready To Govern On Day 1. Choices, choices!
It's true. Huckabee voters are WAY more likely to be dead-again
Christians than McCain supporters, who are overwhelmingly supportive
of athiesm or, alternatively, Sharia law. CNN says so! Super Saturday!!
You know, as an entrepreneur, I'm always asking myself, "Why isn't there a party that really speaks for my people? That voices my concerns? That really values my identity politics? Why does my voice, and the voice of thousands of others like me, go unheard?" Well my friends (sorry to borrow the phrase, Republicrat John McCain, but I really am addressing my friends at the moment), our party has arrived!
Behold: THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PARTY! The little sponsored ads in my Gmail told me about this party, no doubt to the high frequency of the word "entrepreneur" in my entrepreneurial inbox. As the party says "The E Is For You and Me!" It IS! There are so many, many other wonderful Beginning Of Each Word Capitalized party platforms in the Entrepreneurship Party, such as:
Yes! So many things to think about! Finally, a party for the rest of us! Let's all take some time to think about what we want our lives to stand for, and strive to create value for everyone in our lives! E is for Everyone!
The US Geological Survey released wonderful news which is likely to convince everyone that there is no recession and America is entering an amazing Golden Age of Prosperity! That's right, the value of America's mineral production rose in 2007!!!!!!! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I've always said that the fortune of this country will rise and fall on the IMPORTANT stuff like gypsum, industrial sand and gravel, soda ash, dimension stone, and zinc. And by those metrics, the American economy has experienced MILD GROWTH! Take that, Euro zone!
