January 2009
146 posts
“A hundred and fifty-five people wanted to go to Charlotte? Really?”
— Miles Kahn and Stuart Miller
“The moment I see a LOLcat shilling for J.C. Penney I am shooting myself in the...”
– The Daily What
Wilco, “Airline to Heaven” —...
Fleetwood Mac, “Albatross,” from The...
“On the bright side, anyone with a subscription to Mad will find that it now...”
– George Gene Gustines
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The Raconteurs, “Salute Your Solution”...
“Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial...”
– Charles Montgomery Burns
Curumin, “Compacto” — from...
So wait, do I get health care now? Is that the deal? No? Oh. That’s cool.
— tesslynch
“Now you might well ask why John Anderson, a respected critic, would walk up to...”
– Roger Ebert
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“Can we get a sponsor for the leak I’m about to... →
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Surf City, ” Headin’ Inside”...
“Hell, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ is practically a gateway drug in and...”
– Ed Murray
Aretha Franklin's Hat →
Inbox poetry
‘Yourth faithfully’ by ‘Alexa G.’
We hide because we want to be found, we walk away to see who will follow, we cry to see who will wipe away the tears, and we let our hearts get broken to see who will come and fix them.
Intelligent, educated, very attracted lady, who is in hopes finding a good man for a long term relationships.
I look a lot younger my years.
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Xiu Xiu, “Jennifer Lopez (The Sweet Science...
“A fairly standard apocalypse, as apocalypses go. Had to barricade myself in a used bookstore with a handful of other customers as they argued over what course of action to take. Stayed away from the drama myself. Found a cozy little corner and caught up on my reading until the National Guard arrived and decimated the undead hordes. It was all pretty much like you see in the movies, except...
“The 2009 Tournament of Books Zombie Poll is now open.”
– The Morning News
“I lived in at least ten different projects,” wrote RZA in The Wu-Tang Manual, “and I got to see that the projects are a science project in the same way that a prison is a science project. … And in comics, when a science project goes wrong, it produces monsters. Or superheroes.”
The spiritual journey of Ol’ Dirty Bastard
(thanks, tl!)
David Bowie, “White Light/White Heat”...
Spanning time. →
“It’s an open question whether he’s president until he takes the...”
– Jack Beermann
Bloxorz. →
Great game or greatest game?
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“Low point, among many: Jason Bateman promises to flush ‘only after a deuce, never a single.’ Is that really what Obama was talking about when he ‘summoned a new spirit’?”
— Ken Silverstein
Lowery showed how powerful and authentic a move it can be to forge a whole address around somebody else’s powerful text. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
The Secret Behind Lowery’s Awesome Benediction
“Apparently, perverse charisma is Michael Emerson’s calling.”
– Michael Alan Connelly
