April 2009
45 posts
Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary Blues
This...
March 2009
37 posts
kapi:
O Valenica! - The Decemberists
One of my...
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
Van Morrison- Moondance
...
Just got back from the dentist
I haven’t been in about a decade, but no cavities. This calls for some butterscotch chicken to celebrate.
“It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up.”
– William Somerset Maugham (via reluctantbuddha)
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– Kung Fu Monkey: Ephemera 2009 (7) (via Daily Kos) (via moltz)
I was once told the two easy steps to being a libertarian:
Deny there’s a social cost to anything
There is no step 2
Athenrye - My Little Armalite
And of course you...
The Clancy Brother - Whack Fol the Diddle (God...
The Clancy Brothers - Kevin Barry
History is...
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Oro Se Do...
Kelli Rae Powell - Magical Mystical Thing
Love...
Why the grieving should read Hamlet. (4) - By... →
I think that this may be why Hamlet has always been my favorite Shakespeare play. Thinking back, I first read it right around the time my grandmother died. I’ve never thought about exactly why the character resonated with me so much, but O’Rourke’s take makes lots of sense to me.
Is anyone surprised? Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston... →
chuckmore:
soupsoup:caro:
“Levi tries to visit Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible for him. She tells him he can’t take the baby to our house because she doesn’t want him around ‘white trash.’ She treats him so badly!”
Can I just say that Ol’ Levi here dodged a pretty significant bullet here? If McCain & Palin had won he’d be marching down the aisle...
ProTip: if you write a phrase in your dissertation that makes you think of the Simpson’s line “It’s a widely believed fact” then you probably ought to go back and revise it. Whoever you are.
This routine is so over done, right? Well, I was...
Obligatory Watchmen Review
Writing one of these without seeming like a cheerleader or a whiny ass titty baby is tough, so I’ll start with this: I liked the movie quite a bit, the story is engrossing and detailed (although necessarily not as much as the graphic novel). I tend to agree that Snyder was over-attached to the source material and it might’ve been nice to see what a little re-imagining could’ve...
“A Canadian man got a faceful of pepper spray at the Pacific Highway border...”
– Bellingham, Whatcom County Local News | Bellingham Herald
I’ll show you courtesy! (via jamiek)
The border patrol guards are so fucking wacko - they aren’t fit to be real police, but they get to dress like real police, so they’re mostly happy. I once had a guard in Detroit search my...
Graduate School For The Unemployed? →
whatson:
johncarney:
Education is overrated by the educated. Don’t do it.
You see this kind of article any time the job market gets soft, and there’s definitely some merit to the argument. If you don’t know what you want to do, going to graduate school not only isn’t going to fix that, it may well exacerbate it. That said, the tone of the article (and the blog post that...
“Jessie Carvalho, 19, who was dressed as the mascot, told police that while he...”
– SouthCoastToday.com: Man admits attacking Chuck E. Cheese mascot
True story: reagank spent about two years working at Chuck E. Cheese, occasionally playing the rat—er mouse.
I don’t know that he was ever attacked while wearing the suit, though. (via jamiek)
I did work at Chuck E. Cheese for...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
Bon Iver (10)
Kings of Leon (9)
Fleet Foxes (5)
Chicago Public Radio (3)
Joy Division (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Median Home Price in Detroit = $7,500 →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
kayfabe:
On a positive note, Detroit’s homicide rate dropped 14 percent last year. That prompted mayoral candidate Stanley Christmas to tell the Detroit News recently, “I don’t mean to be sarcastic, but there just isn’t anyone left to kill.”
(via markn:alibosworth)
It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
Despite all this, there are 15 people in Tuesday’s primary....