January 2009
48 posts
Review: last year's New Year's Eve celebration
My brother and his partner came over for dinner. The four of us drank two bottles of wine, watched an episode and a half of “A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila”, and fell asleep on the couch around 11:30.
Grade: A
2008: Year in Review
Soul-annihilating.
Only one more year to go before we are done with this brutal nightmare of a decade.
December 2008
48 posts
“I PROPOSE AND CHALLENGE EACH AND EVERY COWBOYS FAN TO BOYCOTT ANY AND ALL GAMES...”
– Comment by FED UP COWBOYS FAN, cowboysblog.dallasnews.com
This Cowboys offseason is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
“The closet behind me is filled from bottom to top with TSR era riches, classic...”
– Penny Arcade! - And So It Begins, Part One
“Me: What’s this about Greece?
Him: It’s about the killing of Alexis...”
– Wells Fargo Bears Brunt of Mysterious Protest « Mission Mission
Happiness is the Raiders game being blacked out on...
Why MLM Will Kill Twitter (hint: because they have... →
Some thoughts from Karl Long of tcritic
ESPN can have rules, edge →
There are many days when Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber writes the only interesting thing on ESPN.com.
“Is it just me, or do all national anthems the world over, no matter how rich and...”
– The Explainer questions we never answered in 2008. - Slate
Media Matters - What was the Most Inane Punditry... →
Missing from this list: absolutely everyone repeatedly trolled by a fictional McCain advisor.
Two fourth graders walk up to me
One asks, “Do you like Winnie the Pooh?”
“Yes.”
“Good,” she says. “People who don’t like Winnie the Pooh are weirdos.”
She turns to the child seated next to me. “Do you like Winnie the Pooh?”
Richard Dawkins loses his mind →
“why do nerds even think that anyone with half a brain would think that weak...”
– Amazon.com: take all of this weak pop and emo and nerd and art crap off of the punk rock listings and let real punk rock rest with what respect it stil has - pop Discussion Forum
“ESPN.com football writer Mark Schlabach told “Outside The Lines”...”
– Deadspin
“The following scenes were cut from the mainland China version : 1) Wong...”
– Lust, Caution (film) - Wikipedia
One of these changes is not like the others.
“MY GOD!!!! I was in Aruba once, could it be possible I did this??? And I know I...”
– oh oh - what does this mean? « GretaWire (via wonkette)
trainwrecks:
fusioned:
baitandswitch:
...
“After meeting with a lawyer for a teachers’ pension plan on another matter and...”
– Lawyer Charged With Huge Fraud Is Denied Bail - NYTimes.com
I’m pretty sure that was also the plot of the episode of “Leverage” I sat through on Tuesday.
“New York state is like an ocean liner that has collided with a massive iceberg....”
– Gov. David Paterson: NEW YORK NEEDS TO BITE THE BULLET - New York Post Editorial
Holy smokes.
Signs you are a yuppie
You go to Ritual and run into real estate agents that you know.
60 Noses →
SOS
There is a game they play called SOS. The 4th-graders are particularly fond of it. It’s generally a two-player game, but I’ve seen it done with three or four. Here is how to play:
Find a whiteboard or other large, vertical surface to draw on.
Draw a grid.
On your turn, write either “S” or “O” in any square.
After taking your turn, draw a line through any...
Faced By Roger Ebert →
(via goldenfiddle)
Skeet On Shenae - The Skeet On...Empire Actually... →
Reblogging something this long just isn’t right. But no year is complete without the Skeet On… Actually Interesting list.
Lucky in Love's Activity →
Clearly a troll, but on whose agenda? Is this some dumb viral thing?
FORSOOTH! A COLOR TELEVISION AND DVD PLAYER! FOR... →
drned:
does anybody want to buy my old tv?
What’s going on with the table? Are you expecting a shootout?
Chasing Jose
Will Leitch, in his weekly football roundup, mentioned a Deadspin piece that Pat Jordan wrote about Jose Canseco back in March called “Chasing Jose”, describing it as “a story that led to Canseco firing his lawyer.”
If you, like me two days ago, have never read the piece, here is the only advice I can offer: Go. Go and read it now. It’s one of the most vicious...
The Laboratorium: Change.gov Is Under a Creative... →
“But the real story of this puzzle is the Bizarro fill, esp. in the N by NW...”
– Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SUNDAY, Nov. 30, 2008 - Richard Silvestri (“Also Sprach Zarathustra” hitmaker, 1973 / Herringlike fish / Darius the Scamp? / Endor inhabitants)
We suffered through this one on the plane, and it was a generally awful affair. I did know...