Archive for July, 2007

Things You Should Be Reading

Elsewhere.

Guilty Pleasure

If you haven’t seen Kanye West’s new video, you ought to. Having grown up in Indiana this is strangely familiar.

Whoops, I Forgot To Blog

Been kicking flu-like symptoms and working overtime, as well as dealing with some legal and personal issues at home. Back later.
In the meantime, check out some things you ought to be reading.

Dick Cheney Is Shifty and Politically Calculated

Junk that is conspicuous in the political sphere warrants commentary. A man speaking in front of the Senate or at a political lunch with an ex-President, unless he is utterly incompetent, has thought about how he wants his junk to appear. Visible junk doesn’t just happen. Nor do clingy pants. Every man who is competent […]

Friday Random Ten - The Free Downloads Edition

1) Princess Superstar - Sex, Drugs & Drugs
2) The Horrors - Jack the Ripper
3) Sufjan Stevens - I Can’t Even Lift My Head
4) Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline
5) Jens Lekman - F-Word
6) Echo & the Bunnymen - Silver
7) Lauren Hoffman - Another Song About the Darkness
8) Alicia […]

Heh


I Am So Sorry For This

Generally this kind of thing

That said,

One Nut Left

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one nut left, originally uploaded by Creek Running North.

Chris kindly offers this illustration to accompany this story.

Life as a Reader

I was going to write a post about how I was a really bad English major. I’m a reader, not a critic, pathetically subjective and skeptical of so-called objective criticisms. I love subjective writing and always looked for opportunities to inject my academic papers with arguments on its behalf. I was the […]

Leading The GOP Race: D) None of the Above

Despite the blabbering over whether Americans would vote in a Mormon president, whether a B-list actor on a crime show could be the next B-list Reagan, and whether McCain really looks gay in a knit pullover, a recent poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, […]

My Left Nut

My officemate, who has been enduring the longest, most immature break-up scenario one can imagine for several months, was recently accused by her ex of giving him some vague sexually transmitted disease. Freaked out and worried, she went to the doctor for a series of tests and came up with a clean bill of […]

Unicorn Kill

One more thing I will die for if I cannot obtain it. [via]