June 2008
21 posts
George Carlin: On Commenting
“‘No comment’ is a comment.”
George Carlin: On Self
“I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.”
George Carlin: On War
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
George Carlin: On Language
“There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. ‘All of you words over here, you seven…baaaad words.’ That’s what they told us, right? … You know the seven, don’t ya? That you can’t say on TV?...
George Carlin: On People
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin: On Employment
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ‘You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.’”
George Carlin: On Bullshit
“When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion.
No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches...
TODAY IS OFFICIALLY GEORGE CARLIN AWESOME QUOTE...
“If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.”
Al Gore To Endorse Obama
He told me so!
Dear Kaila, A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama. From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States. Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges — including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our...
My heterosexual life partner went to that panel where they attempted to explore this internet business in good old fashioned literary real time.
theradicalartisan:
So I went to this n+1 thing last night, The Internet: We All Live There Now. Pretty good discussion, but unfortunately it was mostly the literary academic community licking their wounds at even having to address the internet.
Moe...
kaila: BEHOLD AND MEET YOUR GOD
IT IS A SHINY GOD
AND WILL LOVE YOU AS YOU LOVE IT
live.gizmodo.com
rebecca: Well, as long as it's shiny
Fun With Family Values
“But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
…When McCain –...
Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama
nickmcglynn:
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president.
Source: Yahoo! News
Unfortunately, the AP jumped the gun on this one. She’s not fucking going anywhere, ever. Ever.
I’m so very glad...
May 2008
38 posts
I Buy Dusty Old History Books To Save Them From...
“One may think as he pleases here, and so long as he observes the ordinary rules of decent living he will retain his place in society. Christian, Jew, Turk, Heathen, all mingle together in pleasant social intercourse, careless of each other’s opinions, and taking each other for just what the individual man is worth. And so it is in politics. The most decided political antagonists may...
A Riddle Wrapped In A Magazine Inside An Enigma
I decided to pick up the Times on my way home — I sort of wanted to see the magazine in the flesh, to thumb its old fashioned pages by candlelight. I bought a copy of the paper at the corner store, but there was was no magazine in its gray voluminous folds. Back at the store, the seller was apologetic — none of the other papers there contained magazines, either. We checked. Walked...
“…we always kill the guys who try and help us. Isn’t that strange, that we let the little demons run amok, always? John Lennon: murdered. John Kennedy: murdered. Martin Luther King: murdered. Gandhi: murdered. Jesus: murdered. Reagan…wounded. You know. Bad fucking choice.” “But it doesn’t matter because: it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want....
Rejected Commenter #909824368491 Has Not Been To...
Re: Future First Ladies Should Be Judged Solely On Fashion I am a life-long Democrat, voted for Obama in the primary, and will vote Dem in the general. However, I think Cindy McCain is pretty hot. I’d like to invite her to play house. She could be the screen door, and I’d slam her all night long. :))
Newly Approved Commenter
Re: Cash-Waving Craisglist Player’s Fury:’These Photos Are Mines’ What if the idiosyncrasies of language lead us to the idiocy of mistranslated good will? What if “Man, that earthquake was a real bitch.” translates to “Hillary Clinton just sat on your head.”?
Rejected Commenter #5098273642849
Re: Comments Closed On Emily Gould’s Times Piece “generating a lot of noise is a journalistic end unto itself” - no it’s not; in a democracy the media is the 4th power. had u lived in an authoritarian regime, articles like hers is all u would read in the newspapers. the NYT has a responsibility and the noise emily gould’s article has created has to do w/ how the...
Intern Kaila tumbls!
alexbalk: I command you all to follow. It’s a comfort, knowing that when we meet at the lung cancer support group in fifty years’ time, bent with age, cursing misspent cigarettes, the even-huskier voice of Alex Balk will still greet me as “Intern Kaila.”
Everyone’s favorite topics — internet morality, money, and the “overshare” — have coalesced today to vault cash-flashing Craigslist dude into the new media stratosphere of temporary misguided celebrity. I await his future appearance on Dr. Phil, but I fear for us all, at mercy to the copycatters I know are right now planning how to best recapture the original...
With Love and Bloggeur
I’m going to go ahead an invalidate my English degree here when I say I haven’t read all of my required J.D. Salinger. Catcher In The Rye, sure, and I know all about your bananafish. But Salinger in my mind always came back to an anecdote told by my favorite writing professor in college: how the notorious recluse made no exceptions for interviews or media — save for the...
“‘The only way to lose this fight is to quit. That would be...”
– from “Cheney to coast guard grads: War On Terror Won’t Go On Forever…” “So,” he went on, hitchin’ up his belt and testin’ his new shiny spurs, “Try our method. Screw everybody, but be sure to do it when you can pass the buck to the next guy....
Remixed NYC Subway Posters
Some people are much more creative and have even more time on their hands than I do. More sheer awesomeness via next thing
BBC 'Cheekily Unsubtle'
Church Smoke Is Good For Your Brain
Holy shit. Scientists running tests on mice, as they are wont to do, have discovered that incensole acetate — better known as frankincense — has psychoactive qualities. The fragrant resin works on areas of the brain to alleviate anxiety and affect emotions in ways only beginning to be explored. Frankincense is still used in incense and perfumes, and is famed for being one of the Three...
International Art
These signs were on display the Statens Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark last summer. I’ve long wanted a place to put them that wasn’t a Facebook album. Thanks for being slightly less like middle school, tumblr! Talk amongst yourselves, I’ll give you a topic:
But Will They Love TheKnot.Com Equally?
Thanks to California’s exemplary embrace of the 21st century, famous gay people have begun announcing intentions to join their straight brethren in that universally acknowledged state of bliss, marriage. Right out of the gate, Ellen DeGeneres moved to secure Portia DeRossi in rightful matrimony, and who wouldn’t? Justin Timberlake is set to sing at their wedding. Britney Spears will...
Now You Know You Need It
Sometimes I get frustrated that we’ve been unable to upgrade certain technology, even after centuries of experimentation and advancement. The umbrella is one such timeless object. How long has that basic concept been around? We’ve made them tiny, we’ve given them plastic shields, but essentially they remain cloth spread on a stick, and our feet still get wet. The umbrella is...
“[Warren] Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to...”
– via Yahoo, “US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president”
Awkwardly Interracial Jesus Will Save Us All
via reddit :: via offbeat earth
