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Our Dogs Bark
I’m visiting New York. We finally get a seat on the express train. Headed back to Brooklyn now for some Pzizz naps before dinner.
My National Leadership Award
Due, I have no doubt, to my total awesomeness, this morning I was awarded the honor of being an Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council. This dubious distinction has been annointed upon me by the National Republican Congressional Committee and my local congressman Tom Cole. How fucking awesome am I?Oh, wait. Tom Cole is actually a Republican Congressman from the 4th district of Oklahoma (where I’ve never felt welcome, I might add). Also, when you call, they play a pre-recorded message from good old Tommy Boy, and then proceed to solicit a $500 “donation”. Upon some diligent Googling, I also discovered others who have received similar calls. Anyway, the upside is that they offered a gavel and a framed certificate…which I gladly accepted. Who the heck wouldn’t want a gavel?!
ShareCatholics are supposed to be less crazy
Thanks largely to George W. Bush, lately, we’ve had the luxury of reserving most of our ire for evengelicals in America. Sure, there’s a taste of crazy on every spiritual doorstep, but when we have to start interpreting government policies through a lense which includes “the rapture”, then clearly your esteemed brand of crazy deserves special attention. Of course, then, it is only at this moment that the pope comes out with a friendly reminder that “hell is a real place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful”.
We have nothing more to say on this subject today except maybe you should go read some Sam Harris and leave us a comment.
Sharefeeling kinda gassy?
Of course we’re totally bi-coastal around this site, but since one of those coasts requires copious amounts of driving, we thought we’d ask the question: Is one brand of gasoline better than another?
Now leave us a friendly comment and tell us how totally environmentally awesome you think you are. Also, it’s birthday season, so a “happy, happy” wouldn’t kill you.
Shareblog-a-ganza
Anyone who reads this site knows we’ve been conducting ourselves as if we were blogging for more than 10 years. That said, now that someone invented the actual word “blog”, things seem to have changed on the internet. Sure, the word kinda sounds like bad news during a lengthy bowel movement, but we’re not here to criticize information age nomenclature, we’re here to be joiners.
Soooooo….you’ll notice we’re up and running with WordPress, and we’ve got a fully functional comment system, so while we’ll continue with the same liberally slanted addresses, you can now weigh in with your own opinions. As for the rest of the site, all is as it has been and likely always will be, so please enjoy. Now go ahead, tell your friends!
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Vincent Moon and Arcade Fire Walk Into An Elevator….“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”
Water Water Everywhere…. “Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists. I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]
So, This Stephen Malkmus-looking Guy Who Went to High School with My Boss Wrote a Children’s BookA man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]
Matilde UrrutiaIt isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]
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Modest Mouse Secret Show Tonight at 1 AM in Williamsburg“Now they suck and don’t play enough older songs….”
Stoker vs. Stroker“I don’t need to be sitting around all day thinking about Burt Reynolds.”
20 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon FootprintWe’ve heard way too much lately about the seemingly insurmountable environmental problems to which we all contribute every day. It’s enough to make you downright defeatist. It’s enough to make you think we’re all just fucked and there’s nothing to be done. All we can say is that the more we hear about all of [...]
Fried Pork ChopsI try to picture him in Prague, Though I’ve never been there And am not 100 percent sure he has either. I piece together a composite Prague for him To wander in, from random sooty black and white Snapshots, and film stock laced with jumpy lines. I see no future here, only heartache and loss, [...]
Lost KittyAwww. It looks like the inset picture shows “Roscoe” and his bow-legs under a blankie! LOST CAT LARGE, LONG, BLACK CAT, SMALL TUFT OF WHITE FUR ON HIS CHEST MIGHT ANSWER TO ROD OR ROSCOE THIN TAIL, KIND OF BOW-LEGGED, SHINY COAT, FRIENDLY MALE, NEUTERED, 2 YEARS OLD LAST SEEN NEAR THE CORNER OF BEDFORD [...]
