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Sablesma: Proof that Lil Wayne was poorly educated →

zachfey: … Only valid if you can establish that being a woman is not a preexisting condition. Oh totally! But, I think, there are better options: did you know that he once stated that “I’m so motherfucking high I could eat a star?” He did! The education gaps in that lyric are much wider!… Sablesma gets most of it but there’s also the topic of relevance. Is thirdoption...

Mar 1st

Feb 5th

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →

Jan 29th

The Dangerous Message of Tim Tebow →

Craggs at his best. Money quote: Most everyone yammering about the commercial is asking the wrong questions. The real issue here has nothing to do with whether a famous football player should dive into such heated controversies; nor does it have anything to do with whether the Super Bowl is the proper platform from which to do so. (Please. The Super Bowl isn’t the proper platform for a lot...

Jan 29th

Jan 28th

For Esme, With Love and Squalor →

My favorite Salinger story, as it was originally published in the New Yorker. Twelve other stories published in the New Yorker are available online here.

Jan 28th

For Jerome, with love and squalor →

JD Salinger died today. (title borrowed from a friend’s facebook status)

Jan 28th

Jan 25th

Jan 5th

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Jan 4th

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My friend the President →

Glenn Greenwald, doing his job

Dec 13th

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Dec 7th

New David Foster Wallace Story →

“All That” This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten. such a shame there won’t be more of this. and another story here, from early 2007.

Dec 7th

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“I’m mad about being old, and I’m mad about being American. Apart from that, O.K.”

– Kurt vonnegut, on how he was doing from a 2003 interview. from the nytimes review of his new (old) story collection.

Nov 2nd

“Do you mean, Who can give the best speech? Who can raise the most money? Look,...”

– Gore Vidal, on who the best leader in the Democratic Party is right now. from the Atlantic. God also looks after old cranks with irrelpaceable wit, apparently - Vidal has lived quite the life.

Oct 29th

Oct 26th

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Oct 26th

Just woke in the middle of the night (so now a...

After a panicy dream that followed one in which I was part of a movie watching club with Steven Spielberg but that Steven Spielberg had once tried to get the same Steven Spielberg to watch Emprire of the Sun on DVD but Steven Spielberg said no and instead made us watch some movie about a custard-loving simpleton who was also a reluctant assassin. Dreams are fucked up sometimes. Anyway, I want to...

Oct 25th

"You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel" by Mark... →

An eloquent, contrarian take-down of the first season’s of tv’s most acclaimed show. I agree with it only sparingly and feel that it would would be different if it were written after the second season but it’s still a great critque - it made me watch the show differently and reconsider old episodes. spoiler alerts too, in case you haven’t seen it UPDATE: a similar...

Oct 25th

James Cameron profile in the New Yorker →

At one point, Landau asked if Jake’s avatar’s ears looked a touch too red in a closeup shot. “When you direct your movie with nine-foot-tall blue people, you can do whatever you want,” Cameron said. “The ears are red when they’re backlit. That’s how they look.” “Agreed,” Landau said cheerfully. He seemed used to it. The meeting ended on a boisterous note. “That fuckin’ rocks!” Cameron called...

Oct 25th

Now let us compare our news sources

“Beyond the politics is the war itself. The Taliban, feeding off the widespread discontent with Mr. Karzai’s government, is now stronger than they have been at any point since 2001. American soldiers and marines are dying at a faster rate than ever before. The ability of the Afghan state to govern — to keep order, to build roads, to deliver basic services — is virtually nonexistent...

Oct 25th

Fantasy Basketball

About to embark on my first season. If it’s anything like my first fantasy football season it will be a disaster. During that expedition I drafted a qb first, a wr second and, if i remember right, a defense third. Needless to say I lost. My dream fantasy roster so far is: Delonte West Michael Beasley Stephen Jackson Stephon Marbury Ron Artest With a line-up like that, what could...

Oct 25th

Victory Lap by George Saunders →

So if you’ve never read George Saunders before, you should start now. All three of his short story collections are as good as contemporary fiction gets and his collection of essays, The Braindead Megaphone is excellent as well. Buy one, or all four.

Oct 25th

Tennessee Titans Fans Looking Forward To Bye Week →

sablesma: Sometimes The Onion hits oh-so-close-to-home. The 2k9 Titans massive and historic failure of a season has been such a blessing. So many dashed hopes, so much ammunition for quality fantasy football shit talking.

Oct 25th

I'm back

After a three or four month hiatus I’m back. I don’t know about you but I’m fucking excited to be wasting time on the internet again.

Oct 25th

Sep 6th

Aug 27th

Destroyer "Bay of Pigs" →

Destroyer is almost always amazing but here Mr. Bejar outdoes himself.

Aug 27th

My car's airbags might kill me →

“In some vehicles, airbag inflators can produce over-pressurization of the driver’s [front] airbag inflator mechanism during airbag deployment,” the release said. “If an affected inflator deploys, the increased internal pressure may cause the inflator casing to rupture. Metal fragments could pass through the cloth airbag cushion material, possibly causing an injury or...

Jul 31st

“And Red Sox Nation is just another group of shitheads wearing pink hats. Keep...”

– Drew Magary on David Ortiz, steroids and Red Sox fans. This isn’t even from that funny of a post. But I thought the above quote was important anyway. On a related note, my dislike for Red Sox fans is borderline childish.

Jul 31st

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Behind the scenes look at ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ with Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze and a few others

Jul 31st

The Rise and Fall of Mike Jones →

via Idolator

Jul 30th

“I think you clean up the game by the testing. I test you, you test positive,...”

– David Ortiz, February 2009 (via sportscentr) That warm feeling? That’s schadenfreude, baby. I don’t even like baseball, but god I loathe the Red Sox. Oh, the lollerskates. They overwhelm me. Well, I love baseball but these past eleven years have already been tainted beyond repair; what makes...

Jul 30th

If David Foster Wallace loved guns and prostitutes... →

Jul 29th

“So, since the president is keen on offering instruction, here is what I would...”

– - anonymous LAPD office, clearly one of LA’s finest National Review via TNC This just about sums up why people distrust cops. TNC adds: “A lot of police want the right to carry a gun, and they want to be empowered by the state to arrest and kill. But they also want to pawn off as much...

Jul 29th

New Yorker profile of Michael Savage

So there’s no link at newyorker.com but it’s worth the cost or the 20 minutes it takes to read at Barnes and Noble. For those of you unfamiliar with the man, Savage is the host of one of the most popular conservative talk radio shows in the country. He has 8 million weekly listeners, often obscene political and cultural views (he was fired from MSNBC for telling a gay caller to...

Jul 29th

“I’m thirsty. May I have a glass of oil?”

– The Terminator from my new book, “Quotes That I Thought Were in the Movie, but Weren’t.” (via tomoatmeal)

Jul 27th

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