December 2008
22 posts
Dad monologues: On Cows
Dad: Cows are very sensitive animals. They have a lot of feelings. Why do all these people go 1000 miles just to save dogs but not cows? They're the same animal! In fact, their brains are bigger than dogs. You know, I AM a cow!
In Vegas: We pulled into Terrible's Hotel and...
Dad: [to cashier lady] Is this buffet terrible?
Cashier lady: Yes, this is Terrible's!
Dad: This is a terrible buffet?
Cashier lady: [half exasperated, half bemused] Yes, yes, everything here is terrible! It's ALL terrible!
We went to Terrible's to have brunch instead of the legendary Wynn. I'm convinced it was entirely so that Dad could continuously make jokes about our meal being "terrible" for the next hour.
Andrew Bird's latest album, Noble Beast →
Release date is in January, 2009.
Andrew Bird does it again, if “it” is mind-bending lyrics nestled in harmonies that both soar and comfort. It should suffice to say that I love Andrew Bird, and would love to share his music with you.
He comes to Boston on January 30th (The Orpheum) and San Francisco on February 19th (The Fillmore) if you would like to see him live — an...
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“You” by Atmosphere, from “When...
“God, I miss the Cold War. It was so much more fun than this one.”
– Christopher Buckley again, on “My Brush with Obama’s Top Spook”
Chris Buckley on body language →
Christopher Buckley at his silliest, observing “Obama’s Akward Group Photo”:
“Obama’s staff is in full genital protection mode.”
“There were some interesting photo ops last week. ‘Photo op’ is, of course, the snappy abbreviation for ‘photo opportunity, a late 20th-century coinage and one of the more curious phrases in the American...
Jimmy Eat World - Drugs or Me
The perfect song...
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Frost/Nixon →
I want to watch this. It’s worth seeing the trailer in high quality, so click on through.
“The sex symbol for every man who reads without moving his lips.”
– Tina Fey, according to New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter. My permanent woman crush is this month’s cover story for Vanity Fair! Hallelujah. Read the article on the pop comedy demigod here.
“My kind of woman! Nice and easy. …Your order, I mean.”
– The Stata Center deli guy, to me. About my sandwich. I think.
Make awkward advances to women, not war!
(via kambr)
Hmmm. Lay off my sister, okay, sandwich guy?
