July 2008
16 posts
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, Spooky, Scary.
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I am in a love banana sundae with 30 Rock.
Green Hills
Their green flanks and swells are not flesh in any sense matching ours, we tell ourselves. Nor their green breast nor their green shoulder nor the langour of their rolling over.
- From The Niagara River, by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan
"...he has no particular animus against hos."
Hilarious bit from East Bay Express’s culture expert, Rachel Swan, on local rapper Erk tha Jerk (her favorite artist dubbed ‘something-tha-something’):
“Erk specializes in sardonic material. His other big hit, rapped over a sample from soul band Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, is about resisting the vices and temptations to which other rappers succumb — most notably,...
Olympic Athletes Wearing Masks Could Cause China...
Headline of the day, from WSJ
“I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I...”
– Slate’s Bushism of the Day
“Does anyone have a crème brulee torch, and could I borrow it at some point...”
– A girl living at the MIT frat house my sister is staying at for the summer. Seriously??
“Pringles are not ‘potato crisps’”
– …Pringles, the popular snack food in a tube, are not potato crisps, a High Court judge has ruled.
This is my debut of ‘absurd headline of the day’ which will hopefully become a regular, perhaps even daily, feature of my tumblr. Click through to the actual BBC article here.
George Saunders is a funnybomber →
“I just had a great idea for a TV show: People from all over the world begin to sense they have superpowers. One guy can fly. Another can walk through walls. A cheerleader is impervious to physical harm. A kid can move back and forth in time. You get the idea: normal people, sick and tired of living under constraint, are busting out, into a world without limits!
But here’s the twist: These...
