January 2008
14 posts
Mostly I'm just sickened by the velocity of the...
Makes the whole Christians to the lions thing seem pure, you know?
Schmoscars
Does this mean I have to watch Michael Clayton now? Whatever.
WatchIt’s funny because it’s true.
It's on.
For a brief, hopeful moment, I thought the filmmakers might be making a point about how the contemporary compulsion to record the world has dulled us to actual lived experience, including the suffering of others — you know, something about the simulacrum syndrome in the post-Godzilla age at the intersection of the camera eye with the narcissistic “I.” Certainly this straw-grasping seemed the most...
Oh, yeah
Fuck Sundance. There, I said it.
It's snowing
So now it’s Southerners driving in the snow and Chuckabee tomorrow. End Times, people.
Eats, shoots, and leaves
So an incredibly tall thin kid wearing a top coat and radiating the nervous energy of Ian Curtis on the verge of an epileptic fit just came to my office door. He asked if I was on the English faculty, and when I said I was, proceeded to thrust a copy of Kingsley Amis’s “The King’s English” in my face and ask me what he meant by hyper-urbanisms. Yikes. And why is...
Now there's a title you want on a business card
QUOTATION OF THE DAY “When you buy a box of Cheerios in New York and one in Champaign, Illinois, you know they are going to be the same. By shortening the genetic pool using clones, you can do a similar thing.” JON FISHER, president and owner of Prairie State Semen in Illinois, after the F.D.A. declared cloned animals safe for the food supply.
Shortcut to feeling like a churl
Call up all those do-gooder organizations who bought Jonathan’s name and ask to be removed from their mailing lists. That’s right, NRDC, UNICEF, ASPCA, Human Rights Watch, MercyCorps, SmileTrain, March of Dimes, and Sesame Workshop Worldwide, stop sending us address labels already.
Which reminds me
When’s someone gonna launch tummlr? I thought the Jews pwned the media.
Denton can suck it
That big-headed fuck broke Facebook. Now what am I going to do to waste time? Oh, that’s right: tumble.
I get no kick from Champagne
Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of—ewwwww