December 2009
November 2009
“I am very concerned about serious journalism, we damn well better get with it.”
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- Jim Lehrer, one of the few adults left in TV news:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902725.html
Stolen E-Mails Raise Questions On Climate Research : NPR →
npr.org
And the frustrating part is that we the public are starving for some Hansen-like ideas that are critical of the consensus view.
St. Peter's Day Festival
Ra Ra Riot
Fall Music Series (2008)
SONG OF THE DAY
Ra Ra Riot
“St. Peter’s Day Festival”
from the 2008 album The Rhumb Line
Brain scan finds man was not in a coma--23 years later →
news.cnet.com
If this were to happen to me, I feel like I would keep thinking about this song and get it caught in my head for 18 month increments:
Listen
Fall Music Series (2008)
SONG OF THE DAY
Tokyo Police Club
“Graves”
from the 2008 album Elephant Shell
Playing Dumb
The Good Life
Fall Music Series (2007)
SONG OF THE DAY
The Good Life
“Playing Dumb”
from the 2007 album Help Wanted Nights
“The “one” is a myth—a destructive myth. Otherwise sensible people will keep seeing someone despite red flags and major damage because, hey, what if turns out that this guy was “the one” and I dumped him just because he had a drinking problem/a drug problem/a lying problem/a Republican problem/a little girls problem. When you find yourself making that kind of rationalization, TSO, remind yourself that there is no “one,” singular, there are only guys—numerous guys—who come close enough to your ideal mate that they feel like this mythical “one” you’ve been lied to about all your life.”
— Dan Savage
Listen
Fall Music Series (2007)
SONG OF THE DAY
Eddie Vedder
“Rise”
from the 2007 album Into The Wild
The Different Kinds of People That There Are →
thestranger.com
reblogged from natface (sorry, Ryan):
(via pterodactyls:themattsmith:peterwknox:fullcredit)
This is brilliant. Also, I fall under the “People Who Will Just Have a Bite of Whatever You’re Having” category.
Bwahahaha. According to last night’s behavior, this is where I belong: “People Who Don’t Know How to Drink”
People Who Claim to Be Afraid of Clowns
These people (and they are numerous) are attempting to cultivate a cute quirk, but they are really just aping a cute quirk cultivated by thousands of cute-quirk-cultivators before them in a giant, gross, boring feedback loop. Yes, clowns can be mildly creepy. But come on. Among the many things that are scarier than clowns: fire, earthquakes, a guy with a knife, colon cancer, falling down the stairs (it could happen at any time!), rapists, people who just kind of look a little rapey and are standing too close to you in line at 7-Eleven, Marlo from The Wire, influenza, and scissors.
The above should be rendered on a plaque.
P.S. I belong to the “Russians” category and am definitely the sworn enemy of wizards.
