Archive for November, 2008

Shame on me.

06Nov08

I totally forgot to start brainstorming music suggestions for the Inaugural Ball.  Damn.  Think fast think fast:

Earth, Wind, and Fire yes. yes. yes.
Yes, also some George Benson.  This George Benson.
I am NOT going to vote for Stevie Wonder, unless someone does a duet with video footage of him c. 1974.
One has to hope George Clinton [...]


There’s something pornographic about The Globe’s Big Picture focus on the President-Elect, but I’m still in a post-coital daze, not yet crass.
Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to wish a member of the transition team good luck and to offer my services.  You know, if they need someone to crack jokes, or whatever.


If there is anyone out there who still doubts that academia is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of Saint Simon is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our peer-reviewed system, today I have your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines of text that [...]


04Nov08

You’re all out there worrying yourselves up about this whole election, when what you really need to be worried about is penis power, as you will learn in this…well…exceptional…bit of tape.

h/t sfj


01Nov08

Palin gets punk’d.