Archive for January, 2009

A friend brings this “profile” of single Nashvillians to my attention, and remarks as follows:
So if you are a man, you have to be blond or a football player? Except for the singer songwriter guy who was mad that the “girl” he took to a baseball game kept asking him questions about it because she [...]


HELL YEAH

29Jan09

FINALLY.


I’m glad that street vendor isn’t worried about sales.  Also, didcha notice Richard Halloran, titled, “owns home computer.”
h/t Champion b/w/o Hermenautic Circle.


Quoting big huge bits from the Boston Globe’s Brainiac “section”:

Imagine an alternate universe in which young professors don’t face the ultimatum to “publish or perish.” Instead, they’d face a contrary threat — censured if they rushed sloppy ideas into print, denied tenure if they’d ground out a numbing, heavily padded 400-page tome when a few [...]


In the tradition of my catch-as-updates-come-in on-line dating “series,” I give you a slightly related and just as funny link, to the “best of”, London Review of Books, personal section.  My favorites include:
I vacillate wildly between a number of archetypes including, but not limited to, Muriel Spark witticism-trading doyenne, Mariella Frostrup charismatic socialite, brooding, intense [...]


No one as Irish as Barack OBama

O’Leary, O’Reilly, O’Hare and O’Hara
There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama
You don’t believe me, I hear you say
But Barack’s as Irish, as was JFK
His granddaddy’s daddy came from Moneygall
A small Irish village, well known to you all
Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a [...]


Billy Joel, they can’t stand you because of your music; because of your stupid, smug attitude; because of the way you ripped off your betters to produce music that rarely reaches the level even of mediocrity. You could dress completely au courant and people would still loathe your lame lyrics.
It’s not that they dislike [...]


This is exactly not what you need from me, but Auditorium is worth being a bad influence.  There is no right answer, multiple solutions to every problem.  Take 20 minutes.


Er…

25Jan09

Body Flex 2.


more about "Idiots on Parade", posted with vodpod