January 2012
1 post
the world: hey man we've got some really serious problems like global warming and mass economic failure and riots and genocide and aids and cancer and your healthcare system is shit so maybe we should get to work
US government: sit down I have to stop people from sharing things online
US government: also pizza is vegetables
November 2011
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October 2011
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July 2011
3 posts
May 2011
3 posts
March 2011
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February 2011
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July 2010
1 post
Consumer Complaint
I was once criticized by a cranky, middleaged lesbian as being “too easily able to tune people out when they are talking.” She said some other stuff, too, but I stopped listening.
June 2010
1 post
Losing ground
“How can I explain personal pain?” —Violent Femmes, “Gimme the Car” My faith in God has never been Herculean, in fact has only resembled a broken, frail little man on its best day. I’m not sure if I pulled the plug or if natural causes took their final payment, but I recently realized I’ve been living with a corpse. I hear people talk about “freedom...
September 2009
2 posts
Q & A, 1.2
Q. Please describe your writing style. A. A grizzled African-American man sits atop the fog-enshrouded precipice of a mountain, lone soul to know this peak. Once a bank teller. Once a famous rapper. Once a jazz aficionado, well-acquainted with the dark corners of the night and the alleys that led to sweet sounds, grime-covered walls and tables filled with empties slowly refilled with a musical...
Q & A, 1.1
Q. Please describe your writing style. A. My writing style is like a cougar fighting a leopard. I know what you’re thinking: Impossible, cougars and leopards originate on different continents and, thereby, will never be observed fighting. And you’d be right in your facts but, come on, this is the age of globalization and anything is possible. How about in a zoo? Most zoos are pretty...
August 2009
3 posts
Why Generation-Y Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues -... →
Of course I think this is bullshit. This article better exemplifies my stance toward digital communications and social networking: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
But I’m glad to see this author, for whom I have zero respect, publishing in the WSJ, a neo-con rag for uninformed sycophants and fuddy-duddies.
I mean, his premise crumbles at the very beginning....
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Actor Piven cleared in... →
Normally I avoid the news. Because all the news seems to be bad and gives me nightmares, like last night, when I dreamed that a clawed killer performed a very messy murder in our house (of an unknown third party) and, upon returning home and finding a bloody mess and goat eating what appeared to be an organ of some kind, my family and I were forced to contemplate what our next action would, nay...
July 2009
1 post
I...
…am lazy with this thing, but I’ll keep it b/c, inevitably, I will one day become very prolific on Tumblr.
June 2009
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May 2009
2 posts
Brooklyn tattoo artist files $220M lawsuit against... →
What??! No! NoNoNo!!
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from... →
January 2009
1 post
start
Oh, yeah, it is so on.