December 2009
59 posts
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November 2009
67 posts
Nation To Be Sterilized From 1 P.M. To 4 P.M. This... →
I knew I shouldn’t have voted last year.
15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone... →
Oh, that's why you never take the D train... →
exoblivione:
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Hey, this is essentially the plot from Naked Lunch! See:
“A bugged-out exterminator went berserk on the D train early Saturday, fatally plunging a knife into a fellow straphanger’s neck after they argued over a seat.”
Cultural references to pigs - Wikipedia, the free... →
This whole page is golden, but this is my favorite line:
“The Ken Burns documentary, The Civil War, quotes U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as saying, “Too many pigs. Not enough tits,” in reference to the number of people asking him for government jobs.”
This evening a producer/writer for Saturday Night Live came to talk to my class, and it managed to convince me to watch this week’s episode. Usually this show is god-awful, but this sketch made me laugh. Even January Jones was good in it, and she can hardly speak English.
Why 'Mad Men' Is Even More Addicting in Its Third... →
It occurred to me moments ago that Mad Men might be the greatest story told in the idiom of American culture. No Pomo.
Dustin Hoffman at 2009 Library Lions Gala, New...
NY Magazine: Why do you love the library?
Dustin Hoffman: It’s the first place I ever got laid. It was in the non-fiction section in 1958.
NYM: Are you serious?
DH: I wasn’t serious, but she was.
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines... →
THIS SATURDAY, TALKING HEAD CLUB
witchhunt:
TIMES NEW VIKING (SHRED)
THE AXEMEN (New Zealand)
SLOW JERKS (that’s us!)
MR. MOCCASIN (RAD)
$12!!!
8pm!!!
BE THERE.
This is an occasion for traveling home for!
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
– Satchel Paige