August 2011
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“Children are not our future and I can prove it with my usual flawless logic....”
– George Carlin
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Transformer Man
I was having a beer (well, several, actually) with a friend the other day, and after a while the subject turned to music, as if often does, especially when you don’t need further insights about the life-altering properties of diaper-changing. Anyway, he’s a pretty big Neil Young fan, but told me he didn’t like the album where Neil’s voice is all “high and...
“There was a time when literary humor was a powerful cultural force, partially...”
– Looking for the Role of Comic Novels in the Comedy World | Splitsider
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My main worry is that the new Blade Runner will be directed by the other Ridley Scott. The one who made White Squall, Black Rain, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the most leaden Robin Hood everto grace a screen.
“if Penn Jillette opposes taxes on moral grounds, then he’d still oppose them...”
– Pen Jillette and His Libertarian Legerdemain « Threat Quality Press
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Guided by Voices had chosen Øyafestivalen as the sole European venue in which to jangle away a summer afternoon. I decided to get my inner music fashionista on and picked up a day pass. Had I known Pulp were performing, I’d have splurged on a Friday pass too, but it probably would have been difficult to make out the band behind the queue of music writers lined up to fellate Jarvis Cocker.
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“I admit I was initially rather taken with the idea of #riotcleanup. The...”
– The spirit of the Blitz - god, how I hate the spirit of the Blitz
“I feel most single when I’m sick. Someone come take care of me. Hello? Oh,...”
– I can relate to this article. The Times When I Feel Most Single « Thought Catalog
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Aw, bless
The Westboro Batshit Church is threatening to come to Norway to picket the funerals of the slain after the Oslo terrorist attack, which Norway clearly had coming for allowing those gayz that Fred Phelps has to think about so very, very often, what with their gay swishing in the gay Castro in tight, bulging, gay pants, to go unstoned. Remarked staff chief Johan Fredriksen of the Oslo Police:
This...
