January 2008
23 posts
Shafer Has Unique Timing
Although any story featuring sex, violence, death, or dismemberment can qualify a news story for heavy promotion on a cable channel Web site, nothing satisfies the sites like an endangered baby.
— The tabloid excesses of CNN.com, MSBNC.com, and FOXnews.com, Jack Shafer. (Slate)
The same ring true for any website of a broadcast news entity. Except sometimes it’s Monkey news.
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Linkins Has Got it Right
Through the modern miracles of motion pictures and digital video discs, I had the pleasure of watching two of the cinema’s most essential New York City stories this weekend: the JJ Abrams-brainstorm Cloverfield - which is just as taut and thrilling as they’d have you believe - and the dreamy, moving Jim Sheridan movie In America (finally!), which was simply sublime. The central...
Tensions at Work Are High
Co-Worker: What is dizilly w knollizy?
Me: I don't know, he filed last night.
Co-Worker: I could kill you.
Rudy's Done, Hopefully
It was all riding on Florida for Giuliani, he came in third, and thanksfully may be on his way out.
I’m really happy to see this guy lose, and hopefully see 9/11 politics go with him. Nobody enraged me more during the debates. He was a smug, clueless asshole. I wasn’t in New York during 9/11, but I honestly don’t know what he did other than keep his shit together to become...
Tumblr addiction
eric-the-red:
I Tumbled eight times today — including this one, it makes nine. I think I have a Tumbl problem.
It was ten with this bit of Mocknicle nostalgia.
eric-the-red:
Brian ought to be live blogging this idiot on TV.
I did not live blog the idiot speaking for his last SOTU because I was too busy trying to follow the rules of a rather intense drinking game. If had been doing both it would have been along these lines.
Cheney looks like he’s got a turtlehead popping out. Seriously, in any second it looks like he might run out and lay...
Watch
“Sax Rohmer #1” - The Mountain Goats
Feb. 19th can’t come soon enough. Loved the song from when I first heard it, possibly the best Goats video yet. I’d still love to see one that might capture what it’s like to see them live, but that would require a lot of time for Darnielle to say such sweet nonsense. A live DVD would be nice, or just a live album.
WatchBasically for Eric to reblog, but for everybody to enjoy.
8-Years-Ago I Would Have Cared
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has been hinting that he plans to publish his memoirs for some time now, but perhaps the delay is understandable considering the backlog of material: “I’m still working on most every day and I really enjoy it…Right now I have eight volumes sketched out.” Will the world ever really be ready for eight volumes of hand-wringing over one guy’s...
Meantime, this conversation was going on at the...
Suze: it's too perfect. I wonder if it's a spoof
DOT: I know -- Brian and I are trying to figure that out
Suze: lol.. he'd know
DOT: He's trying to register now . . .
Suze: that of course would make him a registered sex offender
A Productive Morning
DOT: http://conjugalharmony.com/browse.html, Suze found this and told me I should send it to you . . . WOW
DOT: Check out BabyBoo, "drug trafficking, murder and some small stuff"
ME: WOW, gonna get me an inmate girlfriend!!
DOT: The descriptions of why they're in jail is great
ME: i like Fisty, "Rape, assault with a deadly weapon and rape again. Only takes three for life and threes a crowd. "
DOT: Lol -- I know -- I need to check it out more when I have time -- I have to turn crap audio first thing in the am -- sigh -- this is a link that I am sending to EVERYONE!
ME: clicking register takes you to site called "Rosie's vagina"... Damn, and I was hoping this was how I was really going to find my perfect prison bride.
DOT: I wonder if it's real . . . I feel like this should, for some reason, be illegal
ME: no not real at all, I'm pretty sure such a service would be legal, but not for 30 day temprorary marriages.
DOT: Ah --ok -- so we think the chicks are fake? Or just the site
ME: It's a gag site... Making fun of dating sites, and people willing to marry an inmate. Somebody found pics on the web and wrote hilarious "about me" blurbs. I doubt there is anything on the site beyond the homepage.
DOT: That;s so disappointing/sad
ME: no sadder than the image in my head of Ian Brown trying to sign up and being frustrated by constantly ending up at Rosie's vagina...
To Clarify
Eric: fuck you
Eric: i put it on my tumblr
Me: no, they look like fun
Me: but it's the entire story is "these are ALSOME!!!"
Me: and the video would be way better if it weren't them going up and down a hallway
Eric: alright
About Time
Kucinich to drop out of White House race - Politico Staff - Politico.com
Finally, Thompson is a trend setter.
“This is a dark time in cookie history,” wrote Gary Nadeau of...”
– The Hydrox Cookie is Dead, and Fans Won’t Get Over It (WSJ) viaConsumerist
Keeping With Tradition
In keeping with past traditions of informing people of obscure/stupid “holidays” I come across at work, I present to you that today is National Pie Day. How does one celebrate other than simply eating pie?
Highlights from the American Pie Council… seriously.
Share pie. Whether you make or buy pie, share it. By its very nature, pie is meant to be eaten with others.
Get...
“Please have Chuck Norris get in touch with me as I have a wonderful opportunity...”
– Fran [REDACTED]
Republican Part, Denton, Texas
Swear to god, this is an e-mail sent to several people at the job. Seriously, if we could reach Chuck Norris, all of our competition would be roundhouse kicked into non-existence.
HD Radio
Does anyone else in Radio land feel as if HDRadio is the “special kid” on the Radio bus? — eric-the-red
More like the kid that nobody gives a damn about, even though he has a nicer version of everything else you have, and iTunes Tagging
My First Paultard
Met my first Paultard today at work.
“You looked like an adult who was just told something ridiculous by a child,” said my friend and co-worker the Paultard about my reaction to the shocking news, and the best part of my day. Picture to come tomorrow.
“AP CALLS NV FOR ROMNEY; CNN WILL WAIT FOR VOTES TO COME IN”
-CNN ~ 1 p.m.
I don’t know if I should say fuck you CNN, or fuck you AP, Politico, and every other news source.
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Only to Me
The batteries died in my mouse at work today. There weren’t any left, so the below was left stuck on my screen until I managed to find new batteries, about 10 minutes later. From the co-worker, DotI can’t stop laughing — that is the kinda shit that would only happen to you — LOL! What? it totally counts as local news. Bumper Nuts. This is the Black Tuxedo Nuts model....