Archive for the ‘ silly ’ Category
The video below of a North Carolina father which culminates in him shooting his daughter’s computer full of holes with a .45 caliber pistol has gone viral. Along the way it’s sparked two divergent reactions: those cheering him on for sticking it to his ungrateful daughter and those appalled at his bad behavior and violence [ READ MORE ]
Repeating yourself is something that becomes excruciatingly second nature when you’re a parent. Many is the time my wife and I have been flustered at something our children have not done. Not put on their shoes. Not put on their coat. Not brushed their teeth. Not gotten into the bath. Not eaten their meal. Not [ READ MORE ]
Years ago I was compelled to join LinkedIn, sometime before Facebook and sometime after MySpace. I never did join MySpace and, feeling like I shouldn’t miss out on the next Big Thing, I accepted a number of people’s connection requests on LinkedIn. I have never been an active user of the site. It seems like [ READ MORE ]
I found the following book, courtesy of The Daily What via Gizmodo. It’s called, Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be. The book is a collection of X-rays or, as they might be called, “Stomach Shots” or “Ass Slides.” From the few I’ve seen, the objects (everything from a cup [ READ MORE ]
Today is the day. Do your duty: run to your nearest movie theater and demand a showing of Atlas Shrugged Part 1! When the Objectivist Revolution comes, you’ll be lucky, you parasite worker, if you’re allowed to wear a Dollar Sign pin and lick the boots of our Capitalist Overlords. Hear the call, Captains of [ READ MORE ]
From the doctrine of INTERNET POETRY, long live blogs: long live free literature: long live public domain and creative commons: long live self-publishing: long live torrents: long live free pdf’s: long live pay-what-you-want: long live image-based poetry: long live the internet: So you can either wait with bated breath for the New Poetry Revolution or [ READ MORE ]
Need a title for the book your working on, or for your next project? I suggest you steal some of these from the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator[ READ MORE ]
I’m wasting time on the Internet tonight, looking through YouTube and I come across this video. It’s from a show in Melbourne, Australia back in November by one of my favorite bands, The New Pornographers. The crowd wants them to perform “Myriad Harbor.” One problem: Dan Bejar who does the vocals on this song isn’t [ READ MORE ]
This kind of silliness makes my day[ READ MORE ]
Today is the 40th anniversary of my favorite comic strip, Doonesbury. I have never tired of Gary Trudeau’s satire. Slate has a nice collection of articles about the strip, including an interview with Trudeau. What’s funny is that he has a hard time satirizing Obama. Believe it or not, Obama’s very tough for business. The [ READ MORE ]
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