September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
14 posts
WatchGlenn Beck and Sarah Palin are coming to town this weekend and thankfully they have created a visitor guide for all the tea partiers.
Some highlights via dcist. and the tea party travel czar.
DC’s population includes refugees from every country, as the families of embassy staffs of third world countries tend to stay in DC whenever a revolution in their homeland means that anyone in their...
MAC cancels Rodarte line →
Design team Rodarte named items in their MAC makeup line after a violence-ridden town in Mexico (notorious for unsolved rape and murder of hundreds of young women). The line is now canceled. In all of this, one of the most surprising things (to me) is that there are people who are arguing that they hadn’t ever heard of Juarez until two designers named a nail polish after it…
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Via Sarah Palin’s main political platform, Facebook, which is used by college co-eds to exchange pictures of inebriation.
Maryland is a lost cause, I’ve lived here all my life and Marylanders always vote the same democrat losers in office. This state deserves everything it has got because the stupid residents are majority democrat and it will always be a loser state until that...
Good News
Because Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, the court orders entry of judgment permanently enjoining its enforcement; prohibiting the official defendants from applying or enforcing Proposition 8 and directing the official defendants that all persons under their control or supervision shall not apply or enforce Proposition 8. The clerk is...
WatchSuperchunk, a fantastic band from Chapel Hill. Went dark after their 2001 album and supposedly were done. But now they are back, releasing an album next month and playing a show in Chicago.
Here there are covering the Cure and they make it sound so perfect.
If you have time, you’ll want to listen to this, Throwing Things
July 2010
66 posts
a happy story
Dog Saves Canine Pal from Busy Intersection
For a dog named Brawn, his best friend, Brains, is his hero. Brains earned her name after leading Brawn, an emaciated male pit bull with a 20 lb. chain wrapped around his neck, through a busy intersection in downtown West Palm Beach, Fla.
“They seemed to be friends,” David Walesky of Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control tells...
Impending Democratic Socialist Doom, buy Gold...
This handy chart shows the dishonesty behind a lot of these ‘Buy Gold’ campaigns, specifically Gold Line, which Glenn Beck pimps for but this somehow makes him more of a common man.
See buying gold and buying antique gold coins is not the same thing, but Glenn and Goldlinedon’t tell you that. Goldline will sell you antique gold coins at an incredible markup. Instead of acting...
Basil Marceaux for Governor →
If only because this man is either so brilliant that he realized becoming a viral sensation would lead to free political advertisement or he is just that bat expletive crazy to say these things in public. Tennessee deserves this man.
Spain faces bullfighting ban vote →
baby naming
oh man, Moon Unit, Pilot Inspektor, and Audio Science are already taken?
Guess we’re back to the drawing board…
brief hiatus
due to bbqs, pizzeria Fridays, working Saturdays, German brew houses, doctor appointments, night time river walks, and camping with Kate Gosselin.
The absurdity of weather.com's 'Fitness Comfort...
The redesigned weather.com has added ‘apps’ to make your weather checking experience a more interactive and time consuming one. One of the apps is the ‘fitness comfort index’. The fine folks at weather.com help you determine if shorts or pants are needed for your outdoor activites and then will tell you whether exercise is : comfortable, moderate or dangerous.
This...
I'm Getting into the Import/Export Business →
Pabst, beer of Chicago, the beer so cheap that people at rock bottom and people who wear vintage t-shirts and skinny jeans can drink in harmony has taken on a level of aristocracy in China.
It is not PBR but still Pabst 1844 looks just like it.
So far China has taken Asian Carp and sold it as Wild Mississippi Sea Bass and brewed a $44 bottle of PBR. This may be why we are lagging behind China in...
Follow up to...What Facebook Hath Spawned
Selected comments from Sarah Palin’s Rage Book
Aya Sewell
Its not your land the history of Islam is of conqueres, the intention is very different. Guess what , just because you attained a passport, we dont consider you american, muslims did not help establish this country Andrew Hofheins BULL (Expletive Removed) THEY CAN BUILD IT SOME WERE ELSE LIKE IN IRAQ Joseph Hacker We,Americans,...
“This heat makes me think about skating topless. Nipple tassles.”
– Johnny Weir
What Facebook Hath Spawned
Wow, I spent five minutes this morning on Sarah Palin’s Facebook site, what a hot mess.
Currently the hot topic is a mosque set to be built near the former World Trade Center. Whether you support or denounce the idea, the queen of the Tea Party should have to check her Constitution credentials. Religious freedom is up there in that feisty First amendment.
I have not seen her call for a...
Fact.
I am now officially the owner of a thing called a snoogle. With the donut delux position, I am guaranteed to use it well into my golden “recliner” years.
A little too quiet...
catalogliving:
Elaine had never felt more alone than when the tumbleweed interrupted her afternoon of reading and plowing through some bottled water.
DC Restaurant Week - book now →
edatrix:
it’s my favorite time of year…
Your phone doesn't work? Here's a shiny new case... →
Sure the Bumper case will probably fix your phone but for the mighty Apple PR machine this just sounds clusmy and odd.
What I Need
Meridian Pint is really good. I sampled a wide variety of all American brewed beers and six hours of sleep later, I still feel very sampled this morning/afternoon. What I need is…
pastorelli pizza sauce + ritz cracker + shredded (not finely) mozzarella cheese +29 seconds of microwave = happiness
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Aaron Sorkin To Write and Direct John Edwards... →
(via meredithbklyn)
I should clarify
while Matt’s Thursday night was spent here, I spent a good part of mine in Del Ray surrounded by women with giant bellies struggling to keep balance. This is known as prenatal yoga and it is humorous, strenuous at times, and wonderful.
a favorite story about Kurt Vonnegut
As told by his son:
“He [Kurt Vonnegut] said he had to be a writer because he wasn’t good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950s, he was employed by Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that had jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper...
A Conversation At The Logan Square Blue Line Stop
Little girl: Daddy, can I have another book?
Dad: The answer to that question will always be yes.
On Tap Tonight
Meridian Pint http://www.meridianpint.com/
One of DCs only sustainable bars
