October 2007
84 posts
Could The 'War Of The Worlds' Scare Happen Today? →
Why bother with fiction when World War III is nearing reality? (via C|Net)
“…And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most under qualified person since...”
– Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) - During the 10.30.07 Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC (via Crooks and Liars)
Baptism
I help my father
into the shower
with his good hand
he grips my arm for support.
Inside he sits like Buddha
on a plastic stool
and waits for me
to begin.
I drench him
with warm water,
soap his head, his back,
the flabby stomach,
the private parts
private no more.
I had not before seen my father’s
nakedness, nor the changing
contour of his being,
his growing...
Green Funerals →
My no-frills Buri-O-Kit: $42.50.
Momspit →
Gentle, no rinse cleanser for hands and face. Really. (via Boing Boing)
Brijit →
Online aggregator provides 100-word-or-less abstracts of popular long-form content (Wired, New Yorker, ESPN, etc.) in an effort to be known ‘as your well-read friend who leads you to that can’t miss article, video clip or product.’
Brijit, my short attention span thanks you.
What's Your Halloween Candy Personality? →
Analysis based on ‘what you hand out’. (via The Washington Post)
No mention of the psychology behind the popcorn ball disseminator. But based on years of personal, in-the-field data collection, I’ve concluded it means you’re a cheap-ass.
This Week's Canceled DVR 'Season Passes'
Back To You The Big Bang Theory K-Ville Pushing Daisies
BoSox Take Series →
And A-Rod opts out of his Yankee contract. Home plate tectontics at work on the eastern shore. The shift is on.
(Go Cubs!)
NFL We're Seeing A Trend 8
FEMA's Fake Press Conference →
Deplorable yet equally unsurprising. (via Crooks and Liars/Washington Post)
Honeyshed →
Online QVC/MTV mash-up for the ‘kids’. What I thought were my bones creaking was, in fact, my demographic.
“I couldn’t find London on a map if they didn’t have the names of the...”
– Channing Crowder - Miami Dolphins linebacker (and accidental cartographer), commenting on his team’s upcoming NFL game in the UK.
How Santa Ana Winds Fuel Fires →
NFL Adds $10M To Fund For Retired Players →
Amount to be added to $7 million already earmarked for medical expenses and pensions. Huh. From a league raking in nearly $3.1 billion per year from TV deals; a league built on the backs, hips, and knees of its employees.
Candy Corn is my Halloween Crack.
Close Encounters Of The Kucinich Kind →
In new book, longtime friend Shirley MacLaine details Democratic Presidential candidate’s visitation by otherwordly observers in Washington State. No comment from the Kucinich camp.
But Talking Points Memo quotes the Ohio Congressman in a 2002 Cleveland Plain Dealer piece:“I’m in favor of expanding opportunities for people to have a deeper understanding of the...
'Prairie Home's' Keillor Gets Restraining Order... →
From the Maybe I Shouldn’t Use My Imagination Department, CNN reports:Keillor’s filing said the e-mails and letters were often “disturbing, unintelligible and rambling,” and in one, Campbell “graphically described making love to me.”
Ew.
How To Properly Hug A Baby →
How can you not make an audible “Awwwww” after seeing this? (via Metafilter)
TasteBook →
Slick, made-to-order cookbook which you can even personalize with your own recipes. Now if I can just find those full-bleed tabletop shots of my killer grilled cheese sandwich in iPhoto…
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! →
FROM ENGADGET. GO AHEAD: SHOUT TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT. (JUST REMEMBER… IT’S TODAY ONLY)
Bwahahaha: Horror And Sci-fi From Radio's Golden... →
From The Monster Club. Download some MP3s. Crack open a bag of Fun-Size Snickers (you can always buy another one for the trick-or-treaters). Plug in your earbuds. Dim the lights.
Those goosebumps on your arm…? It’s called imagination.
NFL Will You Look At That... 7
Gilmourish →
Via Metafilter. Attention guitar gearheads! If you didn’t know David Gilmour’s solo from ‘Comfortably Numb’ was played on a 1970 Strat through a Muff, an Electric Mistress, a HiWatt amp and a Yamaha rotating speaker… well, you do now.
'Freaks'
In the spirit of Halloween, TCM has opened the vaults (sorry) to air some classic horror films this month.
Tod Browning’s Freaks, while a few inches short of horror, ranks up there on the Creep-O-Meter. Its behind-the-curtain depiction of circus performers (using actual sideshow ‘freaks’) is equally admirable and questionable. You watch, yet you cringe at the same time.
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WatchPoll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters (via The Onion)
Why You Should Read Poetry... Yes, Poetry →
This Week's Canceled DVR 'Season Passes'
Big Shots Bionic Woman (Michelle Ryan-Katee Sackhoff bionic chick fights notwithstanding) Cane Carpoolers Cavemen Chuck
WGA Negotiations Take Surprise Turn →
From Variety. Studios take proposed residual revamp off the table. A nice step in the right direction. Still a long way to go, apparently.
Let’s see if the Writers can use the term Quid Pro Quo in a sentence.
Japancakes... →
…is a great band name. Their music’s not too shabby, either.
Best Buy TVs Now All Digital →
From C|Net Blogs. Largest consumer electronics chain in U.S. will now only sell televisions with digital tuners.
We’ll miss you, rabbit ears.
The Seed Bank Atop The World →
From the LA Times:‘Should catastrophe strike the rest of the globe, a repository of plant varieties should be safe, tucked away in remote, frozen Svalbard’.A noble endeavor. But Remote and frozen don’t immediately come to mind when I think argiculture and farming.
Yankees Squeeze Play On Torre →
Again with the ‘Sporconomics’. If George & Sons wanted to let him go, they should’ve manned-up and just let him go. To try and spin this as Torre wanting more money is a finagle more akin to D.C. politics. One helluva skipper. He deserved better.
Gotta break eggs to make an omelet… or a mess.
Bills Seek NFL Permission To Play Game(s) In... →
1 Pre-Season and 1 Regular Season Game… for now. Toronto? Toronto?! The Argonauts aren’t good enough for you? Oh, right. Sorry.
Sports economics. Whatever. It just smells like Management’s setting Buffalo’s fans up for an even bigger punch in the balls. Once longtime owner Ralph Wilson (age 89) steps aside, it’s anybody’s guess what happens to the team. Smells...
Joey Bishop, Last Member Of 'The Rat Pack', Dies →
Archeological Evidence Of 'Beach Parties' For... →
From CNN. Researchers find several hints of ‘modern’ living at a dig site in South Africa, including the harvesting and eating of seafood, which apparently happened 40,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Jott →
Hands free messaging from your cell phone. Send an email. Send a text. See the transcription feature butcher your friends’ and family’s names with hilarious results.
Fundrace 2008
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Who’s contributing to ‘08 Election campaigns, and how much. (via The Huffington Post)
Wahoo!!
Gotta think ESPN’s Baseball Tonight analysts are aready working up their ‘08 Yanks-Sox rebuilding stories. What else are they gonna talk about… The Rockies? The Tribe?
And there was a whole lotta BoSox woulda-shoulda-couldas from Joe and Tim in the booth tonight.
But the kicker was the FOX game highlights sign-off over a bed of XTC’s ‘Knuckle Down’ (from...
ESPN: Bills' Injured Tight End Everett Has Walked... →
To whatever extent, it’s fantastic news!
Word Up On Broadcast TV's Sliding Standards →
Decency critics have a problem with the rising instances of naughty words on television. Words…? Who gives a poop?!