June 2009
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“If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a...”
– Roger Ebert, from his can opener of a review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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“Listen To Bob Marley”
– Bumper Sticker
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“Could ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail’ become a new metaphor in...”
– Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo DEEP THOUGHT on South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s puzzling “disappearance”
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Onion Sports Network: Scottie Pippen Inexplicably... →
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Consumerist: In-N-Out Wins Best Burger In Zagat's... →
Lunch is pretty much penciled in for tomorrow, and it’s pronounced ’Double-Double’. Here’s the complete Zagat survey.
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LA Times: Six Flags Files For Bankruptcy... →
Downsizing fun this summer.
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“‘Funemployed’ - Someone who is in a period of joblessness that they...”
– Wordie
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Los Angeles Lakers Claim 15th NBA Championship
The city needed something good to hang its hat on. Of course, all it takes is a near riot downtown by idiot non-fan opportunists (looters, firebugs, etc.) to take the shine off the trophy before it’s even on the plane headed for the West Coast. We’re not Detroit, assholes. Go ahead and roll in your grave, Red: Phil Jackson is the winningest coach in the NBA, in any professional...
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Moviestinger (dot com) →
“Movie Stinger - An extra scene during or after the credits of a film.”
Patience as entertainment. (via)
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Pittsburgh Penguins Take Lord Stanley's Cup
The weight of expectation is finally off Crosby’s shoulders. That sound you hear is the flurry of raging hardons at the NHL Marketing Department. Congrats, y’unz guys.
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"Annual"
by Robyn Sarah
The yearbooks are out today, with the ink barely dry on their gleaming pages, the faint puke-smell of the new bindings. On the bus, shagged and curly heads converge over the disappointing spread of candid shots on centre facing pages - random snaps where everyone who matters is blurred or too tiny or was looking the wrong way when the shutter clicked, and after they’ve each...
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MSNBC: Family Christmas Photo Found In Czech Ad →
Because if it’s on the Internet, it must be free for the taking. (Image: Lifted from MSNBC.com)
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“What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an...”
– Charles Krauthammer, Conservative Wingnut pundit, on what he believes FOX News has accomplished. (via)
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Daily Telegraph (UK): Japanese Company Does... →
There are seat-fillers, and then there are life-fillers. (via)
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“It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.”
– Bill Hicks
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GOOD: Picture Show - Buffalo, New York, All... →
Storm Warning - Joseph Tripi © 2007
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Digital TV Transgressions
NYT: Millions Still Not Ready For Digital TV Broadcasting armageddon is at hand. You can take away an American’s job, their health care coverage and their civil liberties, but there will be riots in the streets if anyone fucks with their TV.
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Buffalo News: Former Buffalo Brave Randy Smith... →
Immensely popular player. Yes, there was NBA basketball in Buffalo, New York. Unfortunately, aside from a few early exit playoff seasons, and an MVP in future-great Bob McAdoo in ‘75, they began a tradition of haplessness that lives on in their current incarnation, the L.A. Clippers.
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Today is National Doughnut Day →
In commemoration, Krispy Kreme is giving each customer one (1) free doughnut today. Pass the milk! (via)
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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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HERE & THERE: A Horizonless Projection In... →
Immersive mapping project featuring dense urban centers. (A 3-D rendered hat tip to WiQ2.0) (Image © Shulze & Webb Ltd.)
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World Monuments Fund (dot org) →
A private organization dedicated to preserving “important architectural and cultural heritage sites around the globe.”
Check out their 100 Most Endangered Sites from The 2008 Monuments Watch.
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LA Times: Starting Today, L.A. Limits Water... →
The Governator’s February drought declaration finally hits home and garden: Use more, pay more. How soon until bathing policies are enacted? Rain, rain, please come back. Not averse to sharing bath time, however.
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Know Thy Congressman (dot com) →
“A bookmarklet that displays an abundance of political and biographical information about current members of the Senate and House of Representatives.”
Keeping tabs is a good thing and the right thing to do.