BREAKING NEWS: It is no longer 115 Day. Also, Saturday Night Music Club.
Yaaaawwwwn… just waking up from my post-115 Day celebration hangover. What did I miss? That was a heckuva party. Wooo, doggies, don’t know if I could take all that more than twice a year.
Not sure if this is 100% Zack Condon sanctioned, but it’s still pretty neat. Somebody put a good bit of work into it if it’s not official.
BREAKING NEWS: It’s 115 Day.
Thanks to Cale for coming in first on wishing everyone good cheer on this glorious day, despite his time fail. Still, good try.
Drive like a maniac and climb through small windows, as is the custom.
Tuesday Night Music Club
Since Fletch mentioned it. Also, shut up if you don’t already hold the opinion that the Pixies are better than Beethoven. And, coming from your good friend Zack!, that’s saying a lot.
Yeah, I know–it was in “Fight Club.” But it was a fucking good song before that–and The Hollywood could never change the Pixies…right?
There is no doubt, this is the greatest play in all of sport.
Just noticed that Johnny Damon stole second base right before Mark Teixeira struck out to end Game 5 of the World Series. EXCEPT, Johnny Damon didn’t actually steal second base. Oh, he ran there, all right, and from first base. So why didn’t he get a stolen base? Because of defensive indifference.
Yep, because no one cared that Damon was stealing the base, he doesn’t get credit for stealing the base. How awesome is that? I love you, baseball.
Anyway, that’s always been my favorite play (or non-play) in the whole entire world, I just never made it official by putting it on the interweb. So here it is.
Dammit, I knew I should have gone to Harvard
NY Post (blech, sorry):
‘THE Wire,” HBO’s gritty series about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard.
The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show’s stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.
The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.
“I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication,” Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, “including studies by social scientists.”
Best TV drama of all time.
Hear us now and believe us later
I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow in NY-23, but watching the Republican candidate drop out because she can’t afford to fight both the Democratic candidate (who, apparently, is actually more conservative than the Republican, Scozzafava) and the ultra-wingnutty Doug Hoffman, makes me think back to when I mentioned how I thought that conservatives in the U.S. hadn’t even gotten close to hitting rock-bottom and would nominate even more ridiculous candidates in the next couple years. What’s really entertaining is that if Hoffman wins (and apparently he’s actually leading in the polls going into the election tomorrow, although that’s a whole lotta undecideds a day before an election) then the crazies are going to think that the proper strategy actually is to nominate even more of Teh Crazy.
As somebody or other said just the other day, we haven’t even gotten close to peak wingnut yet, y’all. There’s so much more insanity to go before this turns around. Grab your popcorn and buckle up.
The Glory of Nutmeg
Just got this message from longtime friend of the Agenda, Nutmeg, who spends his days hobnobbing with famous arty types in New York City:
I just walked into a bathroom to pee and Paul Simon was standing there. I said hello and immediately got pee fright.
Yep. Sounds about right.
I literally have no idea what this means
From an AP article on Yahoo today:
I admit that there are times when I read a sentence or a paragraph that is written perfectly well but just doesn’t compute in my head, but I just can’t see what’s going on here. Am I nuts? Does this look like it was written by someone who doesn’t really understand English?
I suppose it could be some kind of meta-comment on the quality of the statement put out by Boehner, considering the things he says are nonsensical as well, but I have a hard time giving the AP that kind of credit. Then again, we do have Boehner talking about how it would be better if people could buy insurance across state lines, when the House bill calls for just that, and saying that we need a fiscally responsible bill, when the CBO says the House bill is just that, and arguing in favor of medical malpractice reform, when the House bill encourages just that. So maybe the AP is just assuming that people will look about as closely at their article as Boehner did at the House bill.
Really, though, am I missing something? Do those words make sense in that order?
What, me worry?
Anybody else not all that concerned with the news that Joe Lieberman says he’s all about filibustering a health care bill he doesn’t like (read: one that has a public option or exists at all)?
It’s not like this is surprising or anything. But, really, why should we even bother believing what he says? When has he really ever stood consistently on “principle?” He’s doing what he always does, trying to get attention and seem relevant, then he’ll just do whatever’s going to be in his best interest politically. Connecticut favors the public option by, like, 3:1, by the way. Just sayin.
Then again, Droopy gets millions in cash money from the insurance industry…
But, really, I just can’t get that worked up over this.
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