Monthly Archives: June 2009

Infinite Summer? I got your Infinite Summer RIGHT HERE! (Ooo, burn!)

No, actually, I think it’s a great idea, and you should follow Zack! and his progress reports on David Foster Wallace’s masterwork, Infinite Jest, throughout the next couple of months. And you should really probably also read it, because 70 … Continue reading

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Week 1: Prep/Pep Talk: Year of the Infinite Summer

As a few of our readers may know (I let on about it in our Twitter feed), this week the Infinite Summer began.  The goal is to read the imposing Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, moving at a leisurely … Continue reading

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Damn it’s hot outside Music Club

It’s back! Headed out for the weekend, going surfing with Jesse Ventura. Figured I’d leave you with this. Try not to get too excited when Slick Rick jumps in, it’ll be hard. The album cover is a frame from Charles … Continue reading

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Ten?!? I guess that’s just how you was raised.

Word came down from on high yesterday that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be expanding the number of nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars from five to ten. They claim that they’re returning to their … Continue reading

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Yeah, you ARE jealous

Shot by dinglebArry on his cell phone while he busts out his MPC. Takes some coordination to do all that at once. Short, but very sweet.

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Jealous?

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Yes, but what will the rest of us eat?

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My eating habits are dealt a devastating blow.

Sent in by JP: Anthony Franz says an undercooked salmon salad gave him a 9-foot-tapeworm, and in August he sued the Chicago restaurant that served it to him. If Franz’s tapeworm tale holds water – and the Chicago Sun-Times reports … Continue reading

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What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?

Times Online (UK): An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident. Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday … Continue reading

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The Fog of War

Today is Robert McNamara’s 93rd birthday. If you haven’t seen Errol Morris’s inimitable documentary The Fog of War, you need to turn this computer off and go find it and watch it this instant. There are many people who still … Continue reading

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