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Things I easily could have gone my whole life without hearing
Originally published at Firefly the Great. Please leave any comments there.
So I took a guy’s money a few times in a row today, and he said “Oh, it must be that time of the month for you, huh?” and I was just… taken aback. How seriously fucked up do you have to be to think that’s an appropriate thing to say? EVER? I mean, I understand that gamblers ( Read more... ) -
Heh.
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As someone who finds progressive rock inevitably and unintentionally hiliarious, it is my duty to point out this AV club article about the worst prog rock album covers ever.
1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus
Arguably the most infamous work of bad art in prog history, the ( Read more... ) -
Damn you, Alexander Graham Bell
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In the movie Finding Forrester, there’s a part where Sean Connery admits he took the ringer out of his phone some years ago. When I first watched it, Chuck pointed at the television and went “See! See! That’s what I want to do!”
At the time, I didn’t understand it. At the ( Read more... ) -
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Originally published at Firefly the Great. Please leave any comments there.
Some times I wonder why I still read James Lileks’ weblog so regularly, given that it’s all about his life and his life as a million degrees separated from mine, and then posts like today’s remind me: he is one of the few people out there who is able to completely overthink ( Read more... ) -
Stuff I Really Didn’t Make Up, Part 10342
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Henry VIII’s Topless Dancers.
I always wondered about the meaning of “topless” when used in conjunction with someone most famous for beheading his wives….
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Writer’s Strike and Copyright
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Orson Scott Card has some interesting ideas on his website about the current WGA strike and copyright reform:
The problem comes back to copyright. The studios require writers to sign work-for-hire contracts, which means that even though the writer invented everything in the ( Read more... ) -
I need to move
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The news about Ron Paul’s 1990s newsletters and the hateful, racist rhetoric they contained is not particularly surprising to me. Disappointing, but not surprising.
I never exactly threw my support behind Paul because I disagree with him about foreign policy, and I think ( Read more... )
