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iCantbelievethisshit
David Essman said that a public figure dying is like a snow day for bad editorial cartoonists. If this is true ( and it is) then I guess widely-covered disasters are half days. Any time a celebrity dies, I prepare myself for an onslaught of bad to awful tributes full of crying inanimate objects and the same shitty joke set at the Pearly Gates ( Read more... ) -
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I went to the zoo and saw there were a hundred people there just like me. They all wanted to look at entertaining animals and feed the sea lions and give candy to the otters even though they were not supposed to. There were a hundred people not like me, too. The beleaguered parents, wardens of a three-foot radius as their offspring squirmed and ( Read more... ) -
Oh, right.
I think you should all listen to my radio show. The first episode was broadcast last week, and it was great. Well, it was great for me at least. It's on 90.3 FM, WZBC every Friday from 3 to 5 pm EST. This is, apparently, the absolute best time slot in the entire lineup and I landed it by pure luck. Way to go, me ( Read more... ) -
How many chumps do you take?
So, uh, the Tea Party Express rolled into Boston today. Sarah Palin spoke, but I was too late to catch that. Predictably, lots of middle-aged white people who love flags showed up to rally against perceived threats of socialism in a public park. Of course, it wouldn't be Boston without a sizable number of creative liberal counter-protests ( Read more... ) -
Tattoo the Mario
I'm pretty tired of the cultural fetishization of childhood video games among people in their twenties and early thirties. Recently a friend of mine was talking about how she knows someone who got a Zelda tattoo. The other day I saw someone with a tattoo of Luigi in all his 8-bit glory. Those of you know me know I am not generally a fan of tattoos ( Read more... ) -
Yesterday, this happened.
First, I've put together a video:
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
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For your own safety!
I feel like it's only a matter of time before all airline passengers look something like this:
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