"We wouldn't have e-mail if it weren't for AIDS."--Character in Me and You and Everyone We Know.

So, the guy who plainclothes cops held down and shot five times in the head at Stockwell Station in London turned out to be a Brazilian national. Well, that's what he gets for doing the samba a million miles per hour across the platform wearing a heavy wintercoat mid-summer during a time of great crisis in London. I'd feel bad, but all I can say ( Read more... )

Ali G, Borat, and Bruno are in Dallas:

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/archives2/010410.html

Check that site for more details.

Ben Gibbard just namedropped the author I am currently reading in an interview on the new death cab documentary. Is nothing sacred?

Then the guitarist dropped Sarah Vowell's name on the floor.

Reasons why this guy is a bad idea:
Pro-Life (proverbial bag of worms!)
Raised in Indiana
White Male
Owns every season out of Everybody Loves Raymond DVDs
Constructionist (literally interprets the Constitution [I am looking for someone who interprets it abstractly])

I have replaced eating with reading.

Just read the end of the new book. After meeting the new Egyptian Dark Arts (Read: Islam) Professor at Hogwarts, Harry Potter and his friends strap on C4 and blow themselves up on the tube. ISN'T THAT SOME FUCKED UP SHIT.

I wish Lance Armstrong would stop winning the Tour de France.

I wish Tim Burton would stop remaking movies and calling them re-imaginations.

I wish Eric D. would stop slamming my fucking car door and trunk after I told him to let up 112 times last night.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Dear Americans,

Contrary to popular belief, Juliette Binoche and Augusto Pinochet are not the same person.

Please update your address books, as they hate getting each other's phone calls and mail.

Thanks,
D

Dear Person in the ugly beige crusted leaf print dress ( Read more... )