In the Onion’s Our Dumb Century, they have an article dated February 20, 1947 proclaiming the advent of “tele-vision” and the dawn of a new golden age. “Tele-Vision Promises Mass Enrichment of Mankind,” it says, “New device to provide high-minded alternative to mindless drivel found on radio." Like so many Onion articles, it's written with a ( Read more... )

 So remember that JK Wedding Dance video that got like 29 million hits on YouTube? They've decided to use their publicity for a good cause.

On their website, they've got a link for donating money to charity. Which is fine, you know. Ok. Whatever.

Then I read what charity it is, and why: they're raising money for the Sheila Wellstone Institute to End ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything in like 10 weeks, and as far as updates go, almost nothing in my life is the same as it was then. But I don't have time for that right now, so instead some trivia on the bizarre death of Tennessee Williams:

Williams "died on February 24, 1983, after he choked on an eyedrop bottle cap in his room at the Hotel Elysee in New ( Read more... )

I'm remembering my dreams these days. This is uncommon. I usually don't remember any of them, a fact I have often lamented, as I, like everyone else, find my own dreams fascinating. Most of the time, anyway.

I wonder now if I've hit critical mass. Maybe my unconscious only has so much to tell me, and if I remember my dreams every single night, maybe ( Read more... )

 
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I'm not going to sleep with nicotine patches on anymore. While I like the absolute certainty that I'll be transported somewhere epic and/or insane, the unpleasant ones as just as common as pleasant, not to mention that when a stimulant is pumping through your blood while you sleep, you shoot up like a light at about 5 am.

I notice, though, that even ( Read more... )

I emerge here, from my relatively long silence, merely to say that I am absolutely certain, 100% sure, that Sarah Palin fucked a moose. It was only a matter of time. 

I'm just into quoting other people lately. Excuse me.

For instance: here is a transcript of Christopher Hitchens, in C-Span, mocking the Ayn Rand cult better than I've ever heard it:

"I’ve always thought it quaint, and rather touching, that there is, in America, a movement that thinks that people are not yet selfish enough. And I’ve met some of it’s ( Read more... )

This American Life is one of the most consistantly amazing things I've ever seen or heard. They're at least two seasons through a television version, and I just watched the third episode of the second season on Netflix, "Going Down in History." I've written before about this feeling, that inspirational feeling that overwhelmes you, fills me to the ( Read more... )

I had my first smoking dream last night. I was at Eastern Standard for my cousin Aaron's wedding, and the whole family was there, and Kelly and Aaron went out to smoke (neither currently smoke), and I had a cigarette, waking up feeling terribly, terribly guilty ( Read more... )