OH SWEET LADY INTERNET, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THE HONOR OF SUCKING FROM YOUR BLOATED TEATS OF KNOWLEDGE AND WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATION ONCE MORE, I LOVE YOU ( Read more... )

i.e., goth is dead, and you'll never get laid again ( Read more... )

This is a complex joke that requires audience participation. The joke, if they can pull it off, is this: You can get a crowd of people to show up to just about anything. Glenn Beck.

Hey, man, they've done enough for me in the past ten years. I'll go.

I sucked in a breath waiting for the page to load only to find out the email sitting in the inbox was from Borders Rewards. The subject line: The invitation you've been waiting for!

NO, BORDERS, I BEG TO DIFFER. A TWENTY-PERCENT-OFF COUPON IS NOT THE INVITATION I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.

I too closely equate a project with a relationship. I fall in love very quickly, regardless of whether or not it has potential, and when it does have potential, I waffle like some twit teenage girl before a dance, Should I go with Billy or Jimbo, oh, gosh, I don't know! They're both dreamy, but is either of them the one? Wretch, gag ( Read more... )

Every morning I check my email like it might contain a lit stick of dynamite.

Or a rejection letter.

Same difference.

Providence music fans: The new Met Cafe is beautiful. They salvaged the old awful paintings from the Westminster Street exterior, of Janis Joplin and Buddy Holly and the one where Jim Morrison looks like some kind of grotesque marionette, and I fucking hated them before, and I still do, but I was thrilled to see them hanging from the interior walls ( Read more... )

Oh god, it's good to get online. Fuck's sake. And other astonished expressions of relief ( Read more... )

Shane brought home Armageddon in Retrospect the other day, the collection they put out a couple years ago of unpublished short stories, all relating to war, specifically to prisoners of war in Germany. Reading those, and his first-hand account of the bombing of Dresden, I kept trying to imagine Vonnegut as a young man, but I couldn't. The picture ( Read more... )

If Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are really putting on a rally, I'm going.