"getupgetupgetup!--thataboy, i like that fuckin' hustle!"

(this shit is crazy):

http://www.messnyc.net/video/bridgebattle2.swf

Kenya's 'Koranic fish' disappears
Odhiambo Joseph
BBC, Mombasa

A fish with markings that resembled a Koranic text has disappeared from the Kenyan Fisheries Department in Mombasa.

this has been a very shitty day. I'm tempted to think that it can only get better from here, but that's like saying out loud, "I'm not going to bring my umbrella because it's not going to rain," or "well, I'm sopped to the bone, I couldn't possibly be any. more. wet." and we all know what happens when you say things like that, don't we?

thunderstorm!

one minute it is peaceful and gray; the next, rain is being lashed against the window by the wind and the sky is rumbling. A lady with a bright yellow umbrella runs to her car. the sky lightens again--the storm has passed.

oh, and also? the popular music critic of the New Yorker is a racist.

( just sayin )

Paul Newman made a horrible mistake with his fake oreo cookies. People tried to help him out, but he wouldn't let them. The thing is, they're too good, by which I mean, they're not trashy enough. They're made with all kinds of good things, and they taste good. Which is nice in theory, I suppose, but they're fucking COOKIES, Paul! They're ( Read more... )

at some point, every responsible human being must ask themselves: what am I worth?

right now, I ain't worth shit.

(le sigh)

I wish I were more disciplined.

the article , "Where Rockets Exit, Shells Enter and Houses are Ruined."

By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: May 2, 2006

BEIT HANUN, Gaza Strip, April 30 - The Abu Odeh family was finishing Saturday lunch when there was a screaming across the sky.

Way to go, Erlanger, you've read the first sentence of Gravity's Rainbow.

"Kids can't wait to drop $400 on a sweatshirt," Ricky Saiz, a salesman, said of the shop's hottest item. "We sell $4,000 worth of them a day."

So...they sell 10 of them a day? that doesn't seem like so "hot" a trend to me.