has passed through reconciliation. 220 to 207. Looking forward to the roll call, to see which 207 voted against it. I'm willing to help them get un-elected. Initial guess: 90% of all the Republicans & like 10 Democrats ( Read more... )

Wall Street's Bailout Hustle, by Matt Taibbi. Dude's one of the last real journalists out there & he does a great job of documenting how the banking system has ripped us all off. Read it and weep, or better yet get mad and start arming up.

I just don't know about all the haters.

I'd love to know what the old guy in the background was thinking as this went on.

Seriously. It's been nearly a month since I updated this thing, but that's for a really good reason: I haven't got much going on ( Read more... )

Here's the workout Christian Bale used when training for the first Batman movie. Looks pretty damn challenging. I might give it a shot this year ( Read more... )

I can't find a schedule for reruns of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Jeez, for such a funny show, it's really hard to find ( Read more... )

Let's have a look back at the previous decade, shall we ( Read more... )

I had an awesome New Year's. I got drunk at my favorite dive bar, went to a "punk cabaret" and watched a jazz band do covers of Nirvana as a team of acrobats in old-time costumes did their act. Then I went to another party, an old-school rave -- where some jerk puked on my shoe. I was also hit in the face with a pie. I went to the bathroom & ( Read more... )

I'm walking up Broadway between 29th & 30th Streets. There's a barker out in front of a store, hollering about perfumes on sale or whatever... I walk by he goes quiet and says, "horse, horse." I ignored him, kept walking & he started hollering about cheap perfumes again ( Read more... )

Apparently they show reruns of the Lawrence Welk show. I'm watching one right now and I'm fascinated by the whole ridiculous thing.

The music and dance numbers are so... bloodless. I love all music, I have no trouble with barbershop quartets & polkas. But it's just so lacking in spirit, this clean. It's too clean, too safe, too white. It's like ( Read more... )