February 2010
15 posts
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Haven’t been writing here much, as I’ve been spending time writing satire and screenplay, and staying out all night at Bruce Springsteen cover band shows and Dave & Busters, but I thought I’d point this out:
Ex-Met Edgardo Alfonzo, who played with ex-Yomiuri Giant Hisanori Takahashi, likens Takahashi to Tom Glavine. Alfonzo said Takahashi throws 88 or 89 mph, tops out at 91...
WatchPretty funny. Well played.
If only we fought them with such tenacity on thing that actually matters, like jobs and healthcare policy, though.
Following President Obama’s surprise appearance at the White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs garnered laughter from the press corps by holding up his hand to reveal that he had written notes on his palm in black marker. ...
Singing Sinatra Can Get You Killed →
I submit this without comment, beyond the fact that sometimes, I think about how fucked up and backwards the United States is, and then I read things like this and realize it’s a shared trait amongst all mankind:
The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled....
Wall Street To Hold Telethon for Goldman CEO
Well, I’ve done it. I’ve taken down Wall Street with one swift stroke of the e-pen.
reallyseriousnews:
Reacting swiftly and with the compassion it is so often accused of lacking, Wall Street’s top CEO’s and bankers rallied to the aid Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein, announcing a weekend fundraising telethon for the industry trailblazer in the aftermath of his devastating 2009...
The Dada Manifesto
by Hugo Ball, 1916
mur takik (an excerpt):
I shall be reading poems that are meant to dispense with conventional language, no less, and to have done with it. Dada Johann Fuchsgang Goethe. Dada Stendhal. Dada Dalai Lama, Buddha, Bible, and Nietzsche. Dada m’dada. Dada mhm dada da. It’s a question of connections, and of loosening them up a bit to start with. I don’t want words...
Thinking of a Career Change
If this whole writer thing doesn’t work out, Facebook has some cool suggestions:
Senate Republicans Refuse To Call Deli
For about nine months, starting in early 2008, I ran a political satire site called ReallySeriousNews.com. As I graduated college and entered the real world, this was my pride and joy, and I loved it and took it seriously and worked my ass off on it. Then came the real world, and as President Obama got elected, I more or less shut down RSN.
Looking for another creative outlet, and still angry...
Dem. senators spent weekend with bank, energy,... →
I’m a Democrat, for lack of a better big party, not because I’m proud of the things many in my party do. I wonder how difficult it is to make promises from one side of your mouth and shove corporate cash-bought caviar in the other.
Twelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, and other corporate interests that they often...