February 2009
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Bobby Jindal admits he made up that whole... →
(Via mattlehrer & spiegelman.)
The sheriff that Jindal says he so bravely stood shoulder-to-shoulder with “during Katrina” died in 2007. Pretty damn low claiming a dead guy for a witness. But on the upside: fodder for the SNL skit.
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“Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
Found this in a notebook from my (erstwhile) studies at Trinity College Dublin. One of the traits I dislike most about myself intend to overcome is my fear of failure.
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A bungling Australian car thief was nabbed after... →
Aussies do the darndest things.
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The One Word Obama Now Owns More Than Any Other →
Before Obama took office, Americans used the word ‘investment’ primarily to talk about personal gain, not to talk about the public good. […]
While the mainstream media and right-wing pundits obsessed over the word ‘stimulus,’ President Obama steadily pushed—and passed—an historic piece of legislation with the word ‘investment’ in the title: ...
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“ ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most...”
– David Levithan & Rachel Cohn, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (via into, scout, ghostsinyourbed, theforksarespooning, thebrewerpatriot, peterwknox)
Peter, Peter, Peter. I STILL cannot believe you heard this song for the first time on Valentine’s Day, 2009. Your musical learning curve...
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“Brooklyn is always in beta testing.”
– Daniel Sklaar, “a former financial analyst, who produces Fine & Raw, a velvety, complex chocolate made with unroasted cacao beans.” Or if you prefer: “just a guy in a scarf.”
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More older adults catch STDs from the herpes... →
So I was going to tell you about how last night at our lil’ Mardi Gras party, someone mentioned that there’s a high rate of STDs in America’s nursing home population, and how Liz very gallantly translated this into Spanish for a visitor, drawing on her high-school level language skills — which emphatically do not prepare you for that particular conversation. Anyway, I was...
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Yes, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal does talk... →
(via cajunboy)
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You know how some days you would murder minutes if such a thing was existentially possible?
Can. Not. Wait. Til. I. Am. Out. Of. Here. (And holding my baby’s Ramos Gin Fizz in my pretty little hand.)
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“Another kid already?”
– Sean Penn to ex-wife Madonna upon meeting her 22-year-old Brazilian lover.
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“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
– A gramatically correct sentence that describes the pecking order in the social hierarchy of buffaloes living in Buffalo. (Wikipedia, by way of Spoon & Tamago.)
I would now like some mozzarella.
Again: no more Benjamin Buttons, please
thegreg:
Slumdog Millionaire has grossed $98 Million in the U.S. to date. Paul Blart: Mall Cop has grossed $121 Million. Please don’t think that the Oscars are about to change ANYTHING about Hollywood.
Ah, you missed my point. Paul Blart is not part of the problem. It’s also what the NYT called a “starless movie” that clocks in at just 87 minutes. Fine by me!
And since...
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No more Benjamin Buttons, please
With the exception of Will Smith (who is, however you feel about him, a cash juggernaut), no actor is worth more than a few million. And with the exception of Gone With The Wind, no movie is worth more than 120 minutes of my time. Okay, maybe 140, but you’re really pushing it. I hope that the triumph of an unclassifiable movie like Slumdog Millionaire inspires Hollywood to spend less, edit...
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“Awesome weekend, but you forgot about the flat tire that occurred moments after...”
– Andrea, in response to this story.
How could I forget about the flat? Oh wait, I know exactly how: BECAUSE I GOT THEM EVERY OTHER FUCKING DAY.
I once got three flats AT THE SAME TIME.
And once I got a tire fixed, drove AROUND THE BLOCK, and went straight back, because another tire was blown. It...
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A word about Mardi Gras in New York City and other... →
On principle, I agree with Cajun Boy’s thesis. There’s no substitute, so why bother? But if you’re hankering for Mardi Gras crazy-makin’ with your NOLA-NYC transplant krewe, and you have access to a deep fryer (for oyster po-boys and beignets), fresh Andouille sausage and big fat Gulf shrimp (for jambalaya), and more booze than you can shake a Zulu spear at — then...
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Help keep the Mexicans out. →
From the comfort of your own sad little life.
(Via NPR.)
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Hole in the wall that inspired 'Slumdog' →
And on a brighter note…
[Vikas] Swarup [author of the book Q & A, the source for the movie] says he took his cue from an experimental program giving impoverished children in India’s capital Delhi unsupervised access to computers loaded with educational software.
The “Hole in the Wall” project discovered that youngsters were able to teach themselves to use the...
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Desperate times →
Villagers in southern Afghanistan stacked the bodies of two dead children in front of a provincial council Monday to protest their deaths in a rocket attack.
The villagers blamed Canadian rockets for killing the children and injuring five men, but their claims could not immediately be verified.
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