August 2010
These people are scary.
The most interesting part of all these responses is that they are unprovoked. The interviewer simply asked “Why are you attending the Glenn Beck rally?” The random smattering of answers suggests a total lack of understanding fueled solely by the Fox “News/Entertainment” machine, and the ignorance to accept that America is not a purely christian...
“If you send me into Guitar Center, I’d get laughed out of there,” he says....
– Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch talks
Album Tacos
Fockers in Chicago.
Oh man.
John Wilkes Booth likes this →
Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
Whoa.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good...
– Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard
This weekend’s webcast of the Emirates Airline USA Rugby Men’s Club National 7’s Championship. A fantastic game of rugby, the version of which will be featured in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Commentary provided by yours truly, Alex Goff of rugbymag.com, and former Eagle 7’s player Jason Raven.
Among other absurdities, the ship has a $60,000 banister, a master bedroom that opens only to a fingerprint and a secret room designated specifically for “nookie,” which any owner of a ship like this surely has no shortage of.
“So this guy’s sick, he stayed home from school. This is in high school....
– Anna Kendrick discussing the worst breakup she’s heard of. It gets much, much worse.
JetBlue flight attendant arrested after NYC ruckus →
Ruckus. Ha!
And what about the economy’s future? Everything we know about economic growth...
– Krugman, “America Goes Dark”
Is she dying?” one of the sisters asked me. I didn’t know how to answer the...
– Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker
A tremendous article about an extremely important issue.
“You’d figure an album bluntly called The Suburbs that focuses on...
– Review of “The Suburbs”