A Description of a City Shower

One of my favorite English classes at college was 18th-Century English literature. I found I really liked Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and other satirists. I guess I just really appreciated a time when people talked about serious things but in no way took themselves seriously. Jeni, if you’re reading this, what was the name of [...]

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Just heard this at the office

Limericks are not that sophisticated.
Discuss.

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Fainting Goats

Who knew

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The Implied Observer Returns

A couple of developments in the Implied Observer’s life. Sorry I was AWOL there for a while. I had a rather important job interview at my work. This would be a transfer to another position at my same place of work. For this reason, I have been uber-focused on work and haven’t had a chance [...]

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I think these cats are related to me

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Quote for the day

You find out the most interesting things in articles detailing the fall of financial institutions. I found out this about failed bank Washington Mutual (WaMu):
“Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife’s parents,” she [...]

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I love this

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Hotmail Stinks (yes, I’m just getting around to this)

I’ve been dealing with Vista issues for the last 2 years of my life, but sometimes something happens that just astounds you. It’s not only that hotmail is incapable of knowing that my email address ends in “@hotmail.com” when I go to log in at www.hotmail.com, or that it seems incapable of preventing me from [...]

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Can LOL Cats save Seattlepi?

Nearly seven months ago the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper converted to an online-only news source. So how’s that going? Judging by the fact that they’re looking to LOL cats to save the day, I’d say not so good.
Today seattlepi.com begins to feature content from the blockbuster site, where site users both submit the funny photos [...]

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Socialism Please Pt 2: Robyn’s Crib

How do Swedish pop stars live?

more about "Socialism Please Pt 2: Robyn’s Crib", posted with vodpod

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Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child

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Emily Post Table Manners

You know you want to know.

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Police question Azerbaijanis about their Eurovision song contest voting

Truly bizarre.
Last month, an Azerbaijani man told the BBC he had been accused of being unpatriotic and a “potential security threat”, after he sent a text backing Armenia’s song, Jan Jan.
The country’s authorities said people had merely been invited to explain why they voted for Armenia.
The two states fought over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in [...]

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Spinal Tap at Wembley

Last night we watched the DVD commentary on one of my favorite movies: This Is Spinal Tap. No matter what Christopher Guest has done since, This is Spinal Tap will always be my favorite.

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I love the Russians

Such a passionate people. It’s like reading Dostoevsky.
The Louvre Museum says a Russian visitor hurled an empty terra cotta mug at the Mona Lisa.
A museum spokesman says the canvas of the Da Vinci masterpiece was undamaged in the attack last week, though the mug shattered.
He said Tuesday small cracks appeared in the glass protecting the [...]

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Being against your own interests

I like the way Eli Sanders phrased this story:
Meet Kenneth Gladney, 38, of St. Louis. He recently disrupted a town hall meeting to complain about health care reform, got in a fight with some union members, and, in the process, got hurt. Now Mr. Gladney is looking for donations to cover the cost of treating [...]

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Headline of the day

From The Onion.

It’s kind of mean but you can’t say that Armstrong wasn’t asking for it when he declared he was returning to racing to “raise awareness for cancer.”

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SC man has sex with horse

Need more traffic on your blog? You might consider creating a post with the very same title as this one. How do I know this? Danny Westneat in 2007 wrote this editorial:
As I look back at the year in news, it’s clear I should have focused more on people having sex with horses.
That’s the conclusion [...]

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Miss the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Sotomayor?

Not to fear. Here’s a fun summary in Haiku via Slate. And a teaser.
Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
What Sonia has done
Is so very impressive
So I am impressed
Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
A wise Latina
Would set aside her bias
She just can’t do it

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I’d like to see Michael Phelps nude

With the news that FINA has banned bodysuits in competitive swimming…
FINA, the international governing body of swimming, voted today to ban the controversial high-tech, non-textile swimsuits. Not only have the suits been responsible for a rash of world records but there has been a Wild West atmosphere among apparel manufacturers and swimmers, all trying to [...]

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I don’t think I’m too far off

Update: The link is too small in this picture. So here it is: MadMenYourself.com

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Jon Stewart vs. the “birthers”

more about “Jon Stewart vs. the “birthers”“, posted with vodpod

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Simon’s Cat ‘TV Dinner’

It’s funny because it’s so true.

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My precious raisin

With the sad news of Frank McCourt’s death, I thought I’d post one of my favorite passages from Angela’s Ashes. The young children in a Irish school find a raisin in their food.
I think Paddy likes me because of the raisin and I feel a bit guilty because I wasn’t that generous in the first [...]

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Be Kind Rewind

While this movie isn’t a great film, it has at least 4 great scenes. Most of the good stuff is in this preview.  I have to hand it to Jack Black. No film is too small for him. He truly is a risk taker.

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