Archive for June, 2008
29 June 2008
Of the sweatiest cities in America, Baton Rouge ranks ninth, according to a study conducted by Old Spice, of all people. New Orleans ranks twelfth, Austin is twenty-third, and Boston is eightieth. San Francisco is the least sweatiest.
The people of Phoenix, the alleged sweatiest city, produce 26.4 ounces of sweat an hour — the equivalent of more than two cans of soda. An hour. Eww.
This is bullshit. Baton Rouge should be first. I’m sweating just thinking about it. Phoenix is a dry heat. They might get temperatures well above 100 but they don’t have the humidity. Spend the summer in South Louisiana and try not to be moist all day long.
The full list can be found here.
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Tags: Austin, Baton Rouge, Boston, New Orleans
This is a cheesy (but funny) video Sarah and I made at my apartment during the wee hours of the morning. It’s an emulation of the film The Omen for Peg Aloi’s class Cinema and the Occult. The point was that we had twelve minutes of class time to give an oral presentation [...]
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Tags: Emerson, Linus, occult, parody, The Omen
26 June 2008
The internet is about to get a slew of new domain names, everything from .pepsi for Pepsi sites, to .nyc for New York City related sites, and even .xxx for thirtieth celebration related sites. Oh, wait…
Finally, the once impossible dream of owning www.clownpenis.fart will become a reality for some lucky person out there.
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Tags: SNL
Someone has brought Eddie Izzard’s amusing “Death Star Canteen” bit from Unrepeatable to life using Legos.
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Tags: Eddie Izzard, Legos
My first ever magazine subscription was to Entertainment Weekly. I enjoyed reading about the latest in movies, television, music, and books for a while but after a few years I canceled my subscription. EW became too sarcastic and full of themselves — no doubt an attempt to appeal to the young male demographic. [...]
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Television // 22 June 2008 // No Comments »
Tags: Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Entertainment Weekly, LOST, Pushing Daisies, Saved by the Bell, Seinfeld, South Park, Sports Night, The Simpsons, The Wire, Third Rock from the Sun
21 June 2008
The Washington Post thinks the fate of the sentence is in danger; Slate thinks it’s just the semicolon. I think they’re both right.
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Tags: grammar, punctuation
Finally! My two favorite things in the whole world have come together: Bill O’Reilly and mayonnaise. Well, not really. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy mayonnaise, but I don’t typically enjoy Bill O’Reilly. He’s not very good between two pieces of bread — white bread ONLY, mind you. [...]
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Media Diaper // 20 June 2008 // 4 Comments »
Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, gay, mayonnaise
A horrible multiple vehicle accident resulted in fiery death yesterday and all the Bostonist could do was crack jokes:
Hopefully you’re reading this on your iPhone or before leaving work, because you might have a crappy commute home if you go by Coolidge Corner. A couple of cars were involved in a fiery wreck right in [...]
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Tags: Boston, tasteless humor
Someone, God bless ‘em, has put together a list of more than one hundred reasons not to vote for John McCain. These aren’t just radical accusations either. These are actual facts cited with sources.
I didn’t make this list but I did take the time to clean it up and hyperlink the [...]
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Politicklish // 19 June 2008 // 3 Comments »
Tags: Election '08, fact check, John McCain
For once a Democratic Presidential candidate is not backing down from the Republicans, in this case the frivolous attacks against Obama’s experience when it comes to dealing with the terror. As TPM notes, just a few years ago the Democratic Party didn’t want to talk about 9/11 because the Republicans had the conversation in [...]
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Politicklish // 18 June 2008 // One Comment »
Tags: 9/11, Barack Obama, Election '08, Iraq, John McCain, terror
Not since the days of Rudi Bakhtiar on CNN Headline News have I felt this way about a newswoman…
She’s stunningly beautiful, sexy, funny, intelligent and, I imagine, smells incredible — like milk and honey laced with vanilla dreams. She’s Lara Logan of CBS News and she’s going to be my wife. Please. [...]
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Blog // // 4 Comments »
Tags: Lara Logan, love, Rudi Bakhtiar, The Daily Show
Now you too can dress up Jesus anyway you like.
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Tags: Jesus
17 June 2008
We’re all lazy when it comes to reading online, at least according to Slate’s Michael Agger. We like short paragraphs, bold, bullets, hyperlinks, and sentence fragments. An absurd majority hates scrolling. Ironically, it is a really great read and it goes by fairly quick.
Lazy Bastards: How We Read Online
Oddly enough, Agger doesn’t go into detail over paginated webpages. I can’t stand clicking, especially when I’m reading an article that’s divided onto multiple pages (I’m looking at you New York Times). He also suggests not to use puns. What does he know…
Not to link-jack or anything, but Agger links to an essay by media critic William Powers which details (at great length) why paper, or as Powers describes it “an anchor for the consciousness,” will never be permanently replaced. It’s for hardcore readers only.
Hamlet’s Blackberry: Why Paper Is Eternal
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Tags: puns
There’s a new official clip from The Dark Knight featuring Aaron Eckhart over at Why So Serious? It might contain minor spoilers.
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Film // 16 June 2008 // 2 Comments »
Tags: Batman, The Dark Knight
“A mysterious perpetrator with an unusual modus operandi and a penchant for Polaroid cameras sends a pack of detectives on a bizarre investigation to end a growing crime spree.”
Tea Party is the latest from the comedy writing duo of Elliot Elkins and Patty Prats — Katie and Rachel’s mommy. Personally, I think this is their best work to date.
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Tags: balls, tea, teabagging
I can’t stand Kevin Costner. I can count on one hand how many of his films I have enjoyed. I’m not over exaggerating. Watch, I’ll count them: Thirteen Days, Waterworld (yes, I enjoyed it the first time I saw it), A Perfect World, and JFK. There’s just something about Costner that [...]
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Film // 15 June 2008 // No Comments »
Tags: Chris Matthews, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Coster, Swing Vote
In 1994, Bobby Jindal wrote a serious essay for the right-wing Catholic journal The New Oxford Review detailing his participation in an exorcism. This is not a joke. The governor of Louisiana exorcised demons from a young woman. But perhaps what is more interesting is that the exorcism also cured the possessed [...]
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Politicklish // 11 June 2008 // 2 Comments »
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Election '08, exorcism, Louisiana
This video showcases every reason why you should vote Republican too. Together we can make America better for rich white people.
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Tags: Election '08
(noun) \fək•shən\
1. literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary occurrences of sexual intercourse; fuck fiction.
• invention or fabrication of sexual intercourse as opposed to fuck fact.
• [in sing. ] a belief, statement, or mere wishful thinking of sexual intercourse that is false, but that is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so.
2. a feigned, invented, or imagined tale of sexual escapades postulated for the purposes of advancing one’s reputation; a made-up story of sexual intercourse.
3. an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story involving sex with an intimidatingly desirable person; a tall tail.
DERIVATIVES
fucktional (adjective)
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fucktionist (noun)
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Bill Maher has a new film coming out where he travels the world talking to people about their faith, God, Jesus, and religion. This should be great. I wonder how many people tried to kick his ass. Czech out the trailer.
Religulous was directed by Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm alum Larry [...]
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Film // 07 June 2008 // No Comments »
Tags: Bill Maher, Jesus, religion, Religulous