Archive for August, 2008

oh, you bet I’m serious

Batman Begins is superior to The Dark Knight due to the fact that BB has deep, dark and intensely human symbolism that TDK lacks. I’m acquiring both films to make a proper comparative analysis. Star-Trek: TNG hit it’s peak in Season 5. This might simply be due to the fact that the characters are fully [...]

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Patience and Discipline

It seems to be what I lack while playing poker. After an hour or so, I get impatient and start playing loose. I start calling trash that I wouldn’t normally play, I get neurotic and fold hands I know I should hold/raise on. Good thing I haven’t had to invest anything but time into it. [...]

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Labiodental fricative? My new favorite phrase.

Language’s Carnality: This linguistic vocabulary interests me, with its attention to language’s sound; I hope it will interest you, too. It gives voice to the qualities of these sounds we use when we mean. And it, in certain cases, at least, describes the manner with which language’s sound is made. “Labiodental fricative” describes not only [...]

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Aural Attak: Apocalypse Hoboken – Date Rape Nation/Jerk Lessons

Today I present the “punk rock you forgot about, but damn it was awesome when you heard it” band that you (now that you’re thinking about it) haven’t listened to since high school. Put your volume up and prepare for high-energy shenanigans: it’s Apocalypse Hoboken – Date Rape Nation/Jerk Lessons. 1. Pop Sensibilities2. Girl3. Great [...]

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Obama picks Biden…

Wait, What?

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Sexual Harrassment Cornbrator

more the engrish! Indeed.

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Movie Review: Fire In The Sky

Fire in the Sky is one of those UFO abduction classics, and it has DB Sweeney and that guy from Terminator 2 made out of liquid metal. And a badass title. And that’s about where it ends.The whole dude-got-taken-by-aliens-but-they-think-we-killed-him sequence plays out about as well as you’d imagine it would. There is a lot of [...]

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tidbits – day three of fall ’08

Drank Anti-Energy Drink – They’ll commercialize huffing glue, too, if you give the bastards a chance. In Praise of Melancholy. It would be unamerican to admit that you’re unhappy, but you know what? This place sucks for a lot of reasons, the least of which is a lack of material needs. America crushes the human [...]

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this perked me up from my funk a bit

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Australia wins first place for best use of ‘beauty-disadvantaged’

“May I suggest if there are five blokes to every girl, we should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa,” Cr Molony said.

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