Happy Birthday Elvid Bowsley

[ 1 Comment ]Posted on January 8, 2009 by admin in Editorial & Opinion

Wow, nothing like David Bowie turning sixty-two to put things in perspective for you. I mean, is it okay to like Fleet Foxes if you’re over say, thirty-five? Am I turning into the creepy old guy who’s kind of hip that I used to laugh at in the clubs? Am I just a few short [...]


Wow, nothing like David Bowie turning sixty-two to put things in perspective for you. I mean, is it okay to like Fleet Foxes if you’re over say, thirty-five? Am I turning into the creepy old guy who’s kind of hip that I used to laugh at in the clubs? Am I just a few short years away from trekking to Las Vegas to see David Bowie’s new act at the MGM Grand? Do I care? More importantly, today is the birthday of two of pop music’s greatest icons, Elvis Presley and David Bowie. I was born a little too late for the Elvis thing (although I had a 45rpm of Suspicious Minds when I was about eight), but the era of Bowie, glam rock, art rock, and political rock primed me for my (at that time un-named) later punkness and general rebellion. Which I can’t seem to shake to this day. Happy birthday, guys.

It’s Finger Ricking Good!

[ Comments Off ]Posted on January 6, 2009 by admin in Editorial & Opinion

Kentuck Fly Chicken Anyone?


You may have already heard of Engrish or Chinglish, the humorous collision of English and Chinese in language and signage. Yesterday, the online news and information site Mirror.co.uk (never considered to be a benchmark of journalism in the first place) had a piece about a new mall opening in China that is comprised entirely of counterfeit brands like Pizza Huh and Bucksstar Coffee. Thing is, most of the images in the article were hobbled from other sites with no credit given. One of the best sites for perusing collections of these images (especially if you speak Spanish) is pincheschinos.blogspot.com, “La Biblioteca en Línea de la Piratería China” , where I ran across Wahaha Future Cola. They call the company “Wahaha” because that’s the sound their CEO’s make knowing that although it’s not “The Real Thing” now, it probably will be.

Monday Morning Time Killer

[ Comments Off ]Posted on January 5, 2009 by admin in Editorial & Opinion

Don’t waste more time not wasting time, the year is already 1/73 over!

For some, this is not only the first work day of the week, it’s the first work day of the year. In our ongoing effort to prevent Monday from happening, let’s start with an annoyingly simple yet challenging short-term memory test, Beer Caps. Gave me a headache. Let me know if there’s some reward at the end. I spend most of my life trying to forget things, and here a game asks me to remember things. Moving on: in the tradition of Karoshi Suicide Salaryman (previously mentioned as a Christmas Eve Demotivator) Comedy Central’s Adult Swim brings you Five Minutes To Kill (Yourself). Hopefully you have more than five minutes, because it takes about that long to load, and another five to realize the arrow controls are a little counter-intuitive. And speaking of slow load times, some of you will appreciate the Dial Up Kid. Yes. That thing he’s doing is all he does. Double irony: if you’re on dial-up, you might not find it so funny after it finally loads. And here’s your positive thought for the day: The year is already 1/73 over!

Sure. But Does God Believe In Christopher Hitchens?

[ 2 Comments ]Posted on January 4, 2009 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture

Would You Trust This Man For Spiritual Guidance? You know that old rule about how you shouldn’t discuss religion, politics, or sex in polite company? Well thank God the Internet is hardly what you’d call polite company, or I wouldn’t have much to talk about. For awhile now, I’ve found myself a little irritated by [...]


Would You Trust This Man
For Spiritual Guidance?

You know that old rule about how you shouldn’t discuss religion, politics, or sex in polite company? Well thank God the Internet is hardly what you’d call polite company, or I wouldn’t have much to talk about. For awhile now, I’ve found myself a little irritated by some of the more rabid atheists in the public eye (at least one of whom seemingly can’t be mentioned without mentioning his excessive drinking). I’ve always been aware that one of the reasons for my joy in goading atheists into a debate was that if they truly held that the foundations of their belief were logic, their side of the argument was doomed at the outset. Agnosticism is one of the predictable results of applying reason to the topic of God, but to attempt to proclaim the absolute non-existence of something is absurd. Much like saying humans have never been to the moon simply because you haven’t. This idea gets summed up nicely in the compelling book Cosmos and Psyche in a few passages where the author points out that in the final attempt to remove all projected beliefs about the universe, one is ironically forced into what is perhaps the Read the rest of this entry »

No Egg-Nauguration For Obama

[ Comments Off ]Posted on January 3, 2009 by admin in Politics

Although It Should Be Quite An Egg-stravaganza


Unless You’d Like To Spend Forty
Bucks On A Commemorative Egg

I feel pretty confident somehow that we’ll see fewer eggs being tossed around  in DC this January 20 than we did in 2001 (although strangely, you can buy a Russian-made innaugural egg pendant to commemorate the event). In spite of an expected record turnout, so far the greatest security concern seems to be whether or not there’ll be enough porta potties to go around. Like the old saying goes: If you have a party and this many people come, you better make sure they have some place to “go”. That’s why someone has already put together the handy guide Where To Pee in DC. For those of you who are lucky enough to have a ticket, a friendly reminder: no firearms, ammunition (real or simulated), or explosives are allowed. And on that note, unless you already do have a ticket, you probably won’t. Unless you have an extra $40,000 to throw around that is. Otherwise the only two hot news items regarding the inauguration seem to be which bible passage Obama will emphasize as he uses the Abe Lincoln bible to be sworn in, and how the hell Rick Warren got inauguration tickets.

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