“ It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you’re dealing with someone who can’t.
I Will Not Read Your F@#$%^g Script - New York News - Runnin’ Scared
stu jones!
I post great things I find on the internet, and type some thoughts. Once I wrote well, and I think I can again, if I write more often.
I have a MySpace here. If you don't have a MySpace page, I don't recommend it.
Also, one day I anticipate doing something with this domain, aside from just pointing the A-record here.| www.flickr.com |
FBI: Test shows Mich. man not missing NY boy - TODAY People
I’ll summarize, so you don’t have to click:
NEWS: There was this boy who was kidnapped in 1955. No one knows what happened to him. Here’s a picture.
RANDOM MAN: I don’t really look like my dad. The boy is clearly me.
HIS DAD: What?!?
DNA: No, sorry.
MAN: Ok.
NEWS: FRONT PAGE!
Ebert's Gone Soft
Ok, this does it. I have to say something — Roger Ebert is slipping. It’s been said before, but never before by me: Roger Ebert is no longer a fair critic. And as he shows in this review of The Hangover, the latest example of his faltering discrimination, he’s too easy on cruddy films.
Whatever happened to “I hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie”?
“ People Who Claim to Be Afraid of Clowns:
“These people (and they are numerous) are attempting to cultivate a cute quirk, but they are really just aping a cute quirk cultivated by thousands of cute-quirk-cultivators before them in a giant, gross, boring feedback loop. Yes, clowns can be mildly creepy. But come on. Among the many things that are scarier than clowns: fire, earthquakes, a guy with a knife, riding the bus, colon cancer, falling down the stairs (it could happen at any time!), rapists, people who just kind of look a little rapey and are standing too close to you in line at 7-Eleven, Marlo from The Wire, influenza, and scissors. The Different Kinds of People That There Are - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“These people (and they are numerous) are attempting to cultivate a cute quirk, but they are really just aping a cute quirk cultivated by thousands of cute-quirk-cultivators before them in a giant, gross, boring feedback loop. Yes, clowns can be mildly creepy. But come on. Among the many things that are scarier than clowns: fire, earthquakes, a guy with a knife, riding the bus, colon cancer, falling down the stairs (it could happen at any time!), rapists, people who just kind of look a little rapey and are standing too close to you in line at 7-Eleven, Marlo from The Wire, influenza, and scissors. The Different Kinds of People That There Are - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
We’re currently looking for a house in Meade County, Kentucky. I have been reading hundreds of little blurbs touting the fine properties of each. It’s really amusing, I think, how each descriptive paragraph is peppered with utterly meaningless phrases. What does it really mean when a house is “must see”?
It seems to me that if I was trying to sell something, and I had limited space in which to describe its finer properties to entice the reader, I would want to make the best possible use of the space I’ve been given.
Instead, I read about how a particular piece of land “lays well.” Or,I even read one today that said, “This home is ideal for the professional who wants to make a statement that quality matters.” This raises questions, I think. Are there rumors currently flying around that quality may not matter? Are there then professionals who seek to dispel such notions with elaborate gestures such as real estate purchases?
“Generous sized rooms” is another one I saw. It’s enough to make one think, “thank heavens the builder had a sense of altruism.”
Or subtle suggestions embedded such as “great place to retire,” as if such a thought wouldn’t have even entered my head if I was of that age group. “Oh, hey, that’s right! I can retire now! And what better place to do it than at the place with the ad that reminded me of this fact!” Or would “great for horses” make someone remember that yes, they do have horses and that they should therefore stop searching the downtown apartment ads and instead be looking for someplace the horses would consider “great.”
More and more, we see words being used that really have no meaning.
I am so right, butt-face
Making up a name for people who disagree with you does nothing to legitimize your viewpoint; ad hominem attacks are universally considered a logical fallacy.
Gerry Canavan: Grown-Up Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes, as imagined in 2009. This is one of the saddest things I’ve seen recently. My hope for my children is that they don’t understand this.
Louisville Wins Big East Tournament!
I can’t believe it. In a year this difficult, we get both the regular season AND the tournament! All that waiting through the rough 90s is paying off!
U2: No Line On The Horizon
In the record labels’ latest attempt (see: in Rainbows) to combat record piracy, U2’s latest is being offered in mp3 format for $3.99…today only!
Like Radiohead before them, expect the label to produce un-verifiable statistics citing the resounding success of this endeavor. (If you’re wondering how the In Rainbows Experiment turned out, check the album’s current price on Amazon. Maybe the “pay-whatever-you-want” theory is out the window!)
I’m enjoying watching the efforts of businessmen and musicians. It’s enough to make one give serious thought to the application of business (specifically capitalism) to the distribution of art.
But I think an answer’s coming soon! One day I imagine that we’ll look back on the early 2000s as “The Years Before We Got Digital Music Figured Out.”
Guide to dating: The classified ads of the London Review of Books | Life and style | The Guardian
The funniest personal advertisements from the funniest anonymous Brits.
