December 2008
8 posts
The Ludic Log: Bizarro Coen Brothers →
“Muller’s Crossing (1990): In 1930s Berlin, a gang of lighthearted criminals run a cabaret/transvestite empire. The shabbily dressed hobo king (Ronald Reagan) is advised by Tom, a dull-witted and disloyal henchman with a florid Spanish accent. When conflict arises with rival gangster Casper the Friendly Ghost, Tom initiates an elaborate triple-cross to set things right by his boss, but...
The Daily Mash: Song Everyone Pretends to... →
“Hallelujah fan Tom Logan, from London, said: ‘I do get very emotional when I hear the line ‘she tied you to her kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair’ because that happened to me once.’”
it's as faraway now as it'll ever be
It is the year twentysomething-twentysomething and the world is a very different place. Sea otters and vicuñas are extinct. The moon has been split into two rocky fragments tracing wild elliptical orbits around the earth. Both new moons are host to nuclear weapons installations controlled by the world’s new and dangerous superpowers.
Your sister the ornithology grad student has a summer job...
The Onion: Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage... →
I want to keep The Onion in a little secret box in the back of my closet and open it once every few days and feel warm inside.
I’d like to think there’s no causal relationship between getting a haircut and getting a real job. But there are a lot of things I’d like to think. And I’m busy.
Busy getting ready to start my new job.
Techdirt: Treasury Bill Rates Go Negative; Loaning... →
“If you want to know just how bad things are out in the market right now, this means that companies feel more comfortable losing some money to the government than investing in anything.”
“[Like] pulling the fire alarm before you go into an exam you know you are going...”
– Justin Trudeau, on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s request to prorogue parliament to stave off a no-confidence vote