Listening so you don't have to: Pearl Jam's Backspacer, Sufjan Steven's The BQE
The theme: "We're tired of being marble-mouthed and mildly dreary.
The theme: "We're tired of being marble-mouthed and mildly dreary.
Look, I get it. I'm racist, you're racist, the GOP is racist, Obama is racist, Twitter's racist...perhaps we're all, as Avenue Q informed us, a little bit racist. In fact, I think it's pretty safe to say that everything is racist.
That he is. For example, he's made a real difference in my sleep patterns, as terrifying visions of the exploits he detailed to a chap next to him (don't actually click this, you don't want to know what Duvall does in his spare time) have kept me clutching my pillows in fear of stairway-induced leakage. But his tales of such minor indiscretions such as, say, having sexual relations with a series of lobbyists with little regard for his wife or the whole, "Hey, you might not want to have sex with people trying to persuade you to do things," tenant of government, weren't true! No sir, for as you can read on his amazing one-page website... "I want to make it clear that my decision to resign is in no way an admission that I had an affair or affairs. My offense was engaging in inappropriate story-telling and I regret my language and choice of words.
Welcome to Congress. Oh, you thought this was going to be something condemning Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's health care address last night?
UPDATE: Well isn't that appropriate? The liveblog didn't happen, since I was in a meeting for a huge chunk of the speech.
Junior quarterback Scott Riddle is best known to the Elon Phoenix fans as the leader of the team. The man who takes the snap and calls the plays.
With his most recent catch, senior wide receiver Terrell Hudgins reached 100 receiving yards before the first quarter ended against Davidson- the 19th time that this has happened in his college football career.
In a new pre-game tactic in college football, both teams in their entirety now walk out to the center of the field to shake hands with their opponent.
The gauntlet has been thrown, the faces have been besmirched with soft, white gloves, the noses have been pinched and the spit has flown both ways.
Keep your kids out of school. And if you are a kid, keep yourself far away from the classroom. Not only just on Tuesday, when king commie fascist progressive Nazi-cuddling Empire-loving Khan-supporting butter-side-down-eating President Obama will be addressing schools that decide to broadcast his subversive message. And what message is that?
Remember the blog? Well, apparently the guy running it (otherwise known as me) didn't. At least not for the past few weeks.
The album: The theme: "I'm Jay-Z, and because I'm old, I'm better than everybody." The verdict: Go listen to the first Blueprint instead.
Great sci-fi isn’t built upon the bluster of battlecrusiers exchanging laser fire while orbiting far-flung planets, nor is it initially constructed with an ornate, complex back-story with confounding names and outlandish technological advancements. Great sci-fi hinges upon changing just a few major elements in the universe the visionary is creating, and then observing and analyzing natural human responses to these strange and wondrous alterations.
Many apologies to any and all readers...lengthy vacations tend to put a damper on blogging content. But now we're back in action!
Pam Richter Right now, I'm sitting and watching my hometown Phillies take on the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night baseball.
"If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, we will eat for a lifetime." So goes the oft-repeated proverb, but it unfortunately ignores the matter of whether or not the man is question is the least bit fond of fish.
Everybody loves Nazis. Well, not exactly the Nazis themselves, nor the ideas that they extol, but instead, politicians and the media simply love to have Nazis to fall back on.