Dec 03 2008
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GPOYW
(Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday, for the uninitiated)
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“ He stutters and says “hey” in almost every sentence. He frequently loses his glasses and his keys, shows up late to appointments, and has a history of spending prodigious amounts of money in strip joints. His nicknames have included Captain Chaos and Stumpy.
Nov 26 2008
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Conspiracism Shifts Back to the Right
I blame it all on Robert Anton Wilson. His Illuminati books had me imagining conspiracies at every turn. It was years before I discovered that they were fiction which was actually spoofing the world of conspiracy theories. But I guess that just proves how stupid one can be when in the grip of fundamentalist religious belief.
For years all the best conspiracy theories belonged to the conservatives. Combine the new internet, a sense of despair after Bill Clinton’s election and Rush Limbaugh and you have the seeds for a wave of paranoid delusions. Ol’ Bill and George Bush Sr. were running cocaine out of a small airport near Mena doncha know. Plus Bill was known to kill off anyone who got in his way, including poor Vince Foster. Martial law and a U.N. takeover of the United States were always seen as impending. But then the conservatives took over most of Congress and the White House and suddenly there was a shift in the conspiracy underground. The liberals had all the good stories for once. The election was stolen, Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened, etc., etc. And so it has stood for the past eight years. And then along came Barack. Now the tables have turned and the paranoia has slid back to the right. The conservatives are in full panic mode and paranoid conspiracies abound. Obama isn’t really a U.S. citizen, will enact martial law, is buddy-buddy with terrorists, is really a Muslim, etc., etc. But at least the conspiracies are back where they belong, and the conservatives are mopping their fevered brows while sitting in the dark listening to Art Bell.
Nov 25 2008
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What *I* really want to see is a PETA activist getting bitch-slapped, or even straight-up pounded by some celebrity bodyguard. I’d watch THAT video!
Lindsay Lohan Attacked with Flour by PETA in Paris (via Kenshin16Battousai)
The chick who dumps flour on her, when asked why she did that, says “She wear fur hat!”
She’s not wearing a hat, silly! Not that you really need a reason to dump flour on Lohan.
Nov 21 2008
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I like Lala
You and me both, dude. Oh, and the rest of the geek world too…
Nov 18 2008
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this is great
Sometimes if I don’t feel like writing a long email, I add “Sent from my iPhone” to the end - it makes the brevity seem necessary
Nov 17 2008
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Maybe he was using the rule of thirds?
A Bold, New Composition for a Bold, New Leader
What a bizarre choice of framing for the President-Elect’s first weekly address. I’ve taken issue in the past with the way Obama’s team composes him in a frame. Here, I can only assume Obama cleared the room and set up the shot himself, or that he had to leave space in the frame for the academy sound stripe (filmnerd joke). Or maybe he’s just trying something new, keeping it loose. For aesthetic appreciation, always a little time.