February 2008
26 posts
“MY NAME IS MY NAME!”
– Episode 9, the penultimate episode, of The Wire is amazing, there’s five* ridiculously compelling moments in a twenty minute span. I know it’s a really trite and very much overkill to talk about how good The Wire is, but I think it meets, for the most part, all the expectations that are set by the...
Religion is losing. Thank God. →
“Right now, there is a dropping confidence in organized religion, especially in the traditional religious forms,” said Penn State University sociologist Roger Finke, who consulted in the survey planning. The religious demographic benefiting the most from this religious churn is those who claim no religious affiliation. People moving into that category outnumber those moving out of it...
WAUSAU, Wis. - A state safety expert says snowmobile crashes on Wisconsin trails have killed 24 riders so far this winter, considerably more than a year ago. But Gary Eddy says he expected the casualty figure to be higher by now given the record snowfall across much of Wisconsin. Eddy is the snowmobile safety administrator for the Department of Natural Resources. He credits the 55 mile per hour...
Scariest. Website. EVER. →
And people thought Facebook was invasive…
How to tell you are too used to Chicago winters
A sampling of away messages this weekend: “It looks and sounds like spring outside!” “feels like spring!!! i’m out shooting. call.text me” “This weather is a tease” Yesterday’s high: 33. Today’s high: 36.
A Rebuttal to Julia Allison's 'Deconstruction' of...
juliaallison: I was comparing the storytelling of Gym Class Heroes to other rap artists’ lyrics, which tend to focus on the following: [the rest of her post can be found here] As I have read about and understand it, Julia has a limited knowledge of music. Except when it comes to Disney soundtracks, ’80s anthems and terrible pop songs. Regarding today’s post, yes, there is a lot of...
Prove that you can
The Barack Obama movement is starting to scare me. It’s inspiring that since Feb. 2, Obama’s “Yes We Can” music videos have collectively gathered more than 9 million views on YouTube and have received more than 45,000 comments, with the sponsored video alone collecting more than 33,000. Yet at the same time, it’s downright unnerving that the video of the actual 13...
A little science to spoil that warm, fuzzy...
Studies in Italy looking at blood levels of the brain chemical serotonin have suggested that love and mental illness have much in common. They compared serotonin levels of people recently in love; patients with obsessive compulsive disorder; and a “control” group that was neither. The researchers found that the love-struck participants showed a drop in serotonin levels similar to...
ZAK FM →
zachklein: samreich: Instantly one of my favorite sites, but I wish it told me what I was listening to. Sam, working on it at this very next moment… I wholeheartedly agree with Sam. My speakers were cranked within 20 seconds of my introduction to zak.fm. I can’t wait to know who I’m listening to so I know who I’ve just been turned on to. What an awesome concept.
I hate my VW, part one
In August of 2005, I bought a used 2002 VW Jetta GLS 1.8 Turbo. Two weeks later, my water pump went out. Since the car had more than 50,000 miles on it when I bought it (57,000 to be exact), the maintenance wasn’t going to be covered under warranty. The dealership changed their tune on that when I told them I had just bought the car from them two weeks earlier. Not a terrible deal for the...
If you ever argued with me about some other sport being more dangerous than hockey, read and then watch what happened tonight to Richard Zednik. Dude almost died. And last week Alexander Ovechkin broke his nose and got stitches in his lip, then went out and scored four goals. In other sports injury news, Barry Bonds missed three games in 2004 for a sinus infection. UPDATE: Zednik stable. Bonds...
Jeff: didn't you have to take a consumer economics class in high school?
Lauren: aint
Jeff: weird
Jeff: we did
Jeff: we had to watch a video explaining the evils of credit cards
Lauren: i went to an all girls catholic schol
Jeff: well that's why
Jeff: they just want you to get knocked up and be a subordinate wife
Lauren: pretty much
Lauren: we had to take a class that taught us how to set a table the right way and do the laundry and shit
Lauren: for real
Lauren: i'm not lying
Jeff: hahahaha
America Tortures →
“WTF? Did Steven Spielberg sit down with these guys and say ‘We need to get...”
– CHTV
