September 2008
117 posts
didyouseethewords:
(Radiohead - Pyramid Song)
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August 2008
35 posts
(Hypothetical) Conversations between Sarah and...
Bristol: Mom, can I talk to you a minute? Sarah: Sure, hun, what’s up? Bristol: You know how you’re always telling us how great George W. Bush is for pushing abstinence-only education in schools so that kids don’t know anything about sex and therefore won’t have it until they’re married in that sacred union between a man and a woman? Sarah: [sighs, dreamily] Yes, and...
David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character... →
I suppose he didn’t need to go overly “method” for this role…
A lesson in humility
A couple of nights ago, two homeless people beat a woman so badly she lost 14 teeth and is in a drug-induced coma.
The Tribune writes it as if it were an unprovoked attack, just another reason to fear homeless people in the South Loop:
Burgess and King walked up to Hoffman, 36, and Hall and asked for cigarettes, which Hall and Hoffman did not have, prosecutors said. The couple took a few steps...
Baseball
jakehurwitz:
Full disclosure: When the Red Sox came back from 3 games down to beat the Yankees in the ALCS in 2004 I’m one of the people who didn’t get out of bed the next day. I’m not lying.
Some of my best memories from college involve playoff baseball.
I rioted with half of ISU’s student body when the Cubs beat the Braves to advance to the NLCS in 2003. The local police are still...
It's Jesus, LOL! →
Almost a Darwin nominee
A robber’s plans to hold up a Southwest Side convenience store Monday afternoon took a different turn: The robber shot himself in the foot, got stabbed by a store employee and ended up in police custody at a city hospital, Chicago police said. […] As the assailants made their demands, a 24-year-old employee at the store resisted the armed man, who, during the struggle, accidentally...
“Whenever ten or more people get shot anywhere else in the country, it’s...”
– Second City Cop
“A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him....”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels
There's no fighting in baseball
Rick Morrissey wrote today about legislating brawls out of the game of baseball and letting two players duke it out, hockey style:
Let the two angry parties have at it, and hand out hefty fines and suspensions to any players who join in. It works for hockey. Two guys drop the gloves, fight for a while and wait for the officials to break it up. It’s safer that way.
I hope they do this,...
My father taught me to never laugh at another person’s job. So I will laugh at a sport instead.
As an ice hockey player, I say to the men’s Olympic field hockey players: Learn to skate, Sallies.
“There are worse things done by politicians than illicit sexual adventures. Ask...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
My views on patriotism are much more aligned with Bill Maher than the flag-waving blind cheerleaders who bitch about a candidate’s lapel pin, but there is something pretty damn sweet about watching a come-from-behind victory over a bunch of cocky, shit-talking French men in speedos.
RIP, Chef
WatchApparently hockey videogames have come a long way since NHL ‘94.
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are...”
– J.D. Salinger (via align)
Bears pre-season starts tonight
Kyle Orton gets the start. Rex Grossman will likely get some playing time, too. I can’t wait to see Neckbeard and the Sex Cannon duke it out for the starting spot!
Who said preseason wasn’t exciting?
Weathergirl makes, ruins, saves day
Tonight around 8 p.m. my cell started ringing. Caller ID said “Unknown,” so I assumed it was a telemarketer and ignored it and let it go to voicemail. To my surprise, it was Amy Freeze from Fox News Chicago calling to ask if I would be willing to let her display the photo I took last night in her “Freeze Frame” segment on the 9 p.m. broadcast. I thought for a moment that...
At Wrigley, the tarp came out at 7:39 p.m. with the Cubs trailing the Houston Astros 2-0 in the sixth inning. At 8 p.m, Cubs officials advised fans over the loudspeaker to seek shelter in the concourse or under the grandstands—with tornado sirens sounding six minutes later. One fan, however, elected to ignore the warnings and ran onto the field to slide across the tarp before being removed by...
fuckmetothis.muxtape.com →
Ricky Bobby may have sold ad space on his windshield, but I don’t think even he would sink as low as Dale Earnhardt Jr., who, to the ripe sum of $800,000 in taxpayers’ hard-earned money, just whored out his celebrity status to help the United States Navy sucker young NASCAR-loving recruits into signing their lives away to the government.
“A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another,...”
– – Thomas Jefferson (via onemoretimewithfeeling)