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John Riggins

David Wain

My Kind of Math

Pecan pie cosahedron

Adopt a Turkey

Think of it like carbon offsets.

Thomas Pynchon Has Written Some Shitty Beach-Reading Novel

I guess.

They Both Suck '08

Write-in votes from Duval County, Florida. Right now there are two people in Florida wondering who the other one was who voted for Bill Nye.

Also funny: the vote for "Nothing (anarchy)." Why are you voting at all, ding-dong?

The Funniest Line I Have Ever Read in the New York Times

"A full 60 pages of his new manuscript are devoted to debunking the Emersonian view of Franklin as “America’s first self-made man” and replacing it with a portrait of Franklin as a “commoner,” a man whose defining talent was for absorbing, repurposing and synthesizing the culture around him, like some colonial M.C."

Or perhaps anywhere.

The Roots to be Jimmy Fallon's House Band?

That's kind of awesome.

Google Reader Dredgage pt. II

Turns out Proust is funny. Huh. Who knew?

100 Boyfriend Qualities

Stephen Fry in America

"Tell him to tell them to take the eggs out of their potato salad."

--My mom, on being told that Lee Atwater was a principle investor in Red, Hot & Blue.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Lee Atwater was one of the original people behind Red, Hot & Blue, the barbecue restaurant.

Eww.

If you're one of my friends, then this clip of Keith Olbermann talking about the passing of Prop 8 is probably preaching to the choir. Please watch it nonetheless.

Google Reader Dredgage

Hey Britain. We cool?

Wow.

Twyla Tharp on creativity

YUP YUP

I really highly recommend this: The Acousmatic Theater Hour with Karinne and Jason G, a brand-new show on WFMU which features radio plays and found audio.

Oh, and just so you don't think I'm smart or something, here's a picture of a burger shoe:



Ha ha ha

Heads Up

Boogie Man, the documentary about Republican political consultant/strategist Lee Atwater, is airing on PBS tomorrow at 9 p.m.

Dave Chappelle will be interviewing James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio tonight at 8 p.m.

Am I just being cynical, or is there something off-putting about this? Like it's saying, "you're welcome, black people!"

Overweight Women Have More Sex

This is a little old, but I still want to bring it up. I think that Jezebel has it right: attractiveness doesn't have much to do with weight. I lost a fair bit of weight over the past year and was disappointed to find several tens of pounds later that, well...let's just say that it didn't augment much.

Messaging Merriment

A text exchange between my brother and I today:

Me: There needs to be a black james bond
Joe: Yes only problem there aren't any black people named james*
Me: Uh ll cool j? fool
Joe: His name is cool james not james

*Some context: my brother is so disgusted by racism that he not only once quit a job because his boss told racist jokes, he literally WALKED OUT once he heard the guy doing it. Without saying a word or looking back.

My Mom Is Often the Best

"Thank God you were born that Election Day, because I hated them both (Reagan and Mondale)."

(see, because of me, she couldn't vote)

In Case You Don't Like Puppies

"Giraffes," from last weekend's SNL:



And "Sloths," from a couple of seasons ago:

Because I Like You

When Kerry lost in '04, I stayed up all night looking at pictures of puppies and kittens. It was pretty cathartic. And while it's looking pretty good right now for Obama (who I am supporting--have I mentioned this at all?), I have just been sent a live feed of puppies, so if worst comes to worst, well...I highly recommend it.

(they look like akitas, to boot, a breed which I can aver--owning, as I do, two of them--are the best damn dogs around)

Lincoln on Writing

" Writing-- the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye -- is the great invention of the world. Great in the astonishing range of analysis and combination which necessarily underlies the most crude and general conception of it -- great, very great in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and of space; and great, not only in its direct benefits, but greatest help, to all other inventions. . . . Its utility may be conceived, by the reflection, that to it we owe everything which distinguishes us from savages. Take it from us, and the Bible, all history, all science, all government, all commerce, and nearly all social intercourse go with it."

"Obama's Scary"

I hope this lady got egged so much that she spent all Saturday morning scraping omelets off her roof.