The past is a grotesque animal
Physics makes us all its bitches.
“ And please stop try to ‘win’ your battle with drivers, the laws of physics aren’t on your side. (No, the laws of mass, speed and inertia aren’t socially constructed, they are deadly facts when an Obamba supporter on a bike tangles with an SUV.) ”
Somebody get this guy a Pulitzer! » Anti-Strib: Biking Kills
“ At other times, she had troubles of her own, as when she spoke over the weekend of ‘our neighboring country of Afghanistan’ or when she got choked up at the Clearwater rally, saying, ‘Some of your signs just make me wanna cry,’ without explaining which ones or why. ”
Dana Milbank - Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame - washingtonpost.com
Sarah Palin Debate Bingo
“ I want to buy an iMac. I want to learn Photoshop. I want to plan a trip by myself. I want to meet Che Guevara & Zach DeLaRocha. I want to watch Michael Phelps win a silver medal. I want to fill my autograph book with the signatures of all my favourite alternative celebrities. These are my dreams. What are yours? Have u started assembling ur alternative bucket list? Life is short. ”
HIPSTER RUNOFF: Stop. Breathe. Take some time to appreciate small things that are beautiful.
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Q: What is your foreign policy experience?
A: Alaska that we will be committed to the problems on Wall Street. That’s to blame. And that is what America needs today. I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you. I answered him yes because I have not and I think Americans at the oversight that has to exercise all options out there on Wall Street, affecting Main Street. And we’ve got to get that gas line built, so pray for that. I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not asking me or anybody else to check our opinions at the door. He wants that healthy deliberation and debate with it.
” Sarah Palin Answer Generator - InterviewPalin.com
Wet Pain
“ Well, shit. Fun while it lasted, right? For us, anyways — the elites who had the MacBooks and iPhones and flat-screen teevees and cars and hot water and, uh, food. Pretty much sucked for the other 5 billion, but whatever, it’s all academic now. Ha, not really, because there will be no more academics. Just fighting, fighting other people (and rats, mostly) for food. And then fighting over the rats, and the rotting corpses of the people. Fun Fact: Many societies turn to cannibalism once they’ve hit bottom! ”
“Global Capitalism Fails, Ends” » Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip
“ 1996 – Los Angeles. I was standing in a bookstore hefting Infinite Jest and thinking to myself ‘this’ll kill some time.’ I was a new transplant – friendless, broke, profoundly depressed and also (even though I didn’t know it at the time) in the first shaky weeks of what has turned into nearly 13 years of sobriety. All I was looking for that day was something to fill up a few of the endlessly empty nights, and maybe save me a couple of trips back to the bookstore… What I got was a meditation on isolation and the nature of addiction, as well as a confounding vision of hope in spite of the heavy odds against us all. … And now, all these years later, I still feel that reading Infinite Jest—at that moment, in that empty room in my new city—saved me. How do you even say ‘thank you’ for that? ”
Letters: The last days of David Foster Wallace - Salon
“ He was genuine, yes, and funny, yes, but he was also the nicest and most decent man imaginable—a kind of old-Midwestern-lady niceness, nonpushover decency that had room for tough things inside of it. ”
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Memories of David Foster Wallace.
“ I just bought a new Macbook AirPro lappy, so I hope PCs don’t ‘come back’ just because my fave mashup DJ likes to play Solitaire on his PC lappy. ”
HIPSTER RUNOFF: Is Sufjan Stevens beautiful on the inside and out? [Man Crushin]
“ Xanga is for AZNs. Blogger is for generic people who post 3 times and then quit. Wordpress is for douchebaggy blogs about politics/parenting. Tumblr is for alts/high end design meme consumers. Livejournal is from people who are stuck in the year 2000. Twitter is ass holes. Typepad is for old people. Geocities are for authentic alts? ”
HIPSTER RUNOFF: Let’s Get Vulnerable yall!
“ Being a true alt takes months and blogyears of hard work, yall. ”
HIPSTER RUNOFF: Let’s Get Vulnerable yall!