January 2009
52 posts
U R JERRY ND JERRY IS U →
This came up on Deadspin’s Deleted Scenes today. Is it a joke? Is it real? I refuse to believe the latter. Either way, fuck it. The internet has ended. Go home.
The New Look
As a product of my boredom and the fact that I was not needed at work today, I decided to do the all-important job of making this site cleaner and nicer to look at. Of course, if you’re reading this through some kind of a feed (Tumblr dashboard or Facebook), you won’t even see it. If you can see it, though, I hope you like it.
(I’m reading this over and I can’t help but...
Looking for D'Angelo or Tay Tiggs look alike →
I’m guessing they meant Taye Diggs, who appeared in the classic Christian Bale movie Equilibrium. But really, sarcastic men need not apply? Damn it.
The NY Times: Gold Standard of American...
Uh, this is a poem I call “New York Times”. New York Times. / New York Times. / You think you’re better than us? / Us? / U-S? / USA? / No Way. Thank you.
- Coach McGuirk
I can’t tell you how much enlightment and joy I got, for entirely different reasons, from two Times articles in the past couple of days. The first is an everyman success story about the spread of a...
The Interview
Things went pretty well with the Teaching Fellows, or so I think.
After having a brain cramp and not being able to find the right subway, despite the fact I’ve been to New York City about 40 times in the past three months (or so it feels like), I got to the building just in time, getting to the room at 4:35. There were two tests - one math, and one that required us to proofread an essay...
Political Punch: Under Fire from Obama... →
The arrogance of these people is absolutely astounding. The fact that they couldn’t possibly see the problem with buying a luxury jet, without someone in the Obama administration calling them to tell them to “fix it”, makes it look very much like the spoiled rich kids running Citigroup just don’t get it. And you wonder why they’re going bankrupt? If the Mets make the...
Late Night with Tino!
For dinner on Monday, I had:
A cheeseburger
4 Chicken McNuggets
A large Big Mac Value Meal
After having an Oreo McFlurry (the superior kind of McFlurry) for dessert, I took a break and then laid waste to the family’s McDonald’s leftovers:
10 more McNuggets
Another cheeseburger
I don’t want to know what my calorie count today was.
I also just got tagged in one of those...
The First Eleven Days of Burris →
Cheers rang out the entire length of Roland Burris’s living room, which is his house’s largest room by square footage, though is not so long in any one dimension as his first floor hallway. It was a long and arduous journey that brought Burris to office in our nation’s darkest hour, requiring more than two weeks of TV interviews and dozens of telephone conversations with people...
It’s Always Sunny In Medford #9 →
The NHL All-Star Game is tonight!!!!
Oh man! And it’d be sweet if I could watch my boy Henrik Lundqvist you know, actually play in it, but alas, I don’t have Versus!
Thanks Gary Bettman!!!!!
Man In The Box
Today’s discovery is that Alice In Chains might be my favorite workout music, at least when I’m doing weights. I’m not a workout junkie or anything, but it puts me in the right frame of mind. My introduction to the band was their Greatest Hits CD and I’m not exaggerating when I say the first 5 tracks made me want to run through a wall.
Want to stick your head in the clouds...
Valentine's Day Commercials
Really? We’re starting early with this shit? It isn’t for another three weeks. Don’t make me start drinking already.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Watched it tonight and really enjoyed it. Lots of awesome video footage and personal accounts about Strummer from people who knew him from his early days through his pinnacle with The Clash and towards the end with the Mescaleros. This was not a hero worship piece. He was not one dimensional and he didn’t treat many in his life well, and until he grew older and mellowed out, he threw himself...
Advice Dog, again? →
The NFC East is better than your division. →
An Observation About Karaoke
I know this is a big day and I would hate to lessen it with a relatively trivial self-analysis, but I firmly believe that my singing ability improves in direct proportion to how much alcohol is in my bloodstream. It’s possible that I have this impression because I’m simply unable to realize how terrible I sound under those circumstances, but I’m unwilling to acknowledge that...
“Hey, man, I never could think that a song of mine could be written as a death...”
– Joe Strummer, when told “Rock The Casbah” was inscripted on a bomb used during the 1991 Gulf War. America: missing irony since the Reagan era (for more on this, see “Born In The USA”).
Manchester City: Now the exact opposite of the... →
Surprise!
Gennady: i tried to read a russian history bok
Gennady: i am still illiterate
Gennady: also from what i read
Gennady: it seemed to be propaganda because every other word was soviet or amazing
I wonder who signed me up? →
Project Upstream FTL
LaserBasedCoho: The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.
luapula: bible?
LaserBasedCoho: Written by man to suit the needs of man
LaserBasedCoho: Yes your statment is Isaiah 53:4 if I recall
luapula: why a bible quote?
LaserBasedCoho: that is what you sent me
LaserBasedCoho: [11:50] drearysalmon: Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
luapula: wasn't me. I guess you know what the cohos are?
LaserBasedCoho: It was you... I do not know you and that is what you IM;ed me
LaserBasedCoho: cohos
luapula: project upstream?
luapula: I don't IM anyone I don't know
LaserBasedCoho: then you need to scan your PC, you have a trojin sending span to randon people
LaserBasedCoho: because this poped up out of no where
LaserBasedCoho: [11:50] drearysalmon: Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
luapula: who are you?
LaserBasedCoho: I am a random person that you just spammed... I mean no harm, but I was sitting here working and your IM poped up with the thing I pasted above
luapula: oh I know you mean no harm
luapula: google these screen names
luapula: theyre designed to get you to IM a random person
LaserBasedCoho: If you did not do it, then you have something on your PC, and it is spamming bible verses
LaserBasedCoho: Google what screen names?
LaserBasedCoho: You have done it before...
LaserBasedCoho: http://dred1367.livejournal.com/112096.html
luapula: google project upstream
luapula: its a really badly executed social networking experiment
luapula: they reuse names for different people
LaserBasedCoho: So who are you?
luapula: I'm Tino
LaserBasedCoho: So why did YOU send me a IM, and what on your PC did?
luapula: nothing on my PC did
luapula: it took my screen name from a list online
luapula: and masked it
LaserBasedCoho: has this happened to you before?
LaserBasedCoho: how do you know about this
luapula: it has
luapula: because I did some research
I do not understand the following Adult Swim...
Superjail
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Tim’s and Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job
Xavier: Renegade Angel
Both of the Tim and Eric created shows have their moments - I like the work of John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule - but I don’t really laugh most of the time. I’ve probably seen every episode of the other two now and they just…aren’t very good. Not that I...
Well, so much for trading Eddy Curry.
During a fit of boredom Monday night, and not long after the Knicks game had wrappped up, I (along with probably a thousand other people) e-mailed a tip to Deadspin. I felt compelled to do so after a friend linked me to the disturbing/gross/hilariously awful story of the lawsuit being filed against Knicks center-in-absentia Eddy Curry:
I wanted to say that I probably won’t be reading your...
Probably not a good sign.
The phrase “danilo gallinari bust” brings up about 5,380 results on Google. Meanwhile, Eric Gordon is averaging 22.3 a game this month for the Clippers.
Here’s hoping I’m wrong and Mike D’Antoni is right, but somehow I don’t have much faith.
I guess 'washed up' was mean, but still...
Ralph: way to go arod, rumor has it he's dating kate hudson now
Tino: lol
Tino: washed up hollywood starlets, awwwright
Ralph: hey she's still hot
Tino: I guess she's Almost Famous now
Tino: LOL
Tino: SEE WHAT I DID
Ralph: oh no you didn't
Ralph: oh no
Joe the Plumber, Lord of the Stupid, sets... →
(via cajunboy)
Why is anybody still asking this man for his opinion? What did he contribute to this country? What does he add to the conversation, other than a being a walking parody of the Sarah Palin “know-nothing” revolution that took place in 2008 (one that was thankfully put down until at least 2012)?
Can somebody please tell me?
The fact that the media allowed this bombastic,...
Why?
Why do the Giants throw three times after starting with a 1st and 5? Why does John Carney pick today to start missing kicks? Why is there a real chance of an Eagles-Ravens Super Bowl and my head literally exploding?
I watched the game at a bar with a friend today and thought the entire way through that the Giants would find a way to pull it out, up the end of the fourth quarter. False optimism, I...
Dear Pitchfork,
I just spent a whopping 10 minutes on your website, and I now want to smash my face through a window and swear off listening to music forever.
Yours Truly,
Me
“Stop having a boring tuna, stop having a boring life…you’re gonna...”
– Slap Chop infomercial. Because nothing sucks the joy out of life more than boring tuna.
Food coma dreams only pose further questions!
After falling asleep this evening as the result of a food coma from eating McDonald’s, and right before I woke up from said food coma, I had the following dream:
I was substitute teaching at Longwood Middle School. When I entered the building, a child tried talking my notebook, which I had to wrestle away from him with great difficulty, much to the amusement of the other children. As I...
