March 2008 Forty-three posts

• 26-Mar-2008
  Finest Bad Movie Review Ever Really, an exegesis of the concept of a bad movie. Joe Queenan’s review of “The Hottie and the Nottie” entitled: From hell from UK’s The Guardian: This brings me to my major point. To qualify as one of the worst films of all time, several strict requirements must be met. For starters, a truly awful...

  movies
• 25-Mar-2008
  Raccoon Hound! I have met Chuck. He belongs to Dooce and Blurb and Leta. He is awesome. Here’s how awesome he is. The photos are particularly awesome.

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• 25-Mar-2008

  
  Desk Candy; Rental; Saturday I enjoy having candy at my desk. My co-workers like it too. The lesson on these Starbursts is that the tropical flavored ones have wrappers that look just about the same as the regular ones, but they just don’t taste good enough, and taste too different from the regular that they are surprising in a...

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• 24-Mar-2008
  Get Lamp via Jason Scott. visit GET LAMP for more information.

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• 24-Mar-2008
  Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers — such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own...

  politics
• 22-Mar-2008
  Even More David Simon via UBM. and previously.

  culturethe-wiretv
• 21-Mar-2008
  Tracklisting: Cover Up and My Cover’s Blown I mentioned making some mix CDs the other day for a friend of mine. I’m pretty sure it has arrived by now, and here are the tracklistings behind the jump. The format is Number – Title . . . Artist [Originator/Populizer]

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• 21-Mar-2008

  
  Driver’s License Party Trick, Goodbye So this year my driver’s license expired, and so I renewed it and I had to kiss my party trick good-bye. I used to love proving I once had hair to my waist by whipping this lovely photo out. No longer, my latest license just has a standard issue terrible photo. I suppose I could...

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• 21-Mar-2008

  
  Dog in a Sack You know, people have made fun of this invention, some even have derided it as cruel. However, I can see some dogs I have known kind having fun. Maybe only for short trips, I admit. And I’m certainly sympathetic to the fact that dogs can wreak havoc inside a car, as a distraction, making trouble....

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• 20-Mar-2008
  Thirty-Eight Today Today I am 38 years old. I think it will be a lovely day. Followed up on some emails from Geek Dinner the other night and I’m reminded that I have yet to transcribe my notes from BarCamp which is rapidly fading from memory. Borrowed the collected DC: The New Frontier from Jukebox and enjoying...

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