April 2008
6 posts
Priest carried aloft by balloons missing -... →
I don’t really have much to say about this. The headline is really all you need to know.
BBC NEWS | Americas | NY tower plans found in... →
What asshole managed to toss out confidential plans to Freedom Tower? What was he reading it over lunch at Panera or something? How do those plans even make their way out into daylight? To quite Samir Nagonnaworkhereanymore, “this is horrible…this idea.” As an aside, Freedom Tower? Really? That’s what we’re calling the tallest building in the U.S.? What will the...
The Democratic candidates met tonight for their 21st televised debate. Think about that for a moment. 21 debates. In the primaries. Some of them were so utterly futile they amounted to children bickering over the last slice of pizza at the kiddy table. Some time ago, during the Wisconsin primary I believe, Obama said he was going to cut back on the number of debates he participates in and focus on...
The Braves
I love baseball. It provides solid sports entertainment for over half the year, is absurdly relaxing and remains one of the best things to fall asleep to. I could take naps to a baseball game for the rest of time. Really, if you put a game on that never ended, I would probably never wake up, except to groggily check the score. With all that said, here are two comments I feel must be made: 1. It is...
Headphones
To quote the immortal Jules, “I was just sitting here, eating my muffin, drinking my coffee, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity.” Unfortunately my moment of clarity involved being disturbed, quite rudely, from my muffin and coffee. Or in this case, Pepsi and sandwich. The clarity in question is that headphones are in my view a universal sign of “go...
Irony
It rained today. I didn’t much care for that.