Archive for: July 2006

July 31, 2006

and now, your moment of Zen

Filed under: Uncategorized - 31 Jul 2006

Ever lift up a flaking scab and find that smooth, mother-of-pearl patch just beneath?  Hard not to think of rebirth and renewal when you see that shiny expanse of healing. 

—Which, incidentally, tastes just like chicken.

July 30, 2006

A post that explores what life might be like if oatmeal could speak, 9 / open thread

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Jul 2006

oatmeal:  “Just so you know, if I ever taste like licorice?  That’s probably because the previous night’s Sambuca shots have repeated on me again.  Which means you’ll want to walk away from the bowl and go have yourself a muffin …

the “I once saw a hobo get hit by a Jeep and bleed out” poem (and open thread)

Filed under: The protein wisdom original poems - 30 Jul 2006

I once saw a hobo get hit by

a Jeep and bleed out in front of a

downtown Carl’s Jr. 

The air, I remember, smelled of

urine and Seagram’s and keg beer and

frat boy panic –

—While for my …

July 29, 2006

Hi, Jeff.  Hope everything’s okay.  Any chance all this excitement has the little guy ready to, you know—

Filed under: Uncategorized - 29 Jul 2006

—Uh, no.

In fact, I’m so up to my elbows in paperwork that I force fed the little armored bastard a Ziploc baggie full of Quaaludes—then, when he fell into a comfortably numb stupor, I used a 3/8” linoleum blade to …

July 28, 2006

Yeah, it ain’t worth it (UPDATED BELOW THE FOLD, AND UPDATED AGAIN—and yes, UPDATED AGAIN!)

Filed under: Uncategorized - 28 Jul 2006

Later.

Back when all this is settled.  Once and for all.

July 27, 2006

If anybody needs me…

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Jul 2006

…I’ll be at Coors field, watching a once-promising Rockies’ season disappear in a flurry of bad coaching and disappointing clutch hitting.

On the positive side, at least I get to watch Josh Fogg pitch!  Which—for those of us too young to …

variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief existential regret” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

Filed under: from the protein wisdom conceptual series - 27 Jul 2006

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Everything old is new again, 2

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Jul 2006

Via Hot Air, “Former ambassador Ed Peck defends Hezbollah”

For the record.  On the teevee, even.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Carter Administration.  Or, as the Iranians are fond of saying, …

Everything old is new again

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Jul 2006

Looks like Hezbollah is borrowing a page from the Think Progress playbook.

I know.  I’m as shocked as you are.  Because—as I’ve been reminded repeatedly by a host of helpful left-leaning commenters whenever …

“Annan’s Claims On Casualties May Unravel”

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Jul 2006

From the NY Sun:

An apparent discrepancy in the portrayal of events surrounding the deaths of four unarmed U.N. observers in Lebanon threatens to unravel Secretary-General Annan’s initial accusation that Israel “deliberately” targeted the U.N. Interim Force in …

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