“Excuse me, waitress…? Just what was it, exactly, that you didn’t understand about my request for NO FUCKING MAYONNAISE ON MY TURKEY FUCKING SANDWICH?” ~the end~
January 2006
January 17, 2006
“After a Particularly Unpleasant Bus Ride, a Shy and Timid Young Gentleman Named Willard Finally Comes Into His Own” (a protein wisdom microfiction)
January 17, 2006
Identity politics are great and all, just so long as they, y’know, don’t get too uppity
From USA Today: Sen. Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted the Bush administration as “one of the worst” in U.S. history and compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched. Speaking during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Clinton also offered an apology to a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors “on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on
January 16, 2006
The new, less “pedantic” protein wisdom: post number 4
The best things about Gummi Bears (aside from their adorable candy malleability), is that you can almost always keep them safely and snugly in your pants pockets—warm, soft, intimately embracing like a den of pied, tasty Ursus americanus treats… And better still—the chances that even one of the little fellas will become spooked and tear the thighmeat from your femur in strips of ragged marbled flesh, is exceedingly rare—particularly if
January 16, 2006
“Gore Assails Domestic Wiretapping Program”
Well, here we go again. Forgive the ABC/AP headline (the “wiretapping” Gore is “assailing” is foreign intel gathering, and not, as The AP/ABC would have you believe, “domestic wiretapping”—except in the most incidental and /or theoretically non-specific sense of the description (and as legally prescribed under FISA’s electronic surveillance definition). And not only that, but it is foreign intel gathering performed under the Constitutional auspices of the NSA (as a
January 16, 2006
My first brief conversation with the Ghost of Shelley Winters
Me: “Gosh. I was really quite sorry to hear about your passing, Ms Winters. I was an enormous fan of your work –”* Shelley Winters’ Ghost: “– Feh. Had I known they’d be serving such delicious brisket and potatoes I’d have kicked off years ago. I mean, kosher salt and rosemary!—can you believe it? Who knew?”
January 16, 2006
Blog Sorbet
**** Add Guinness and an episode of “The Rockford Files,” and voila! Perspective returns! See you all soon, I hope.
January 16, 2006
Site business
Two things: 1) I’m looking for a script that will allow me to display a personalized RSS feed on my sidebar (viewable in regular web browsers; I’ve seen a few of these but I have no idea how they work or how to implement them). Some examples include Bill Quick’s feed at Daily Pundit, or Ace’s feed at Ace of Spades Headquarters. Ideas? 2) The new oversized Cafe Press “BECAUSE
January 16, 2006
protein wisdom: “One of the biggest no-names in the world”
From the “anti-Pajamas Media / meet your presumptuous cornholing bloghost” series.
January 15, 2006
“Things to do in Denver when you’re dead,” 2 (a philosophical meditation / Andy Garcia tribute post)
1. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo 2. snowboarding (seasonal) 3. great fly fishing 4. watch the young and exciting Colorado Rockies from the wildly enthusiastic Rockpile 5. The Denver mint 6. excellent 5-star quail and buffalo dishes at The Fort 7. see the hotel where The Shining was “filmed†8. $1 Wednesday wing night at the Hooters, Colorado Blvd (ask for Tawni) 9. If you can believe the dot heads, now’s the
January 15, 2006
“Jihadis are indeed targeting French planes”
From the Counterterrorism Blog’s Olivier Guitta: Back in October, the French press leaked that Islamists had acquired missiles to shoot down planes at French airports. This information was just confirmed. It is included in the file prepared by anti terror French judges regarding the Chechen terror networks. In fact, according to Jordanian/ Palestinian Islamist Abu Atiya (a close associate of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi) arrested in 2003, a terrorist group