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…of mice and (evil, bearded) men

Right.  And I once planned to make a rocket-powered jet pack out of a couple of fire extinguishers, some tinfoil, a roll of duct tape, and my father’s suit belt.  But that didn’t work, either.

In which I discuss hermeneutics with a leftover steamed dumpling from last night’s dim sum meal, 2

steamed dumpling:  “Okay, tell me this, then.  What if your message is predicated on, say, a healthy dose of intratextuality—and some of those hoping to interpret your text don’t have the requisite information to properly resignify the graphemes?” me:  “What about it?” steamed dumpling:  “Well, who is, you know, responsible for the breakdown in communication in that particular interpretive situation?” me:  “Good question. If you pick up a hooker only

Were I not so secure in my masculinity, I’d find it worrisome that I literally giggled like a school girl trying on lipstick when I found out ‘License to Drive’ was being released on DVD for the first time this Tuesday.

Thankfully, though, I am.  Secure in my own masculinity.  So no worries.* **** update:  Did I mention that I lift weights?  Because I do.

Sometimes, being a superhero HURTS (updated to include even MORE HISSY-FITTEDNESS!)

Laurence Simon has now linked back to this site several times in an effort to make it clear to you (see update 1) that protein wisdom is no longer interesting or creative, and that I am a thin-skinned pile of ash with an empty ceramic cookie jar.  Which is okay—Laurence is entitled to his opinions—though I must say that I find his need to publish his pronouncements and link them

The first set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly reactionary rightwing blogs sneer at homosexuals and minorities of all stripes

1970s, group 1 Three Days of the Condor (1975) The Parallax View (1974) Black Sunday (1977) The French Connection (1971) The French Connection II (1975) The Laughing Policeman (1973) Charley Varrick (1973) The Driver (1978) Walking Tall (1973) The Gauntlet (1977) Across 110th Street (1972) The Conversation (1974) Day of the Jackal (1973) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Vanishing Point (1971) Get Carter (1971) Hard Times (1975)

“Mystery burrito”:  a protein wisdom sudden fiction

     Like any number of other decidedly ordinary men, Larry spent his weekdays toiling in a six-foot by six-foot cubed space, his blandly carpeted corporate cut-out defined by three identically-sized particle-board walls, each littered with sticky notes whose scribbled messages he never revisited—the whole of his working world punctuated by the perpetual hum of a bank of fluorescent rack lights.  On most days, Larry would make phone calls, or take phone

“Listen children to a story that was written long ago…”

Those of you who like to taste your news—to get a feel for it, to luxuriate in its odors—will genuinely appreciate this intimate account of time spent in Ward Churchill’s bailiwick by the Weekly Standard‘s Matt Labash.  From “The Ward Churchill Notoriety Tour”: […] I step out into Sproul Plaza, where Mario Savio launched the Free Speech Movement in 1964. I head toward the GAP, which now sits adjacent to

BREAKING:  “Lynndie England to Plead Guilty in Iraq Abuse Case”

Reuters: The female U.S. reservist soldier who posed before naked Iraqi prisoners as they were being abused at Abu Ghraib will plead guilty to seven of nine charges against her, her lawyer said on Friday. Lynndie England, 22, became the face of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal after photos of her posing before humiliated Iraqi prisoners were published last year. One showed her holding an Iraqi detainee on a leash.

Allegory

This same thing once happened to me—only in my case, the phone was half a meatball sandwich, and the strange behavior that seemed to mimic predictable electronic functionality was forty-eight hours of light vomiting and the inability, to this day, to keep down anything that’s been simmering in an oregano-heavy tomato paste.

This being Friday and all, we’re awaiting a certain something from a certain aloof, 9-banded Dasypus

Sorry, but said 9-banded Dasypus took it upon himself to chew through my Caligula DVD, so I beat him with a loaf of French bread and sent him to bed without any supper. Fucking unrated version, too.  Stupid, stupid beast.