…they think meat tenderizer. [insert predictable erectile dysfunction joke here, Bill].
August 11, 2004
Talking back to 80s music, 31
Well, for one thing you can try checking the door when you first wake up. That way, if you don’t see a head you can be pretty sure it was a dream. QED. …Christ, this ain’t rocket science, goth boy. The Cure, “Close to Me (Head on the Door)”
August 10, 2004
Memetic evolution*
Thoughtful stuff from Steve Green, who would never, ever ask for firm tofu in his gyro sandwich. *h/t Ben
August 10, 2004
Joshua Micah Marshall orders a gyro sandwich
JMM: “…and can I have that prepared with a firm tofu rather than lamb shoulder, please?” **** update: “Also, can you tell me if your yogart sauce uses farm raised yeast…?” update 2: “I see. …Well, just a bottled water then. With two lime wedges.”
August 10, 2004
The John Kerry reports from Cambodia (c. 1968) post
update: update 2: here. And here.
August 10, 2004
A Poem from 1967, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (twenty-second in a series)
The Beautiful Poem I go to bed in Los Angeles Denver thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis affectionately. Knowing it has been inside is not attached you twice today to Michael Moore makes me feel beautiful. 3 A.M 10:52 A.M January 15, 1967 August 10, 2004
August 10, 2004
If instead of a pampered heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry were a Bounty paper towel
THK: “What’s that you’ve spilled, Conchita? It’s not that odious ethnic salsa you people are always eating, is it? Soiling my Etruscan tile work?” Conchita: THK: “Conchita? I’m speaking to you. I demand to know this instant what you’ve spillthhphtphguhthmumf –” Conchita: “– Aye carumba, you really are the quicker picker upper, ain’t you Mrs. Señora Heinz Kerry…?”
August 10, 2004
Whack-a-mole…?
Christian Science Monitor: “Did US blow cover on Al Qaeda mole?” Reuters reported on Saturday that Pakistani intelligence officers said US officials blew the cover on an Al Qaeda mole last week, when the mole’s identity was confirmed to The New York Times. The Times originally identified the source of their information as “senior American officials.” The mole, computer expert Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, was arrested secretly in mid-July in