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110 minutes of enthusiastic Lucas-shredding and unfortunate jokes
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Upper Darby couple totally crash midnight Mass
Couple accused of unholy acts at midnight Mass - delcotimes.com
Now THIS is the way you destroy Christmas.
Now THIS is the way you destroy Christmas.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Wonkette provides more than mere snark over the stupid death panel issue
Sarah Palin Is the Only Real Death Panel
Yo mama's a death panel. Srsly, it's a damn good essay about end-of-life issues.
Yo mama's a death panel. Srsly, it's a damn good essay about end-of-life issues.
Snow erased most of Upper Darby overnight
Sunday, December 26, 2010
The 10 Best Books of 2010 - NYTimes.com
The 10 Best Books of 2010 - NYTimes.com
Of course, Franzen is #1
Of course, Franzen is #1
A review of a book that purports to define the modern hipster.
The meaning of the modern hipster - Nonfiction - Salon.com
I am ironically enthused that somebody got this book deal.
I am ironically enthused that somebody got this book deal.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Bed bugs done posh
LRB · Hugh Pennington · Bug-Affairs
If you didn't hate them already, this sentence might convince you: Males attempt to mate with any moving object the size of a fed female, including juvenile bugs and males who have sucked blood. I know we are all creatures of God, but some just don't deserve to exist.
If you didn't hate them already, this sentence might convince you: Males attempt to mate with any moving object the size of a fed female, including juvenile bugs and males who have sucked blood. I know we are all creatures of God, but some just don't deserve to exist.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Politics that make you want to brain yourself
Dworkin helps explain why we should feel like utter shit, given that we voted against our self-interests. Over and over: Be afraid, be very afraid. Thank you Dworkin, I was just starting to not hate reality this morning.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
More vending machine news!
The Japanese ninja skirt that turns into a Coca Cola machine to ward off attackers | Mail Online
You know you need one. Via philotex of Metafilter.
You know you need one. Via philotex of Metafilter.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Holy fuck, look at that cat! | MetaFilter
Holy fuck, look at that cat! | MetaFilter
KITTIES ROCK AND DRIVE CARS AND END UP ON FIRE
KITTIES ROCK AND DRIVE CARS AND END UP ON FIRE
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Anita Hill Asked to Apologize by Justice Thomas’s Wife - NYTimes.com
Anita Hill Asked to Apologize by Justice Thomas’s Wife - NYTimes.com
Oh I hate to be all political but this is quite the weird thing here.
Oh I hate to be all political but this is quite the weird thing here.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Booker Prize winner: "The Finkler Question" - Fiction - Salon.com
Booker Prize winner: "The Finkler Question" - Fiction - Salon.com
To read while eating Doritos and telling oneself that fame will some day be ones' own.
To read while eating Doritos and telling oneself that fame will some day be ones' own.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tickling the Master's Creatures | MetaFilter
Tickling the Master's Creatures | MetaFilter
Awesome metafilter post re: the lyrics of Thomas Pynchon, put to music
Awesome metafilter post re: the lyrics of Thomas Pynchon, put to music
Monday, October 11, 2010
Crazzzzy New York politics
“There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual.” | MetaFilter
It would be fun to watch this guy self destruct; on the other hand, on the heels of the beating in the Bronx recently and the suicides, his bigotry is more outrageous than funny
It would be fun to watch this guy self destruct; on the other hand, on the heels of the beating in the Bronx recently and the suicides, his bigotry is more outrageous than funny
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
:::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » Attn. Philly Crackheads: We Already Hate You And Have Begun Efforts To Distance Ourselves From Your Dumbfuck Tribe
:::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » Attn. Philly Crackheads: We Already Hate You And Have Begun Efforts To Distance Ourselves From Your Dumbfuck Tribe
Eagles fans wearing liberty bell hats leads to blogger wishing for nuclear destruction.
Eagles fans wearing liberty bell hats leads to blogger wishing for nuclear destruction.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Think Progress » O’Donnell On Whether Global Warming Is Man-Made: ‘I Don’t Have An Opinion On That’
Think Progress » O’Donnell On Whether Global Warming Is Man-Made: ‘I Don’t Have An Opinion On That’
Brilliant analysis of climate change from the visitor from Crazytown.
Brilliant analysis of climate change from the visitor from Crazytown.
Infinite Jest Infographic
unendlicherspasubersicht.jpg (JPEG Image, 2806x1757 pixels) - Scaled (48%) What the world has waited for: An infographic for Infinite Jest
Monday, October 4, 2010
News: Disappearing Languages at Albany - Inside Higher Ed
News: Disappearing Languages at Albany - Inside Higher Ed This is really, really horrible news.
ETA: For SUNY Albany students and faculty -- the programs are offered at other SUNY programs
ETA: For SUNY Albany students and faculty -- the programs are offered at other SUNY programs
Sunday, October 3, 2010
THE MICHAEL BAYIFIER
THE MICHAEL BAYIFIER This has to be genius. The concept alone is. Via Metafilter
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Nemesis by Philip Roth | Book review | Books | The Guardian
Nemesis by Philip Roth | Book review | Books | The Guardian Ah, The Humbling is part of a bigger book. Still a strange read, though.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Hossein Derakhshan awaiting sentencing | cyrusfarivar.com
Hossein Derakhshan awaiting sentencing | cyrusfarivar.com Folks, this is a member of Metafilter, one of the coolest joints on the interwebs. He may be put to death because he used the power of the written word to challenge the Iranian regime. He is a Canadian citizen. I know we Americans are worried about our hikers, but we need to remember Hoder is there as well. As writers and as human beings we should do what we can.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
LRB · Elif Batuman · Get a Real Degree
LRB · Elif Batuman · Get a Real Degree The Creative Writing MFA: Does it suck? Let us all pray that it does not.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Up to 90% of oysters dead in DMR’s reef sample - Pass Christian - SunHerald.com
Up to 90% of oysters dead in DMR’s reef sample - Pass Christian - SunHerald.com BP killed the oysters. I hope the oysters rise from the dead and with their special zombie oyster powers kick BP in the nads.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Climate change: Siberia is melting
LRB · Tony Wood · Frozenology Ask your climate change skeptic friends to take a gander at this.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Noted Literary Scholar Sarah Palin Tweets About Orwell, Obama
Noted Literary Scholar Sarah Palin Tweets About Orwell, Obama I shouldn't get as much glee outta Palin's antics.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Cover Boy - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
Cover Boy - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com Franzen is on the cover of Time
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Must read: WaPo buys into nonsense GOP budget; Krugman calls bullshit :: The Clog :: Blog Archive :: Staff Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper
Web site: Upper Darby woman claims Donald Duck groped her - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com)
Web site: Upper Darby woman claims Donald Duck groped her - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com) I too would suffer PTSD after Donald Duck gropage.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
SEPTA BUSSES ARE RUNNING AMOK
Foobooz » SEPTA Bus Creams Monk’s
What's more, there was some SEPTA bus collision I witnessed yesterday afternoon, or rather, I witnessed the aftermath, with the bus stopped at a diagonal in the middle of an intersection on Long Lane. Auto/bus pieces were everywhere, there was a guy sitting on the sidewalk with his head in his hands, and the right front of the bus was bashed.
Down the block I head one guy say to another, "Bus ran a red light, then blam! blam! ping! ping! (indescribable mechanical noise). Like that!"
What's more, there was some SEPTA bus collision I witnessed yesterday afternoon, or rather, I witnessed the aftermath, with the bus stopped at a diagonal in the middle of an intersection on Long Lane. Auto/bus pieces were everywhere, there was a guy sitting on the sidewalk with his head in his hands, and the right front of the bus was bashed.
Down the block I head one guy say to another, "Bus ran a red light, then blam! blam! ping! ping! (indescribable mechanical noise). Like that!"
Monday, August 9, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The chick-lit debate: who in Playboy Mansion Hell calls women chicks? | DJ Connell | Books | guardian.co.uk
The chick-lit debate: who in Playboy Mansion Hell calls women chicks? | DJ Connell | Books | guardian.co.uk OH THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS CHICK LIT IS TOE-CURLINGLY BAD
Monday, August 2, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
NPR calls for listener comments: IF you're a writer, why do you do it?
I'm planning to leave a comment about insanity. Here's the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128849596&ft=1&f=1032
Thursday, July 29, 2010
We are living inside a black hole. No really.
As demonstrated by scientists who may or may not be smoking some killer weed.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Arch evil of the tea party variety coming to Philly
Andrew Breibart, the dude who released the slanderously edited video of Dept of Ag. Shirley Sherrod, is coming to Philly 7/31 to talk to a tea party rally about, I dunno, maybe Evil 101? And yes, Andrew, I would like to punch you in the dick. Come up Upper Darby, and I'll edit you, yo.
Upper Darby woman slashed in road rage - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com)
Upper Darby woman slashed in road rage - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com)
Aaaagh! The weird thing was that I was on the bus when this happened and heard the bus driver get a call about watching out for a woman in a Durango. May I repeat: Aaaagh?
Aaaagh! The weird thing was that I was on the bus when this happened and heard the bus driver get a call about watching out for a woman in a Durango. May I repeat: Aaaagh?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Top 20 Most Livable U.S. Cities for Wheelchair Users - Spinal Cord Injury - Paralysis Research Center
Top 20 Most Livable U.S. Cities for Wheelchair Users - Spinal Cord Injury - Paralysis Research Center
Sadly, Philly and NYC are nowhere on this list.
Time to wage some accessibility war.
Sadly, Philly and NYC are nowhere on this list.
Time to wage some accessibility war.
Man Booker Prize longlist announced
Man Booker Prize longlist announced Peter Carey is on it again. Damn, that dude works hard.
Monday, July 26, 2010
NYC to Philadelphia in a wheelchair: Take Three
To continue on with the crime theme, a bunch of kids were shot and killed around Philadelphia, one in broad daylight at the El station at 52nd and Market, which is very near to where I do my banking.
So shortly after learning about this, I go to do some banking, eying the area more uneasily than before, thinking that maybe West Philly beyond University City is just not a good place to be at any time of the day.
While taking the 21 bus to 54th and Chestnut, I feel this tap on my shoulder; turned around and this little old lady said, smiling, in words I could barely understand, “Look at [unintelligible] sitting all proud in your wheelchair.”
I smiled at her, nonplussed; I’d only been looking out the window, checking out the various cool old buildings in various states of decay. Then there was a long sort of conversation in which she said a buncha things I couldn’t understand and I nodded and smiled and she nodded and smiled back.
I’m reading one of the alt-weeklies and startle half the bus by hee-hawing when, while reading a restaurant review, I unexpectedly come across a description of salad dressing that employs a metaphor of the semen of Peter North.
Some ten minutes later it’s my stop and I turn around to the nice old lady and I say in a blast, “Nice talking with you!” But after the words are out of my mouth I see that behind me are two different old ladies, and although they look nice and all, they give me a look that is clearly, Who the fuck are you?
A few blocks south of Chestnut on 54th I find myself behind a group of four to six boys, maybe, ten-twelve years old. They are just goofing down the street happily. But then one them runs into or pushes a really big garbage can off the sidewalk into the street and it goes clattering around. The kid cheerfully sez, “My bad,” and I’m like, hmm, is this some fucked-up-ness with which I have to deal.
They’re walking more slowly than I’m wheeling, and finally I just say fuck it, come up behind them and say cheerfully, “Excuse me!”
One kid turns around, eyes me for a millisecond, and then sez urgently to his peers, “Get outta the’ way! Get outta the way of the lady!
The group splits to let me through and they all say, “Sorry! Sorry!” I tell them it’s no problem and go my way.
Then I hit a streetlight and they catch up with me and surround me.
One kid sez, motioning to my wheelchair, “Can you lift that up?” I half think huh? And half think that they are going lift up the chair with me in it and carry me around West Philly like a queen on a dais until they reach some location wherein they proceed to strip my chair of saleable parts, or something.
The kid sez, “I have a friend with one and he can lift it up.”
Oh. He’s talking about wheelies. Fuckin’ wheelies, and here I thought it was some preface to an assault. I demonstrate a couple. They are lame, and I apologize for this.
The light turns and I tell them all to have a great day. All the kids break into a chorus of, “You too, miss! God loves you! God will help you!”
Philly: Brutal and sweet.
So shortly after learning about this, I go to do some banking, eying the area more uneasily than before, thinking that maybe West Philly beyond University City is just not a good place to be at any time of the day.
While taking the 21 bus to 54th and Chestnut, I feel this tap on my shoulder; turned around and this little old lady said, smiling, in words I could barely understand, “Look at [unintelligible] sitting all proud in your wheelchair.”
I smiled at her, nonplussed; I’d only been looking out the window, checking out the various cool old buildings in various states of decay. Then there was a long sort of conversation in which she said a buncha things I couldn’t understand and I nodded and smiled and she nodded and smiled back.
I’m reading one of the alt-weeklies and startle half the bus by hee-hawing when, while reading a restaurant review, I unexpectedly come across a description of salad dressing that employs a metaphor of the semen of Peter North.
Some ten minutes later it’s my stop and I turn around to the nice old lady and I say in a blast, “Nice talking with you!” But after the words are out of my mouth I see that behind me are two different old ladies, and although they look nice and all, they give me a look that is clearly, Who the fuck are you?
A few blocks south of Chestnut on 54th I find myself behind a group of four to six boys, maybe, ten-twelve years old. They are just goofing down the street happily. But then one them runs into or pushes a really big garbage can off the sidewalk into the street and it goes clattering around. The kid cheerfully sez, “My bad,” and I’m like, hmm, is this some fucked-up-ness with which I have to deal.
They’re walking more slowly than I’m wheeling, and finally I just say fuck it, come up behind them and say cheerfully, “Excuse me!”
One kid turns around, eyes me for a millisecond, and then sez urgently to his peers, “Get outta the’ way! Get outta the way of the lady!
The group splits to let me through and they all say, “Sorry! Sorry!” I tell them it’s no problem and go my way.
Then I hit a streetlight and they catch up with me and surround me.
One kid sez, motioning to my wheelchair, “Can you lift that up?” I half think huh? And half think that they are going lift up the chair with me in it and carry me around West Philly like a queen on a dais until they reach some location wherein they proceed to strip my chair of saleable parts, or something.
The kid sez, “I have a friend with one and he can lift it up.”
Oh. He’s talking about wheelies. Fuckin’ wheelies, and here I thought it was some preface to an assault. I demonstrate a couple. They are lame, and I apologize for this.
The light turns and I tell them all to have a great day. All the kids break into a chorus of, “You too, miss! God loves you! God will help you!”
Philly: Brutal and sweet.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Twitter moods across the country
Science! has determined where in the U.S.A. has the happiest tweets. Sadly, the East Coast seems to be in a permanent mood of "I AM GOING TO CUT YOU"
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
NYC to Philly in a wheelchair, Take Two
To contextualize this a bit, I should mention that I am writing these entries as part of a metafilter project, wherein a bunch of folks are writing how-to articles. My 'how-to' is how to move from NYC to Philly and deal with this adjustment on four wheels. It's quite a specific audience this piece has. But disability issues are often pretty fucking funny, and there's ample opportunities for humor in the NYC/Philly transition, for a variety of reasons. So perhaps this will amuse those of the ambulatory variety.
I think that there is a measure of difference in how New Yorkers respond to weird shit as opposed to Philly folks. Sometimes in Philly it just feels like weird shit is par for the course. Case in point: The Phils fan who intentionally projectile vomited over a fellow fan and two children. There is something quite fascinating about a man who decides that the best course of action,when told to keep it down, is to stick his fingers down his mouth and vomit all over children. I mean, really, what is the thought process there. It seems like punching or maybe kicking would be the go-to activity there. Who likes to projectile vomit on children, anyway?
I can't stop thinking about the vomiter. Yet nobody that I've been around has seemed interested in discussing it. Am I wrong in thinking that in NYC it would be a hot topic? Would there not be debates about whether or not it was bad-ass vs. totally fuckin' stupid to intentionally vomit upon children?
In other local disturbing news that is interesting to contemplate, some arsonist torched a children's playground in Camden, melting the slides and swings and everything into a puddle of plastic.
I am opposed to arson. However, if one was an arsonist, why would one choose to melt a child's slide? I am opposed to arson, but if one was an arsonist, why not go after the gazillion BP stations in the area? I am opposed to arson, but wouldn't the torching of a gas station, with the accompanying giant fireballs of burning gasoline, be more satisfying then melting a child's slide?
Maybe whoever did it just really loooooooved watching plastic slides melt. I can think of no other motivation.
I think that there is a measure of difference in how New Yorkers respond to weird shit as opposed to Philly folks. Sometimes in Philly it just feels like weird shit is par for the course. Case in point: The Phils fan who intentionally projectile vomited over a fellow fan and two children. There is something quite fascinating about a man who decides that the best course of action,when told to keep it down, is to stick his fingers down his mouth and vomit all over children. I mean, really, what is the thought process there. It seems like punching or maybe kicking would be the go-to activity there. Who likes to projectile vomit on children, anyway?
I can't stop thinking about the vomiter. Yet nobody that I've been around has seemed interested in discussing it. Am I wrong in thinking that in NYC it would be a hot topic? Would there not be debates about whether or not it was bad-ass vs. totally fuckin' stupid to intentionally vomit upon children?
In other local disturbing news that is interesting to contemplate, some arsonist torched a children's playground in Camden, melting the slides and swings and everything into a puddle of plastic.
I am opposed to arson. However, if one was an arsonist, why would one choose to melt a child's slide? I am opposed to arson, but if one was an arsonist, why not go after the gazillion BP stations in the area? I am opposed to arson, but wouldn't the torching of a gas station, with the accompanying giant fireballs of burning gasoline, be more satisfying then melting a child's slide?
Maybe whoever did it just really loooooooved watching plastic slides melt. I can think of no other motivation.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
NYC to Philly in a wheelchair. Take One
It's been as hot as hell, as my sister in law says, so it is, yes. Bought an air conditioner for the first time in decades. It (the AC) is really fucking loud. Glad it doesn't sound broken-loud, or I'd be worrying about whether I'd broken it in the amazingly stupid trip I'd taken it on from the bed to the wheelchair, in the wheelchair across the room to the window.
Is there NYC-ish stoop culture in Upper Darby? There's a bit o' action on Long Lane, but not much. I've seen some gaggles of youth, although they seem to be really quiet and doing a lot of texting on their cell phones.
In addition to being hot as hell it has rained. Rain and rain and rain and rain.
The most wonderful thing in Upper Darby, as far as I am concerned, is H-Mart. Try the marinated chicken! It's brilliant!
Biggest bummer ever in the hood happened a few days ago -- dead cat on the sidewalk, same markings as my cat Trudles. Made me think of the number of cats I see outside (many) here vs. NYC (only the occasional, lost looking one). Long Lane gets as much traffic as many a street in NYC; don't see why people don't care for their animals. Indoor cat. Say it with me.
One not significant but noticeable difference in my life has to do with the disposal of trash. Last apartment in NYC: Garbage chute ten feet from apartment, would throw my trash out wearing stained sweats and my hair wild. Second to last apartment: Flung bags of garbage out of lobby exit into a dumpster that was a few feet away. Upper Darby apartment: Balance bags of garbage on lap, go down a hill, through a big puddle if it's been raining, wrench open this rusty iron door on the side of the dumpster and hope that rancid whatever won't come steaming out, and throw trash in.
My life! The panting drama!
Is there NYC-ish stoop culture in Upper Darby? There's a bit o' action on Long Lane, but not much. I've seen some gaggles of youth, although they seem to be really quiet and doing a lot of texting on their cell phones.
In addition to being hot as hell it has rained. Rain and rain and rain and rain.
The most wonderful thing in Upper Darby, as far as I am concerned, is H-Mart. Try the marinated chicken! It's brilliant!
Biggest bummer ever in the hood happened a few days ago -- dead cat on the sidewalk, same markings as my cat Trudles. Made me think of the number of cats I see outside (many) here vs. NYC (only the occasional, lost looking one). Long Lane gets as much traffic as many a street in NYC; don't see why people don't care for their animals. Indoor cat. Say it with me.
One not significant but noticeable difference in my life has to do with the disposal of trash. Last apartment in NYC: Garbage chute ten feet from apartment, would throw my trash out wearing stained sweats and my hair wild. Second to last apartment: Flung bags of garbage out of lobby exit into a dumpster that was a few feet away. Upper Darby apartment: Balance bags of garbage on lap, go down a hill, through a big puddle if it's been raining, wrench open this rusty iron door on the side of the dumpster and hope that rancid whatever won't come steaming out, and throw trash in.
My life! The panting drama!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
राम्ब्लिंग फिल्ली थौघ्ट्स
The rain is coming down in torrents; hopefully it'll wash the fucking mountains of snow away. Am juggling errands, work, looking for summer work, querying one novel, and chopping away at two WIPs. I don't really mind being fractured in this particular way; it makes life more entertaining.
More snow in the forecast: Could this be SNOWPOCALYPSE, the sequel? Only the weatherpeople know.
More snow in the forecast: Could this be SNOWPOCALYPSE, the sequel? Only the weatherpeople know.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
TRYING TO HELP HER hook
Natalia, a twenty-something attorney for the poor in New York City, has three strikes against her: an ambivalent boyfriend, a killer for a father, and her own destructive personality.
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