September 2009
29 posts
Bees attack crash victims →
Proof that God hates some people. (via)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Matt & Kim (20)
Sunny Day Real Estate (16)
Shook Ones (15)
NPR (12)
The Smiths (12)
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The Get Up Kids apologise for inventing emo →
“If this is the world we helped create,” guitarist James Suptic said, after looking into the crowd at a reunion gig, “then I apologise.”
“Honestly, I don’t often think about the state of emo,” Suptic told Drowned in Sound. “We played the Bamboozle fests this year and we felt really out of place. I could name maybe three bands we played with. It...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Matt & Kim (47)
NPR (9)
Adam Carolla (9)
Jay-Z (9)
ESPN Radio (7)
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Paragraphs I love
Paragraphs I love
This is Adrian Bejan on how the current offensive explosion in NFL scoring can be thought of in terms of a river’s effect on its basin.
Over time, a river relentlessly wears away its banks and, as a result, water flows faster and faster toward its mouth. When obstacles fall in its way, say, a tree, or a boulder-or in the case of an NFL offense, beefy linebackers like...
Jedi says Tesco discriminated against him - Boing... →
Daniel Jones, a 23-year-old Jedi in England, claims that supermarket Tesco discriminated against him by demanding he remove his hood if he wanted to shop there. Jones is the founder of the International Church of Jediism. However, the Force of humor may be stronger with Tesco. From The Guardian:
“You have a choice of wearing headwear in your home or at work but you have to wear a cover for...
thedailywhat:
President Obama Calling Kanye West...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
Polar Bear Club (40)
The Smiths (11)
Beastie Boys (10)
NPR (8)
News Talk 97.3. KIRO FM (8)
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“But I realize now that those in history whose lives were short and mean and...”
– John Hodgman, September 25, 2001. (via merlin)
“We have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big important...”
– Barack Obama, accepting Joe Wilson’s apology. Since Obama is boringly reasonable about this sort of thing, I pretend that Rahm Emmanuel breaks a kneecap now and again when the press isn’t looking. (via squashed)
I love the term “boringly reasonable.” It’s refreshing.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6) →
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (27)
Shook Ones (26)
Austin Lucas (20)
The Smiths (15)
NPR (14)
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Watchthedailywhat:
Red Band Movie Trailer of the Day: The first official trailer for Troy Duffy’s long, long, long (long, long (long)) awaited Boondock Saints follow-up, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.
The film, which features role reprisals from Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, and Billy Connolly, alongside the welcome addition of Peter Fonda and Judd Nelson, is due...
