September 2008
12 posts
Blaine begins upside-down stunt →
“US illusionist David Blaine has begun another endurance challenge - hanging upside down for almost three days…”
In related news, nobody much cares for the increasingly ridiculous shit that David Blaine continues to bother us with. I liked him a lot better when he was busting out innovative card tricks with the occasional levitation thrown in for variety. These days, he seems...
forget twitter
I’ve sacrificed so much yet received so little, and so now I must finally do the honourable thing and shut down my Twitter account. Over the course of a year I have quietly filed away nearly 250 useless updates and, needless to say, the world has scarcely benefited from my spastic bursts of wit and wisdom.
As for why I’ve decided to abandon Twitter, let’s just say that I’m having an increasingly...
politics & the personal
mills:
No, what I hate about politics is that it is antithetical to the personal: to the local arena of human compassion and action that has actual transformative power. In massing humans, politics reduces their humanity and transforms them into expressions of ideologies and systems. It takes what is real and makes it facile, reductive, and subordinate […]
I do not like the world of...
Calm now
lonelysandwich:
There’s a sense that people sympathetic to the cause are starting to get nervous post-RNC, and are calling out for a change of tactic - one in which our side plays dirty, to win at all costs with so much at stake.
This fear that we’re letting it slip away, once again, when it matters most and when our chances are best has even gotten the better of me. And I like to think I’m...
ben:
Hard n’ Phirm cover a bunch of Radiohead...
Timely Wisdom from Merlin Mann →
“What makes you feel less bored soon makes you into an addict. What makes you feel less vulnerable can easily turn you into a dick. And the things that are meant to make you feel more connected today often turn out to be insubstantial time sinks — empty, programmatic encouragements to groom and refine your personality while sitting alone at a screen…
“What worries me are the...
the onion
I love the Onion. And what I love most about the Onion is that the headlines are usually just as funny as the stories themselves. In fact, like most items in my feedreader, I rarely advance beyond the headlines, choosing instead to fill in the blanks myself. Recently, two headlines caught my eye:
Pedophile Nervous For First Day Of School
“Worried about meeting new children and making...
