February 2009
6 posts
WatchAre violent video games adequately teaching our children the necessary skills for surviving the apocolypse? The Onion investigates.
Man Finally Unpauses 'Super Mario Bros.' After 18... →
“Nearly two decades after suspending the game to clean the bathroom and mow the front yard, Nevada resident Dennis Rigali, 29, finally resumed the Super Mario Bros. adventure he started in 1991.”
there is no accounting for taste
Back in 2004, The Fiery Furnaces released their second album, Blueberry Boat, to decidedly mixed reviews. In an excessively nostalgic review (of course), Pitchfork rated the album a 9.6 out of 10 and raved that it was a “record for the overgrown part of our brain that craves engrossing complexity.” On the other hand, NME was far less generous in its review of the album, deeming it...
“What if human beings, in humanism’s sense, were in the process of, constrained...”
– Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time
no guts, no glory
Me: Do you know what a glory-hole is?
My Wife: Isn't that where a guy sticks his dick through a wall?
Me: Go on...
Wife: And there's a girl on the other side?
Me: Ideally, yes.
Wife: Who would even do that?
Me: I dunno. You're kind of assuming a lot of risk whenever you stick your dick through a wall. I guess everyone just hopes that there is an adventurous blonde on the other side just waiting patiently for a cock to appear.
Wife: Disgusting.
Me: Well, we don't know that for sure, do we...