December 2009
27 posts
“MarkWed 12/23/09 03:42 PM
“Their muttery ironic joshing has a...”
– I don’t mean to keep harping on internet reviews of a mediocre movie that will disappear next week, but this comment is fucking priceless.
“As a fan of the original, I score the film a 9.
As a movie-goer looking for...”
– Fuck you, fuck you, FUCK YOU! Thinking is not work. Work is work. If you shut your brain off, you’ll die. Fuck you!
spacemartini:
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“There are really only two stories in literature: A man goes on a journey or a...”
– I just read this on a comment thread in Ain’t It Cool News and my mind was kind of blown. I swear I’m not drunk.
This commenter on Wonkette had a very succinct argument against libertarianism that I quite liked:
Hi Humber Humber, can I call you that? Let me just pose a fairly simple question. Let’s imagine your Darwinist utopia was implemented overnight. Everyone is free to do what they wish. All have equal liberty, all have equal opportunity. Just like a 100 yard foot race, right? Except, dear Humber, when...
"Auletta wrote a thought-provoking book, and I... →
Your Logic Is Bulletproof, Sir
Just got this e-mail. I don’t know how I could have been so blind:
“December 14, 2009 The Stranger 1535 11th Avenue, 3rd Floor Seattle, WA 98122 Stranger: … if Obama is the pre-cursor to the anti-christ „ that means the rapture is the next item on the menu and we are about to get out of here. If you’re not right with God, we’d suggest now as a good time...
“Thus his striving to create a novel-dictionary, a novel-crossword puzzle, a...”
– This was from an obituary that I linked to on Slog, but it’s important: I think we should look at everything and wonder whether it can be transformed into a novel. A Chinese food menu? Multilingual instructions for a DVD player? The dust jacket for another book? A couch? One time I wanted to...
“Todd Palin, Sarah Palin, and Track, Willow, Bristol and Piper Palin can hunt...”
– This comment thread is amazing in a Bizarro-world kind of way.
"I have learned that the creatures who don't look...
[This person has been e-mailing us for years. I find her e-mails sad, but compelling. Names are redacted.]
Dear Readers, David, former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier from Apt. #301 is sitting next to me in the computer room. He is so incredibly busy that he can’t even have a conversation with me. He told CK—that I shouldn’t knock on his door. This was after he told me to knock on...
The Dyatlov Pass incident
From Wikipedia, via Lindy West:
The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass...