tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92949562012-02-04T23:24:47.741-05:00again, google yields Fire Resistant Modacrylic Fiber, not us.schtaplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13600535762412953364noreply@blogger.comBlogger3341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294956.post-1172968167091528502007-03-03T19:27:00.000-05:002007-03-03T19:31:24.603-05:00

I am now blogging at DeffoTotes. It's totes better, anyways.

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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arm Originally uploaded by famous!. i waited until i officially had no more readers to post again. why would i, really, when people were all interested in what i had to say? now that they're tuned out, i'm springing back into action. with more personal news! so exciting:i got a tattoo of an oscillating fan.see you in 8 months!

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freudian relief? Originally uploaded by famous!.

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i did disappear. or i'm in the midst of disappearing. and yes, i am:-too good for this blog;-too cool for school; and-too busy living the rockstar life to take a minute to type some nonsense here.hell, it's 5pm and i just woke up!(!) but that's how i roll. please reference the stars on my new socks for confirmation.anyway, what's new? did anybody see the daily show last week? it was hilarious.

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Where these boxes were, there is now just small amounts of trash. The thing about this apartment, where I've lived longer than anywhere in my adult life, is that it gets no natural light. Absolutely none. So the lighting in this shot is what I've been living in for almost three years, is normal. Picture of new, naturally-lit house is forthcoming.P.S. Cat does not like moving.

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poor TRS! the vampire life doesn't lend itself well to blogging. although the bar does have wifi, so maybe i'll start bringing the laptop and mixing in a post during downtimes.just cut hair. fauxhawk now mohawk.it's amazing, really, how quickly one can become detached from the world. must start reading newspaper. when did this internment camp in cuba come about? it sounds unamerican to

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after only six months, we're at the 10,000 visitor mark. if even a small percentage of you deadbeats had clicked on the ads, i'd be much closer to making rent this month. but grudges aside, i'll be treating the 10,000th visitor to a little something special. perhaps i'll let you decide. ideas? perhaps sharing a SoCo and lime together? i could ghostwrite your biography? don't be shy.

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i'm right, right? let's give 'em all homes. this will bring small self-respect! small amounts of dignity!(ariel: don't worry. there's a bonus! less work for the IDF when bulldozing!)

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and they're doing pretty well. it can even get you off a murder charge. Here's the jingle, which came up in the course of an article on the "preppy" marine:Pantano intended to make an example of the men by shootingthem 60 times and hanging a sign over their bodies — “No better friend, no worseenemy,” a Marine slogan. catchy, eh?now, we're not going to knock the marines, partially because it's too

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his favorite is, of course, courage. but i digress, already.yes, i'm frolicking, very slowly and very drunkenly, through this meadow called semi-employment. i'm back to waiting tables, the thing i dreamed about while blogging for six hours a day at work. and luckily for me, i just found out i'll need $800 to make rent (my final month in this hovel, for those who haven't been priveleged) by

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those of us who don't support keeping vegitative women alive against their wishes, or who think that stem cell research could benefit humans have a bit of a problem. if you add reproductive rights to that list, you're staunchly cross-stream from what the former Pope and now President have bludgeningly called The Culture Of Life. the problem isn't being cross-stream from the prez, it's that we

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careful, this may be a spoiler: carrie cheated on aidan with big! big got marrried! charlotte got married! samantha fucked a virgin! miranda is still wearing hideous clothes with no regard for her hair color!see? no wonder there've been no new posts. (schtaple has unchained from the 9-5 desk, and left to frollick unfettered in the meadows about 3 weeks ago. there is no internet in the frollicking

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as if there weren't enough unemployed bloggers in this city, DCSOB joined the ranks last week. i have proposed a "business" venture to him, forming an umemployment consulting firm. i haven't thought about services we could provide, but i'm guessing it would include a how-to guide for maintaining some semblace of dignity in the face of people with clean pants and collars.

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are they kidding us with this? why the tease? really, on second thought, we don't need GWB to take on martyr status. it's really not worth it.

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in a contest that i think may be the most worthwhile ever, dictionary geeks determined that "ginormous" is the most-used non-word in english. of course, they fail to mention that it is followed by "cock" 97.2 percent of the time, but that's understandable.in second place came confuzzled (snoop has apparently infiltrated merriam-webster). no telling if ridonkulous made a showing, or supposably.

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the first-ever megtastic art-fusion party was a success. granted, the "sound system" at bohemian caverns took about four hours to figure out, and the engineer we were promised never showed, but it worked out in the end. people chasing people and monorail turned the shit out, including short romps through the crowd. most importantly, i rudely interrupted laura burhenn's great furry-booted set

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it's hard to say if it was a pity party or a friars club meeting, or just a tribute dinner to one of the shadiest men in the headlines. delay took the time, in the midst of being coddled, to take potshots at democrats. here's the friar's club part. about democrats, delay said they have "No ideas, no leadership, no agenda. And in just the last week we can add to that list: no class."wait, when did

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anti-american protestors in afghanistan have taken to the streets, most recently upset over reports that the american army has flushed the Quran down the toilet, among other things. they're not being well-received. we think part of the problem is their language. one man's sign says " we strongly condemn insulting Quran by american army." too wordy, friends. half of the pentagon is still trying

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from today's washington post. go saturday to join the most important people in a six-block radius. maybe even eight.

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and no, that may never get old. nothing rankles more than when someone didactically opposed to you goes and fucks things up by agreeing with you. here william saletan (william, why won't you marry me?) takes the wind out of ID's sails. okay, he doesn't wholly agree with them, but he shows why we have nothing to fear except sushi.

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i might as well post another. NYT has an interesting article on gawker media, the most successful blogco. in existence at the moment. i love the photo, in which the editors are sitting around with their laptops in a nicely lit space, as opposed to what my gawker stint picture would've looked like - pasty-white, glazed eyes, unshaven.and seriously, kenny chesney? wha?now i'm going outside.

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okay, so maybe my cohort called me out. maybe i've posted twice in the last two weeks. yes, that's a far cry from the six or so per day before that, but i'm on vacation, remember? vacation is unemployment with a tan, right? right. anyway, i've been busy. i've got proof!1. today i took the car (that's right, one exists) to the dealer to fix a broken windshield that has gone unfixed for at least a

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and frankly, you readers simply don't have the drama or melodrama it takes to captivate our poor attention spans. schtaple has a soft spot for whitney and dwayne wayne, and i have a very time-consuming love/hate relationship with carrie bradshaw. take heart, because neither does the rest of the 'real' world--and we mean that in a non-mtv way, non-dwayne-wayne way. we mean it in the

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here's one of our serious beefs with conservatives: it's not just about their continual war to outlaw abortion. that's enough, but coupled with their refusal to teach comprehensive sex ed, it's outrageous. at any rate, the medievalists have won a small victory by stalling the implementation of a comprehensive sex ed curriculum in montgomery county. sure, the guy ordered the material before it

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the intelligent design/evolution hearings in kansas started yesterday. no word on rockstar trial lawyers, but we've done some research and feedback from the right would indicate that perhaps the intelligent design (read: creationism) defense strategy will involve a lot of rhetorical questions. and in other intelligent-design news, god has seen fit to punish promiscuous penguins by raining an

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with apologies. it was just too easy, and it's friday, and i'm pooped. pooped! the FBI has arrested doctors who gave the mob (think Gambino) large quantities of viagara and it's pharmaceutical cousins, apparently in exchange for "various favors." we were hoping this would go the more prostitution way of things, but "favors" include car body work and other boring details, not putting the viagra to

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we're not sure what a movie's called when its below b-movie, but we're disappointed hollywood couldn't find the money to hire somebody better than Texan Al Edwards to star in the cheerleading-under-fire flick currently showing in the don't-mess-with-us state. only this time, hot chicks everywhere are being told not to bring it. texas legislators are currently in the process of curbing high school

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remember how pissed we got when that brownback character threatened DC with his stupid, illogical powers? anyway, it worked. via DCist:Same-sex Couples Prohibited from Filing Joint Taxes: D.C.'s Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi ruled yesterday gay couples could not file taxes jointly in D.C., even if they were married in another state, the Post reports. It is thought the decision was made

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so greg just quit his attorney job to become a fry cook, all because of dharma's free spirit! what hijinx! but then he realized he was just bored, so he went back. what do we learn from this? that while sub-par sitcoms dominate UPN's daytime lineup, the federal government, in cooperation with nuclear dictatorships, is hunting down the bad guys. witness a conversation between F. McGraw and

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i'll say this before anyone can accuse me of flip-flopping: ann coulter used to really rub me the wrong way. but since her controversial, alien-leg Time cover appearance, i have a new-found respect for ann. apparently, she's not a raging, offensive right-winger. she's a humorist: "most of what I say, I say to amuse myself and amuse my friends. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about anything

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apologies for being out of commission past my determined date. but unemployment is hard! especially when one sleeps until only a few hours of daylight are left. "productivity" suffers at that point. what's going on in the world, anyway? i heard the pope died. true? false?anyway, i'll be "writing" from local "lesbian cafe" sparky's this afternoon, so maybe i'll figure out what's going on

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and we're out .50 cents in an ill-advised bet that blamed the husband, when in fact, it was the bride who had a remarkably well-planned case of cold feet. julia roberts escaped on horseback; ms. wilbanks rode out on a greyhound. the fiance, in an admirable show of stick-to-it-ness, claims he still plans to marry ms. wilbanks. we're not sure if the guy is really understanding or just very

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but we are back to where we were eighty years ago. or at least, kansas is. it's too bad johnny cochran won't be around to get in on this trial. true, it's not really his usual field, but we're hoping this will turn into an all-out political and legal rockstar showdown. maybe get a little jerry falwell/pat robertson/james dobson into the mix, with somebody from the pro-evolutionary side who isn't

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remember how it felt to ride in the very very backseat of a station wagon? you face the back of the car, so when the car started moving forward, it was kind of nauseating? because you were really moving backwards?am i the only one feeling this way?the house has passed the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which is not at all what it sounds like. this is not a bill about juvenile

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in a move that should have been a no-brainer, republicans have voted to reverse their recently-written ethics rules. dennis hastert led the charge (or retreat, depending on your point of view).delay says he's happy for the chance to clear his name, but these guys aren't going to blow sunshine up his ass. they say it nicely, but they say it: dude, you're fucked.

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not to get granola-y on you. we're not exactly nature freaks ourselves, but these deserve mention. first there were the prozaced and viagra'd frogs. that was weird enough to last a while. but recently, there's been a spate of bizarre biological news. personally, we're fans of the wholphin, which has apparently been kept under wraps for a while, despite cameos with adam sandler.we know cloning is

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good thursday, peoples. like i thought, i haven't been around, but it looks like F. has filled in aptly. i don't have a whole lot of new news (why watch news when one can watch reruns of a different world? today's was a very special episode wherein dwayne wayne and freddie learn the dangers of sexual assault), but i have learned a few things:1. travel writing about things that aren't

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about their health, that is. we were shocked. shocked! a groundbreaking study shows only 3% of americans manage to eat right, exercise, keep their weight low, and avoid smoking. we think this study is incredibly short-sighted. what guys who lift weights but smoke? or girls who keep their weight low but take steroids? don't they get any credit?

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we're not technically astute enough to post pictures (we leave that to schtaple), but if you go to washingtonpost's page you'll see delay's eerily evil-looking hand. we're not sure what it's looking for, but of course, being good bibleschool scholars, we know that idle hands are the devil's something or other. and we're pretty sure his right hand doesn't know what his left hand is doing.

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if there's a dearth of postings for the next 24 hours, it's because i'm trying to stay ahead of the pseudoephedrine run. target, always on the cutting edge, has already done this; wal-mart just announced plans to pull pseudoephedrine cold medications from the shelves.i don't want to be known as a friend to meth dealers, but i have allergies, which means sudafed, in a strictly legal form, has

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could it be that frist's anti-filibuster campaign is actually just a senatorial i'm-taking-my-toys-and-going- home? evidence suggests, it could be. unfortunately, his toys include wide-screen tvs, pre-recorded video, and smart rhetoric for a nation-wide audience that easily cottons to us/them thinking.

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in a matter of hours i'll be starting my guest stint at gridskipper. so if you've got good urban travel tips, send them along. i'll probably be doing my best to churn out a dozen quality posts every day over there, so it's possible that my work here will be suffering. but not to worry - i'll leave it in the ultimately capable hands of ms. f. mcgraw (secret: the F stands for Fucked! scandalous

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sometimes jonah goldberg gets bored, or maybe he just runs out of people to fight with. upon hearing the news that sesame street is going to tone back cookie monster's cookie consumption (in light of the obesity blight among american children, of course), goldberg dons the sackcloth and commenses gnashing:If the Cookie Monster is no longer a cookie monster, what is he?this is to say, of course,

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gawker notes this bit from the nyp:at least one eyewitness at "Scrubs" star Zach Braff's birthday party at 40 Deuce in Los Angeles last Saturday night told PAGE SIX she saw Knoxville and Simpson stroking one another's hands when the lights went down. "It was awesome," tittered our gossipy gawker [our emphasis].coincidence, or sly source-tipoff?

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we heart tom delay. it's true. who else could make legislative life so interesting by trying to merge two separate branches of the federal government? plus, what a nickname. Staplegun and Hacksaw agree: tool nicknames are the best.a trs informant, knowing our hammer weakness, sent along this quote:We set up the courts. We can unset the courts.what power! what ominousness! what a hammerful blow!

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dear suckers,good morning! but wouldn't it be nicer if you didn't have to wake up this morning, or any other morning?! yes, that would be nice. but i digress!today is my last day of employment. no more 9(ish)-to-5 drag! no more crawling to the bus with a crippling hangover! no more health insurance! no more fiscal confidence! yes, friends, it's a beautiful day (not literally of course--it's

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there's something very strange about the christian right. maybe it's always searching for divine design that makes them see connections where there aren't. or maybe it's just that being god's chosen is a hell of a power trip.at any rate, we don't know if it's true that microsoft reversed their position on an anti-discrimination bill after meeting with a prominent pastor. microsoft claims it's not

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quaintest.headline.ever:tysons could be new downtown.

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reason notes brutally bad timing in the palmetto state:Yesterday, the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee voted to elevate cockfighting from a misdemeanor to a felony. The committee then killed an unrelated, poorly-timed bill that would have done the same for domestic abuse. [more]oof.

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can we talk about the righteous indignation going around these days about ryan seacrest getting a star on the hollywood walk of fame? last i checked, a star wasn't exactly a nobel. pee wee herman (not even paul reubens) has one, people. a sampling of the outrage:"how do you explain a world in which a dweeb like Ryan Seacrest gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?" [wp]"A just God wouldn’t

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via DCist:after DC's attorney general said that "validly married same-sex couples" could file their taxes jointly, kansas sen. Sam Brownback (R [surprise! -ed] ) said he opposes the position and wants to hear more. if he's not satisfied, Brownback said it could trigger a backlash from congress.this attitude may actually make me more angry than the lack of voting rights in the district. who the

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tina brown notes in her column today:The papal marathon of the past three weeks, though, had the paradoxical effect of making the non-born-againers among us feel a little less left out. right sentiment, wrong jargon. catholics aren't born again, tina! they're just catholic. jesus freaks are born again, and hindus.

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and good for them, allowing civil unions, almost as if the homosexuals had an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. not marriage though: in order to pass the bill, state legislators had to put in the "marriage=adam and eve, not steve" clause. catholics in the state, presumably so preoccupied with smoke signals, seemed to be taken by suprise. but now that they've received

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hugo chavez gave away 1,000,000 copies of don quixote to commemorate the book's 400th anniversary, and presumably to point out his own quixotic foibling with the venezuelan economy.

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this thing is good. pretty right-on for a suburban-atlanta accent:Your Linguistic Profile:65% General American English30% Dixie5% Yankee0% Midwestern0% Upper Midwestern

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if you live in DC, this will ring especially true. even if you don't believe in condoms. if you don't, it's still funny.

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CNN has unleashed both dalia gallagher (L) and former FOX shock and awe-atrix jennifer eccleston on the vatican to cover benedict XVI's first days. in light of the new pope's youthful conscription in hitler youth, no comments about the aryan-ness of these two, please.

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to stave off criticism of its use of children as racing camel jockeys, qatar is pioneering the use of robot-jockeys. i am not smart enough to add a snarky comment that could not be misconstrued in some way or another. wait, yes i am! first, al-jazeera, now this? ha, ha! Your Royal Highness Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, you're on fire! (no pun intended.)

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nick hornby, in his monthy column in the believer (which you should read if you haven't yet), discusses the recent glut of fiction about fiction. he read a number of novels in succession that dealt either with writers, or writing, or both, which prompted him to call for a halt:There are, I think, two reasons to be a little queasy about this trend. The first is, quite simply, that it excludes

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voinovich is voting against bolton in the SFRC. makes it 9-9, at best, which will could send the nominee to the senate without recommendation (or it could stall it altogether). didn't see that coming. and hagel said he might vote no in full senate, but is voting yes to leave committee.UPDATE: SFRC has postponed the vote until after the easter recess, which means early may. this doesn't look

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did some updating of the blogroll, to indicate:a) added grammar.police and yglesias, both of which are good.b) also added paste magazine, which is also good.c) talking points memo and volokh are boring.d) kentucky fried adventures no longer updates, sadly.enjoy, and feel free to send along things if i should be reading them.

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RB: All right. Have you listened to any good music lately?JSF: Bright Eyes. Conor Oberst—he has two albums out.[TMN]also, monorail plays DC9 with the cause on saturday. do.not.miss.

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fantastic blurb from new republic article ("What Big Tobacco Can Teach About Democratization"):The [big tobacco] documents, which mostly date from the '80s and '90s, tell a story of Byzantine intrigue married to American-style tenacity: Where rubber-stamp Arab parliaments sought to ban smoking in public places and curb cigarette advertising, American companies managed to defeat some of these

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there's a lot being said about this right now, and the nytimes has more. i agree that pharmacists who don't want to fill prescriptions on a moral basis shouldn't have to. but they should just hand over their smocks and go back to being conservative civilians. (for a more intelligently argued case, check out dahlia lithwick's eloquence.) i don't think pharmacies should force pharmacists to sell

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after a couple months of pestering, i've secured a guest spot at gridskipper. i'll be helming it beginning monday, after my official employment ends. so i stave off hunger and eviction for another week. below is the final confirmation, lest you think i have any shame:TRS: i'm leaving the office--any news? gawkbossman: eh, fuck TRS: jesus what the hell have you been doing?gawkbossman:

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for some reason. from paste:Jean-Yves Tola, the drummer/pianist for alt.country/fire-and-brimrock outfit 16 Horsepower, announced today:"It is with some regrets but also with confidence that we, 16 Horsepower,have decided to end our journey as a band. We have shared some unforgettable moments and hope to have given you all we could. An accumulation of differences, mostly political and spiritual,

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"Founded in February 1998 to distort inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is a crackpot independent, nonnonpartisan, nonprofit, 501 (c)3 organization." from today's dispatch, we learn that hamas is led by a trickster! a huckster! a good-fer-nothing! "Hamas Political Head: Calming Down is Just a Trick Within the Resistance Plan"the coolest part of his tricksterism is

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if you haven't had a listen, the Eels are a good band. they're led by a quasi-reclusive genius-type, known only as E, who left the DC area for silver lake in the 80s. i just happened by their site, which includes a blog written by E's 'mistress'. it's a noble conceit, and plays on all sorts of rumors about E and rockstardom in general. a sample:Hi everyone!I'm E's girlfriend, Amber. I live in the

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mascot-creators have had better days. we (americans) are in the midst of a mascot dark ages, perhaps ushered in by the debacle of atlanta's 1996 olympic mascot.the nationals' mascot (pictured) should've been an easy one. an M-16-toting, marine-uniformed bald eagle would do the trick. instead, we get a pudgy, floppy hatted baby eagle, screech.also, dustin diamond isn't involved at all. doesn't he

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and it was not a popular message. it was, in fact, 'pure hell'. windows broke, and tables--tables with food--went flying across rooms. water entered the cabins. people had to sleep on the floor. as one witness put it, it was 'pandemonium.' pandemonium!earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, giant waves....this here earth, she's a fighter, i tell ya. we hain't break her yet.

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unrelatedly, borderline-crotchety juan cole's rant is well-reasoned (does that mean it can't be a rant?) and another reason i never, ever, ever, read unsigned newspaper editorials. they're a waste of time.

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i'm not going to venture a full apology for britney spears, because she's undeniably gone the direction of white trash in a way that christina aguilera couldn't even dream of. true, she's gullible for believing the what-happens-in-vegas myth, and there's no excuse for her current husband. and let's face it: she's not a rocket scientist. but i draw the line at slamming her for getting pregnant.

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Pointing out contradictions in the Bush Administration's foreign policy could be (and is) a full-time job. Most of them are rhetorical contradictions, however, the most obvious of which being the spreading peace/waging unilateral war contradiction.But every once in a while we get a doozy - a paradox that cannot be reconciled without significant effort, or evasion (or renouncing the law of

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okay, no, that's not appropriate. but neither is this. we're not too comfortable with the 'friend' designate, either.

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rumsfeld was in afghanistan yesterday, and held a press conference with president karzai. the infrastructure is apparently not up to speed yet though, which might have played into karzai's hands:PRESS: [Inaudible]? KARZAI: [English translation unavailable]. PRESS: [Inaudible]? RUMSFELD: There was no mike, so there's no translation. KARZAI: I will translate for you.sure you'll translate, hamid.

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for those of you befuddled by the complexities of liplocking, msn is to the rescue with yet another helpful article. always on the cutting edge, msn (via Sari Locker) brings you the 'new rules' of kissing. forget fucking, kids, you gotta learn to crawl before you can walk. could be us, but it seems like everything old is new again: i mean, was there ever a rule saying slober was okay? did

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CNN just reported that delay has apologized for calling the judiciary 'arrogant' and 'out of control.'goldberg called out james dobson for equating judges with klansmen.clarence thomas and anthony kennedy want more security.all this nonsense is taking up space, and meanwhile, BRITNEY IS PREGNANT, PEOPLE.

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i'm so suing. this guy plagiarized me, after i plagiarized martin walker. how much is my intellectual property worth? should i have insurance?

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warning: don't make politically-charged art.

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i'm pretty sure he doesn't get the concept. his latest entry in the new criterion's blog (by the very unblogfriendly name of Armavirumque), a discussion of Malcolm Bradbury's novel Eating People is Wrong, is just over 1700 words.and nowhere does he discuss elijah woods' character in sin city.

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the president spoke to troops at fort hood today about terror and kicking ass, and spreading a political theory around the globe. he opened the speech with a hoo-ah!, the "proper army greeting." the troops took the cue, and inserted 17 of their own hoo-ah!s during the speech, as well as a few laughs and some applauses. but how does one know when to hoo-ah!, laugh, or applaud? following is a

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yesterday: "Bush cautions Sharon over settlement growth"today: "Sharon Dismisses Bush Warning on Settlement Expansion"ah, our greatest ally.

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when the word 'extreme' is used to describe textiles, it's time to find a new xword.i, for one, am tired of tocqueville and tocqueville-related articles. he wasn't all that genius in the first place. who can't predict things? i predict shit all the time. like waking up at noon on a wednesday is gonna be awesome.OMG YOU MUST GO WATCH THIS NOW.this is what happens when two weeks of news

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you can find it here.

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this is a couple days late, but wolcott did the job that i didn't have the patience to do--namely, discuss the pathetic coverage CNN surrounded the pope's funeral with, much which had to do with bob novak's creepy conversion to opus-dei (read: rich and exclusive)-brand catholicism. go read it, it's full of righteous indignation.

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DCSOB has its list of DC's most loathesome up and running. it's not a terrible list, even if it's somewhat inconsistent. the owner of a trendy restaurant, for example, is number six, and a bloviating DC councilman (not even the mayor for life!) takes the top spot. can't we push novak up a dozen or so? and wonkette is #3 because she can't spell, or check her facts? isn't she a blogger? i do

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as of...thirty seconds ago, i resigned from my "real" job. unable to bear my "insane" boss any longer, and interested in pursuing "writing," i will be free as of april 22. first order of business: an in-depth retrospective with the goddam bitch that set marion barry up.to keep the lights on (ok, that's a lie, they're included with rent), you can click on the ad to the right. or send me $1065 via

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state department briefing, 10th-grade-literature-class-style:MR. BOUCHER: I would say two things about that: One is that we, I think, have addressed that quite adequately after the vote; and number two, as far as the numbers go, I'd refer you back to Mark Twain.QUESTION: But one's 68, the other is 32. How do you explain?MR. BOUCHER: What? I'm not going to explain it. That's where Mark Twain comes

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yesterday, the nationals won their second straight game, in extra innings. although if if one were to check the WaPo's front page online today, you'd never know it. there's no mention. there is mention of washington elites jockying for good tickets, but nothing about the game. most ominous? there is a link to the article about baltimore's loss to oakland yesterday.

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our (somewhat) more serious sister, the quarterly staple, has gone live with issue #3. good fiction from emerging talent, and the art of nate williams. enjoy.

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below is both the beautiful thing of how the bush administration works and how mr. boucher will, one day, get himself in trouble. from today's state department briefing: QUESTION: Cyprus Coordinator Laura Kennedy, in an exclusive interview to the distinguished Greek Cypriot reporter Michael Ignatiou, published in Athens and Nicosia saying, inter alia, yes, to the Annan plan but with changes,

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in a continuation of our general crush on gawker media, we're adding sploid to the blogroll. it is stocked, already, with big, tabloidy stories that may or may not be true.

schtaplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13600535762412953364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294956.post-1112797515126215552005-04-06T09:23:00.000-05:002005-04-06T09:25:15.126-05:00

either i didn't notice before, or google mail just updated to include a text-formatting option. it's about time.

schtaplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13600535762412953364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294956.post-1112796726495227942005-04-06T09:10:00.000-05:002005-04-06T09:15:49.190-05:00

when he begins a sentence with "Because his blog blows", i generally assume he doesn't like it. i was wrong in this case. sue me, i read quickly.

schtaplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13600535762412953364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294956.post-1112795339046331812005-04-06T08:44:00.000-05:002005-04-06T08:48:59.046-05:00

considering the almost-constant discussions about DC's ongoing gentrification (an argument that has even spread to dive bars), it's almost-refreshing to find a blogger explaining how it's done. almost.

schtaplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13600535762412953364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294956.post-1112731074475014212005-04-05T14:50:00.000-05:002005-04-05T14:57:54.476-05:00

sure, there are 6.4 billion blogs in existence, but it doesn't really make a difference. dun,dun,dun.or do they?i was trying to write a perfectly harmless post about tennessee gov'nah phil bresden saying that hillary will have an uphill battle if she wants to secure the dem's 2008 nomination, so i googled him. top ten results? blogs. bresden's official page? fifteenth on the list. mark

schtaplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13600535762412953364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294956.post-1112719038169109542005-04-05T11:25:00.000-05:002005-04-05T11:37:18.170-05:00

officials--notably gonzales--are trying to rouse the congressional troops over the patriot act, parts of which are due to expire. but as the AP reports, the patriot act has created an unholy union of conservatives and liberals who oppose it, and gonzales may have a difficult time. even he must recognize the uphill battle, because he's made some concessions: he's rumored to 'support giving

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