August 2007
18 posts
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Tucker Carlson, Fucking Coward →
“When I see blood, I become a bull.”
– Marvin Hagler, speaking about the sight of blood. His own of course.
A Terrible Whipping
Lonardo got me this book for the 31st - a funny coincidence, since Pat gave me a Jonathan Ames book and Joyce Carol Oates is Ames’ mentor.
Oates is an amazing sideline reader of boxing - her many assessments rang so true they made me drunk. Well, I suppose I mean that the kamikazes-on-the-rocks had help.
Oates is at her best when she assesses the attitudes of the lovers and haters of the...
“Turn-the-other-cheek pacifism only flourishes among the more prosperous classes,...”
– George Orwell, 1924.
Quoted from The Peace Racket, by the reliably excellent Bruce Bawer.
“Sweat jettisoned out of my bald spot.”
– Jonathan Ames, What’s Not To Love
“If it’s not broke, fix it anyway. Keep changing.”
– Merv Griffin.
Fun with Domains
So I’m looking for a domain for this stupid little idea I have. One (vulgar) idea:
www.effoff.com
Sadly, this domain is taken by Effective Office Environments, a real business. Just think how much awesomer their products could be if they took their domain’s other meaning into account.
““Do you want to give it to me right now?”
“You mean here up...”
– Pat, to a rack space saleswoman, speaking a language all of his own. Circa 1999.
Heh. Rack space.
OH NOES!1! TEH CREDIT!!!@!
Lots of panic and doomsday scenarios being thrown around on various financial blogs today as the sub-prime loan market continues to meltdown.
Some fun quotes:
“Financial panics don’t happen during depressions,” said James Grant, the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. “They happen on the brink of depressions. The claim the world is prosperous is beside the point.” ~ Floyd Norris...
You're So Vain
… I mean, you probably think this post is about you.
30 Something
Today, I am old.