Archive for: May 2005

May 31, 2005

If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s as an Ivy League English professor specializing in Victorian literature

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Kerouac:  “…Of course, the title itself is ironic.  I mean, Pip, you’ll recall, never does lay his frank and beans on Estella, and Miss Havisham’s ruined coos, symbolized by the dusty, cobwebbed room in which she keeps herself, is a …

9 rejected names Bob Woodward ALMOST used for his Watergate source, “Deep Throat”

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“Bobby and Carl’s Lifetime Meal Ticket”
“The Walrus”
“That Information Leaker Guy”
“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope”
“Fuck Gordon Liddy and His Gang of Military-Industrial Complex Thugs”
“Feltsie”
“Marky Mark and the New Kids of Righteous Liberal Justice Meted Out Against Fascist Right …

Watergate source comes forward?

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From the BBC

A former deputy chief of the FBI has reportedly admitted to being “Deep Throat”, the source who leaked secrets during the Watergate scandal.

Vanity Fair magazine says that Mark Felt owned up to being the source whose …

Cristy Lane:  The Lost Recordings, 1

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Recorded at Legend Studio, Pascagoula, Mississippi, June 1979, but never released.*

“Boogie Oogie Jesus”

If you’re thinkin’ HE don’t like to boogie

Holy Christ! have I got news for you

Everybody here tonight must boogie

And OUR SAVIOR’s no exception …

May 30, 2005

Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

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Asked to choose between grilled brats and riffing on the news, I’ll choose grilled brats most every time. 

May 29, 2005

Scenes from my driveway, continued x 56

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Deadbeat neighbor: “So.  Happy Memorial Day weekend, buddy!”

Me: “We’ve been over this, haven’t we?  You don’t wish people a ‘happy’ Memorial Day.  Memorial Day is day of reflection and remembrance.”

Deadbeat neighbor: “Oh, right. Forgot.”

Me:

Deadbeat …

May 28, 2005

The second set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly snobby blue state gourmands sneer at salt water taffy and chili-cheese fries

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1980s, group 2

The Long Riders (1980)
Maniac (1980)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)
La Mort en direct (1980)
My Bodyguard (1980)
Ordinary People (1980)
Popeye (1980)
Prom Night (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Return of the …

May 27, 2005

Ooh, rock us armadillo!  Ooh, rock us armadillo!

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Not today he won’t.  The sneaky bastard convinced our GP to prescribe him a week’s worth of Viagra, and as a result he spent the better part of this afternoon tearing through the house with an erection, trying to shag …

World War II Japanese soldiers found in jungle in the Philippines?

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From BBC News:

Japanese officials are investigating claims that two men living in jungle in the Philippines are Japanese soldiers left behind after World War II.

The pair, in their 80s, were reportedly found on southern Mindanao island.

[...] The …

a half-hearted attempt to reassert my conservative bona fides

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Down with French wine and judicial activism.  Up with life!

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update:  IF GOD WANTED TWO GAYS TO MARRY HE WOULD HAVE MADE ONE OF THEM A WOMAN! 

And tax cuts.

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