Protip:
Posted on March 31, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging | 3 Comments
If you don’t like me, my blog, or the things I have to say on my blog, then maybe you shouldn’t read my blog.
Just saying.
New Site Unearthed
Posted on March 29, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Personal | Leave a Comment
I don’t want to big it up too much, but I think that TheLivingDeadbeat.com is set to be the best website of all time. However, in the interests of full disclosure I must reveal that Mr. Chainsaw, one of the site’s founders, and myself go back a long, long time…
Best. Job. Ever.
Posted on March 29, 2009 - Filed Under Animals | Leave a Comment
I don’t even know exactly what this guy does, but it looks amazing.
From Here To Infirmary Wordle
Posted on March 28, 2009 - Filed Under Media, Music | Leave a Comment
A Wordle based on the lyrics from all the songs on the Alkaline Trio album From Here To Infirmary. I think it’s an interesting way of using the site. I’m a bit disappointed with the result, but it might work better on other albums.
Update: Here’s The Downward Spiral:
Bullfighting Referendum In Spanish Town
Posted on March 28, 2009 - Filed Under Animals | Leave a Comment
When I read the headline ‘Spanish town holds referendum on its bullfight’ in my BBC RSS feed I was quite pleased, hoping that maybe this signaled the beginning of the blood sport’s demise. Instead, it turns out that the measure is due to a shortage of funds in the town’s budget. At least the global [...]
Johnny Waters’ Latest Silly Opinion Piece
Posted on March 28, 2009 - Filed Under Ireland, News Item | 2 Comments
Waters is notorious to churning out shite in his Irish Times colume, but his latest burst of spleen is really quite something. From the IT:
OPINION: CONOR CASBY, the artist claiming responsibility for the notorious nude paintings of the Taoiseach hung for a “joke” in the National Gallery and RHA, has said that he wants to [...]
Almost Cut My Hair
Posted on March 28, 2009 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
Fortunately I didn’t. Instead I dyed it purple, but it came out pretty much black, which isn’t a bad result, all things considered. Apologies for the camwhoring, but it’s useful here for purposes of illustration.
I’ve mentioned to a friend how I often step out of the shower with new hair and think something along the [...]
New Josh Freese Album
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Via Trent’s twitter, I’ve learned that John Freese, probably NIN’s best-ever drummer, has a solo album out, and you can listen to it here. It’s pretty good. He’s played in lots of very different bands, so it’s a bit hard to pin the sound down to anything. It’s available for download for $7, but it’s [...]
Trent Twitters!
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Somehow it’s not in the least bit disappointing. I wonder what it’s like to be in such a position that you can make thousands of people a little happier by doing very simple things, like twittering (or playing an arena show in Amsterdam, amirite?).
Where The Wild Things Are Trailer
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I vaguely remember this children’s book, or at least the wonderfully creepy illustrations in it. I’m a little confused as to what to make of the trailer: at best it looks like a tasteful re-imagining of the book; at worst it looks like a a bunch of guys running around the woods in fursuits. Still, [...]
Fat Family Wants More Money For Being Fat
Posted on March 24, 2009 - Filed Under News Item | 3 Comments
From The Telegraph:
A family of four with a combined weight of 83 stone say they are “too fat to work” and need more than the £22,000 they currently receive in benefits.
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“All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We’re fat because it’s in our genes. Our whole family is overweight,” she added.
I [...]
Christopher Walken on Twitter
Posted on March 23, 2009 - Filed Under Internets | Leave a Comment
It’s a joke, obviously, but a good one.
Splendid Isolationism
Posted on March 22, 2009 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 2 Comments
Maybe it’s the 4am crazy talking, but the more time that elapses between my last relationship and the present, the less I want to be involved in one ever again. So hypothetical future-girlfriend, if you exist and happen to read this sometime, you’re probably quite special.
Fuck Off Hull City
Posted on March 18, 2009 - Filed Under Football | 1 Comment
It’s impossible for someone who wasn’t there to say with any certainty exactly what happened, but this Gooner thinks that Hull manager Phil Brown and his staff are full of shit. Even if Fabregas did spit, which he denies, unless he actually spat on the Hull assistant manager I don’t see why it’s such a [...]
Read These Blogs
Posted on March 18, 2009 - Filed Under American Politics, Blogging, College | Leave a Comment
Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic.
Matthew Yglesias at Think Progress.
They’re both written from a left-wing/progressive perspective, and they can be very, very funny too.
