January 2010
49 posts
langer:
Imagine the world we would live in if consumers spent as much time thinking about where we buy our groceries or our clothing as we spend talking about the next Apple product.
Or how any of those things are grown, assembled, transported, stocked & disposed of…
“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness...”
– Douglas Adams (via louobedlam)
About right, Mr. Adams.
Dog and Pony.
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The ghost of John
Have you seen the ghost of John? All white bones with the skin all gone Oooh, Oh Oh Oooh Wouldn’t it be chilly with no skin on?
Get with the Times
Now, irony strikes, variables Champagne, caviar, fake Picassos Joke’s on us, back to the disco Same devil, Pale moonlight, Dosie-doe Do the hustle, see what we can slang Insecurites make me wanna prove things View duds to ease my condition Sleeve-stitched with the latest contradictions Don’t be scared, it’s just popular jargon Mismatched in God’s little Garden Out...
“…any legislative moves with this Democratic party and this Republican party are...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot, dalasverdugo) (via marco)
How long are we going to keep this shit up? Nearly 100% ineffectual overpaid self-serving windbags. Uh-mer-i-kuh.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan
(via danforth)
(via pursesomewhere)
Yes.
marco:
When I watch documentaries about the Vietnam War era in the United States, (tonight’s, ★★☆), I’m filled with both wonder and hopelessness: wonder at the sheer scale of the protests, civic disobedience, and government criminality of the time, but hopelessness that we still have all of the same problems today, systemically unable to prevent repeating the same mistakes in every generation.
...
Oh, what the hell, why not?
http://axiomecho.tumblr.com/ask
What is it...
…about Smooth Jazz that makes it the universally acceptable dreck that you hear whilst on hold? Is the complete lack of substance and likability one of the few things mankind can (mostly) agree upon? World peace through the mutual hatred of Kenny G? Perhaps.
Full Circle
frakintosh:
healywu:
Guess what menu I am editing right now? It begins with V and ends in -eselka.
speaking of veselka…
I don’t know what the draw is… I’ve attempted to eat at this joint a few times and it was sub-par. The last time we decided to split after being seated and then waiting for 15 mins for water and menus (table had not even been cleared). The host was rude...
“Oh, God you know I’ve tried. I know how hard I tried.”
– Blind Melon, I Wonder (via walpaper)
Still one of the most underrated bands. Nico and Soup are amazing albums…
“I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at FOX News....”
– - Sarah Palin (via talkingsodapop)
Horseman Horsewoman of the Apocalypse.
“Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group...”
– George Carlin (via marco)
I will never understand why RayGun was so idolized in this nation.
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Peace, Prosperity & a Little Paper.
The Great Betrayal
langer:
Now that President Obama has sacrificed the public option on the altar of compromise and centrist governance, the progressive left is facing its next great betrayal: the discovery that some Randian nutjob who’s all about free markets and hating on climate change and raking in piles of money by exploiting the sensibilities of well-meaning libs has been pulling the strings behind the...
The essentially complicit nature of the two ruling... →
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Good thing.
I got a Tiger update this morning, I was beginning to worry that we had more important shit to talk/think about.
