Sharp as Teeth and Stars

"At the end of November each year this restless, contradictory and simple country finds a way to..."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:34 -0500

“At the end of November each year this restless, contradictory and simple country finds a way to celebrate itself. The British, as befits a people at ease with themselves, do not have a national day. When the French do, their insecurity shows. Even America, on the fourth of July, displays a slightly neurotic excess of patriotism. But on Thanksgiving, the Americans resolve the nationalist dilemma. They don’t celebrate themselves, they celebrate their good fortune. And every November, as I reflect on a country that can make even an opinionated Englishman feel at home, I know exactly how they feel.”

- My America By Andrew Sullivan, My old colleague (via apsies)

Things I'm thankful right at this moment

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:43:00 -0500

Waking up to the smell of Thanksgiving dinner and Led Zeppelin on the stereo as my dad is cooking.

My mom and my dad.

World War II in HD on Demand

Kitty on my lap

Not having to drive today.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:00 -0500

I’m thankful yesterday is over most of all for the following reasons:

*Multiple calls from work, making me work on my day off.

*A speeding ticket it northern Indiana, making two speeding tickets in less than a week. I was picked off in a group of cars going the same speed. The cop was sitting behind a bend in the road, or really standing outside his car with the radar gun. He just points at me with a huge smile on his face and made a motion like he was reeling me in. I have lots of time off, so I’m fighting this one. Give me a court date, because I’m not paying this one.

*The best part of the day: I was hit from behind on the interstate and then pushed off the interstate into the median where I couldn’t stop myself and slid down the wet grass until my car enbanked itself in some mud. I was lucky that my car was ultimately fine somehow, but this ended up being a three hour affair as the rain and following back up prevented the cops and then toe truck from getting there on time. To add to this experience the driver that hit me was uninsured, I slipped and fell in the mud two times, and I received another call from work that some samples in came in that needed to be distrubuted that I specifically requested not be done this week to the donor center.

So yesterday ranks right up there among the worst in my life. I’m really glad I took the day off.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:02:16 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

It's almost Thanksgiving and that means one thing

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:05:01 -0500

I’m definitely coming down with something. It better just be my normal winter time perma-cold.

adeandabet: moderation: bryanwashere: Muppets- Bohemian...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:54:27 -0500

adeandabet:

moderation:

bryanwashere:

Muppets- Bohemian Rhapsody

Officially the greatest thing on the internet EVER!!!

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS! ITS FUCKING AWESOME!

(via:mikeantonucci:patbaer)

O. M. G.

Day. Made.

Yes.

(via soylentgreenispeople) I want a room draped in fabric with a...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:52:00 -0500

(via soylentgreenispeople)

I want a room draped in fabric with a projector in my apartment now.

(via soylentgreenispeople) Nice toe point Matthew.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:51:04 -0500

(via soylentgreenispeople)

Nice toe point Matthew.

robot-heart-politics: thereisnogod: (via jesusislove Come...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:44:32 -0500

robot-heart-politics:

thereisnogod:

(via jesusislove

Come on….how am I suppose to take you seriously?

This is real?

That Jesus is scary and also dressed for Easter instead of Christmas.

"The Christian Side-Hug strikes me as almost skeezily chaste—I’d much rather have a brief normal..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:28:05 -0500

“The Christian Side-Hug strikes me as almost skeezily chaste—I’d much rather have a brief normal embrace with a stranger than a hip-tap from a person who I know sexualizes even the most mundane forms of human contact.”

- Amanda Hess, commenting on the “Christian Side Hug” video just posted.

ponymalta: Gimme that Christian side hug, that Christian Side...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:20:00 -0500

ponymalta:

Gimme that Christian side hug, that Christian Side hug. Gimme that Christian Side hug, that Christian side hug. I’m a rough rider teamed up with Christ. Gimme that Christian Side hug, that Christian side hug.

These are the E-G rules, so pay attention cause this is essential. This ain’t no front hug zone. Stop and listen. No front hugs and no kissin.

- abstinence-only rap (for Jesus!)

Apparently front hugs produce too much sinful potential, what with the proximity of your junk to someone else’s junk. So, um, here’s the solution….? I wish I could say I made this up. Source!

This cracks me up. BEWARE THE EVIL OF FULL FRONTAL HUGGING!

My favorite part may be the sample of the police siren at the beginning, because these guys are hardcore and trouble for the law!

VHS or Beta - Night on Fire It’s been a long time since...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:55:54 -0500

VHS or Beta - Night on Fire

It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to VHS or Beta, and it’s overdue.

Happy Birthday Linda Tripp!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:32:31 -0500

notthatkindagay:

jasencomstock:

Struggles with Modern American Liberal Populism

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:12:18 -0500

Struggles with Modern American Liberal Populism:

New Deal liberalism was primarily about jobs and wages, with benefits as an afterthought. Post-New Deal progressivism is primarily about benefits, with jobs and wages as an afterthought. This inversion of priorities is underlined by the agenda of the Democrats since the last election — universal healthcare coverage first, jobs later.

It is only in the post-New Deal era that universal healthcare has become the Holy Grail of the American center-left, rather than, say, full employment or a living wage. Sure, Democrats from Truman to Johnson sought universal healthcare, and Medicare for the elderly was a down payment for that goal. But the main concern of the New Dealers was providing economic growth with full employment, on the theory that if the economy is growing and workers have the bargaining power to obtain their fair share of the new wealth in the form of wages, you don’t need a vastly bigger welfare state. Having forgotten the New Deal’s emphasis on high-wage work, all too many of today’s progressives seem to have internalized the right’s caricature of FDR-to-LBJ liberalism as being primarily about redistribution from the rich to the poor.

This shift in emphasis is connected with the shift in the social base of the Democratic Party from the working class to an alliance of the wealthy, parts of the professional class and the poor. And progressive redistributionism also reflects the plutocratic social structure of the big cities that are now the Democratic base. Unlike the egalitarian farmer-labor liberalism that drew on the populist values of the small town and the immigrant neighborhood, metropolitan liberalism tends to define center-left politics not as self-help on the part of citizens but rather as charity for the disadvantaged carried out by affluent altruists. Tonight the fundraiser for endangered species; tomorrow the gala charity auction for poor children.

Carl Kasell will stop doing NPR newscasts after December 30

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:24:33 -0500

Carl Kasell will stop doing NPR newscasts after December 30:

skimmingthesurface:

joemuto:

Don’t worry — he’ll still be on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.”

I just died a little on the inside.

Boo.

niki: Kelis - Acapella. It’s new, and it’s not...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:44:46 -0500

niki:

Kelis - Acapella.

It’s new, and it’s not what I was expecting.

inothernews: randomnyc: 42nd and 6th, 1960.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:38:11 -0500

inothernews:

randomnyc:

42nd and 6th, 1960.

inothernews: chaiyya chaiyya | sukhvinder singh & sapna...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:54:38 -0500

inothernews:

chaiyya chaiyya | sukhvinder singh & sapna awasthi

Now I’m doing the dance in my apartment before bed.

peterconnsbetterthanyou: (via twinksforjesus) really? no,...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:44:27 -0500

peterconnsbetterthanyou:

(via twinksforjesus)

really?

no, really?

This makes me like Katie Couric more than I ever have.

Great minds really do think alike.

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:26 -0500

shynessisnice:

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
— Søren Kierkegaard

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
— Jack Kerouac