November 2010
24 posts
How the World Sees Us
Two weeks ago, at my final tailgate as a student, I found myself talking to a gentleman from New Zealand who was visiting some friends who met him while studying abroad. After requesting that he say some of Murray’s lines (“I said a central park in Newark”), we asked him to do his best to affect an American accent. He asked what we wanted him to say, and we told him to decide.
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Does anyone want to start an awards show with me?
I think there’s a four day span in June without one, so there’s a market for another.
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“There’s an overwhelming need for an economic growth agenda beyond merely...”
– Eliot Spitzer, in Slate
I maintain that America is full of too many people who expect too high a standard of living, with no actual industry left for support. There is no middle class. American manufacturing has either been off-shored or automated. These jobs are gone. They are not coming back....
Bush Says Kanye Insult Worst Moment of Presidency →
Not 9/11, not Hurricane Katrina, not the never-ending war in Iraq. None of that was the worst.
Being called racist by a pop star. That was the worst.
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http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/ →
The Facebook Archive is Creepy and Awesome
Yesterday I was going through my old wall posts in the Facebook archive that you can now download. I highly recommend doing this, by the way. It will dredge up all sorts of old memories.
Me: Oh wow. DUI Jen, with a wall post.
Roommate: DUI Jen?
Me: Yeah...there were a few Jens, and she got a DUI while I was dating her.
Roommate: Did you become her chauffer?
Me: No, I dumped her ass.
