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My City Was Gone
The Pretenders
19d,2h and 49m ago
The Underdog
Spoon
19d,2h and 53m ago
Kissing The Lipless
The Shins
19d,2h and 56m ago
oldnumberseven
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bricolage
Mix Tape
I sat at the bar. It was a long wood bar, and I always enjoyed drinking there. I lit a smoke, and enjoyed the Captain Morgan’s. It was warm in the bar. I took off my jacket and hung it on a hook below the bar. I glanced at the [...]
Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the reality of a hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly the huge movie star turns into an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions and hopes. How can he be up to the legend he has built? What can a film hero do when the gun pointed to his temple isn’t charged with blanks? JCVD finds himself at the turning point of his “hero” life.
Moment of Impact
Strong safety Troy Polamalu said football “just loses so much of its essence when it becomes like a pansy game.” He added that the NFL is trying to protect players from injuries because it is in the league’s best interests to do so.
“It has more to do with money and not really with our safety,” [...]
bin Laden
FiveThirtyEight.com
When bin Laden declared war on the United States, it was in the hope that the United States would declare war in return – not just on him, but on the entire Muslim world. He wanted war, the bigger and more protracted the better. He wanted the Clash of Civilizations. He wanted, in a very [...]
Hitchens
Sometimes I like Hitchens, sometimes I find him a wordy dullard. This is one of the times I think he got it right.
Another feature of a banana republic is the tendency for tribal and cultish elements to flourish at the expense of reason and good order. Did it not seem quite bizarre, as the [...]
Cactus
7. Pixies, “Cactus”
Though Black Francis doesn’t let loose his usual yowling scream in “Cactus”—a song about a prisoner’s wish that his probably deceased girl send him something with her scent on it—there are still plenty of desperate emotions on display. “A letter in your writing doesn’t mean you’re not dead,” the inmate reasons, so he [...]
Palin
Sarah Palin is an idiot
As a Ribbon (redux)
This is a revised version of this story.
The alternating red and blue lights bounced off the houses along Centre Street. The ambulance and squad car pulled up and blocked the driveway. The officer and paramedics came up the drive. The medics wore slickers and carried their equipment in big plastic boxes.
“Which is [...]
Good Vibrations
Here is a new meme, though I have not been on the internet for several hours so it could be seventy-two hours old; Find the song ‘Good Vibrations’ by the Beach Boys in your library and create a twenty five song genius playlist, and post the results.
