6 posts tagged “news”
Jesus fucking christ you are the goddamn PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF. Or hire better handlers! CHRIST!
I hate myself so much for thinking this sounds awesome.
I do not think this sounds awesome. I think it sounds like death.
And, to end on the exact opposite of a light note: the number of Americans who filed for bankruptcy last year increased 38 percent from 2006.
And hey, by the way, home prices dropped 14% in the first three months
of this year, oil prices continue breaking records, and the building
you're in right now is literally on fire.
I can't believe this is for real. You're just waiting for someone to be like, "Do you khave microfeelm? Tell me where ees microfeelm!"
Not only is this a genius example of problem-solving, but it pretty much eliminates our ability to ever say anything ever about the practices of Royal Nepal Airlines.
Oh my god this seems like a really terrible idea.
I realize that the news is now not what the Patriots did, but how much they have to pay, but I came across a commentary a few days ago that has definitely informed my pop-culture joking on the subject. While this article is kind of painfully written, I am irresistibly drawn to its no-nonsense title. I know it's really straight forward, but it keeps making me crack up.
A few days ago, Wendy was encouraging me to do something dishonest. I texted her, "What do I look like, Bill Belichick?" to which she responded, "how do you know who that is?"
There is pretty much no question that I'm moving to Portland. I've got Wendy on board. Somebody buy me a raincoat.
This Times article has been passed around a lot recently, as pretty much everyone I know works at the library and is going to library school.
New Rilo Kiley single, The Moneymaker, is out, and it is ILL. It's all over the blogosphere; here it is on Hype along with a number of other Rilo Kiley gems (cover of Rock and Roll Suicide, what?). Distressing, and distressingly awesome, video here.
The highlight today, I have to say, is this recently-released Nixon memo from 1970, wherein the embattled president complains that people think he's mean. The intro on Slate does a good job of parsing out the brilliance of the piece, but my favorite part is probably where Nixon boasts that he phones people "when they are sick, even though they no longer mean anything to anybody." Poor Dick- this document actually contains the phrase "with regard to the whole warmth business." I mean, with material like this, are we really not supposed to kick him around?
One last thing: when I searched out Rilo Kiley on Hype, I came across this video. It's one of the new batch of Jenny Lewis songs she was doing on tour last year, which are all as good as or better than Rabbit Fur Coat, if you can imagine such a thing. I decided to post this for poor Fernando, who has had to deal with the ABBA nonsense his whole life. I feel you dogg. Important points: Jenny in her standard dress and cowboy boots, your new crush the Watson Twins, and how funny it is that Conan O'Brien is like a head and a half taller than her.
