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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Les vieilles plaisanteries sont les meilleures plaisanteries

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"Coup manqué, mais vos genoux m'excusent-ils blessent-ils ? " " Pas, pourquoi ? " " Puisque they' massacre ...

BTW...

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"Men In Blanket Ran Javelin?" = "Benjamin Alan Varkentine." Now you know, and knowing is half the--

Spots on the moon of Mars

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And yes, damnit, I am deeply ashamed of myself .

Caption this photo

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DO-YOU-COME-HERE-OF-TEN? WHAT-IS-YOUR-CON-VER-SION-SIGN?
Friday, June 27, 2008

How did such a fanciful romance as Stranger Than Fiction ever get made?

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I ask that not because it isn't good--it is. But it's also literary on more than one level: It seems as though it's based on a b...
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Pixar is taking no chances in getting me to see Wall•E

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As it happens, I've already made plans to take my nephew to see it next week, but then I stumbled over this promotional image: Now that...

Shower the people you love with love in sun showers; Rain down

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There are always choices. For example, just now I had the choice between making another post about Obama and Clinton and a lot of dumb stuff...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

a lengthy but well-worth reading interview with George Carlin.

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It is so (worth-reading) not only because it appears to be the last in-depth interview he ever gave, but because it truly is that, in-depth....

Oh, man.

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To recap: First, I experienced an odd bout of compassion for Anne Hathaway's (allegedly) criminal ex-lover, on the grounds that if I wer...
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Emmy Rossum and the luckiest bannister on the face of this Earth

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

At this point, Karl Rove is just asking to be stepped on

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Consider this fascinating exchange between Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove on Fox News last night: O’Reilly, referencing an NYT article publishe...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

But wait, there's more.

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You know that bout of compassion I had this afternoon for Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend , now under arrest? I may be getting over it. Tur...

Elizabeth Edwards is awesome

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Edwards addressed an Internet conference in New York today by video hookup from her home in North Carolina. Anyone else think that the Edwa...

He was too hip for the room

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George Carlin again, this time from the pages of a Playboy interview in 2005. Excerpts: I'm Irish Catholic, so there's inhibition ...

Well!

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Say, remember a little over a year ago when I wrote about the Attack of the Killer Lesbian, Seething Sapphic septet? A state appeals court ...

Holy cow

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Damn me and my compassionate impulses--they keep getting in the way of my fully enjoying seeing people getting the ass-kicking they so richl...
Monday, June 23, 2008

"And damn it, that's my job!"

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As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democ...

Gee, he was just here a minute ago...(One more, EDITED WITH ADDITION)

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EW.com has put together a nice photo-piece of George Carlin's career milestones. ETA: And on Yahoo, they're featuring Carlin's ...

Want me baby

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This is interesting. Someone screennamed "nico92stronger" has taken Madonna's version of the Marvin Gaye song I Want You (rec...

NPR remembers George Carlin

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With excerpts from two "Fresh Air" interviews .
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"...a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice."
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