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any of you smokeland folks catch wind of this? i'd love to hear any stories if you got 'em.

posted by candycanesammy @ 9:31 PM 2 Comments

so someone stole my car today.

if any of you cinci-area peeps see someone in a '94 black dodge spirit riding around rocking out to my ipod let me know. har har. but seriously if anyone is selling a used car or know of someone selling a used car please let me know.

posted by sean @ 2:59 PM 3 Comments

at the request of at least one jackblogger... I am issuing an:

I HAVE A NEW DOG ALERT!!!!!

Her name is Beans Masala. She is a Husky-Shepard mix. The fat, beaglish boy is Grizzlebee. He and I have been buds for several years, but our new female friend is adjusting to her new life quite well.

posted by Anonymous @ 5:35 PM 4 Comments

Seriously. He's proposing legalizing gay marriage in New York. After suing the EPA for sucking corporate dick for years (sorry, Higgins), picking on Wall Street, and fighting mega-healthcare corporations in NY, he's getting ready to pick a giant fight with all the (R) state legislators and let the gays fuck under God and the state.

He's the most morally worthwhile politician in America right now. Too bad he's too much of a self-righteous jerkball to ever get elected.

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posted by stridewideman @ 11:23 PM 2 Comments

A great essay by an atheist prof at VT in response to Dinesh D'Souza's article "Where is Atheism When Bad Things Happen," which uses the VT massacre as a case-in-point. ...I think Vonnegut would be proud.

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posted by Vyux @ 10:14 AM 0 Comments

Alec Baldwin: Father of the Year.

posted by ayatollah assahola @ 12:04 PM 0 Comments

This American Life

posted by Vyux @ 10:16 AM 0 Comments

just so you guys know

1. this whole VT thing was because of counterstike.
2. apparently you can tell someone's heartrate from video cameras
3. you can push a button on a controller and it will train you prefectly for shooting a 9mm

posted by totallybloated @ 4:31 PM 1 Comments

Here it is: Richard McBeef. Enjoy.

posted by ayatollah assahola @ 11:30 AM 2 Comments

This seems appropriate. This photos been around for a few years.



I wonder how the humanist feels about these wings.

posted by skirt @ 10:40 AM 0 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 1922-2007

RIP

A sad, sad day.

posted by dan @ 9:37 AM 5 Comments

I've just arrived in Peru, after having spent the better part of two months in Chile. I'm pulled now by obligations here and in Bolivia (old roomie's flyin' in), but I wish I'd had more time there). You can feel the legacy of the spasmodic Chilean government *everywhere* in that country. Photos of Salvador Allende (democratically elected president in power before Pinochet's coup and subsequent years of bloody dictatorship) everywhere, easily as ubiquitous as are Che photos in Argentina. Every Chilean folk song is a reminder. Their most celebrated artists either fled or were killed during the dictatorship.

I was very fortunate to hang out with some really terrific kids in Valdivia, Niebla, Santiago and Valparaiso, respectively, my age and younger, musicians and artists who helped me appreciate the history and culture. I started reading again about the relationship the US has had with various Latin American governments historically(something I've been loathe to do for a while), and now realize that in the past few months I have much more optimism for the future of humanity (in global economic terms) now than I did before I left the states.

There is still much time for many nations down here to avoid making the same disastrous mistakes that the US has made in the past 20 or 30 years. It seems possible to me that "development" here can continue in what Ivan Illich termed a more "convivial" manner (i.e. "a modern society of responsibly limited tools").

Specifically, I refer to the current hopeful triumverate of Chavez, Morales and, to a slightly lesser though still hopeful extent, Bachelet. I just stumbled across this little bit of enthusiasm written by Noam Chomsky a couple months back. I myself was in Cochabamba just days before the Cochacamba Declaration. Luckily I wasn't around for the riots that followed.

Exciting stuff. Hoping to watch it keep moving forward, and hoping that some of the thinkers in the states think to watch how the "second" and "third" worlds choose to allow their own development to unfold.

posted by Little Gordie @ 12:25 PM 0 Comments

Mr. Redleg (the old timey mascot) failed to make an appearance at Opening Day in Cincinnati. The Reds did, however, bring back Mr. Red. Carlos Zambrano lost his mind after looking into the infinite abyss of Mr. Red's creepy black eyes and subsequently gave up a two run homer to Adam Dunn on a fastball low and away in the first inning. The two run dinger would have been enough for most sluggers, but sensing a milestone, the big Texan swatted a solo shot on his next AB for his 200th career homer. The Reds went on to win 5-1. In other news, ex-cocaine addict Josh Hamilton came in to pinch hit late in the game and was greeted with a standing ovation after posting exceptional number in spring play. He was robbed of a single by a diving Cubs outfielder only to be regaled even louder as he trotted back to the dugout... Cincy loves this kid. He's a comeback story. Everyone loves a comeback story, and damnit, that is what the Reds are too. Wire to wire, baby!!!

*Note: I had to photoshop the blood off of my nose in that pic.

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posted by Vyux @ 7:11 PM 6 Comments

Overheard in New York

Lady: Excuse me, where is Nathan's?
Guy: It's around the corner, asshole. --South Street Seaport

Cabbie: Are you going this way? I'm not turning around!
Chick: What the..? I'm not hitchhiking, I'm fucking paying you, and if I tell you to turn around you damn well better turn around! He drives away.
Chick: Yeah, fuck you too, cunty Mr. Crack Whore.
Hipster guy: Lady, you need therapy.
Chick: Man, you need to stop sucking dick. And a haircut. --34th & 7th

posted by totallybloated @ 5:26 PM 0 Comments

Apparently someone on vanderbilt's campus is doing littlegordie impressions.

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posted by skirt @ 11:47 PM 2 Comments