January 2010
“It’s funny to me when fashion bloggers down our outfits and then super jock...”
– Kanye West (via molls)
“I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.”
– Charles Bukowski (via thoughtsdetained)
“Get a room, Fun Boy!”
– Unattributed
“Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight...”
– Gates: $10B vaccine program could save 8.7M lives - CNN.com
Sometimes all the zeros blur together and I miss stories like this on the first read through. So Bill Gates gave away some money. Big deal.
No. Bill gates plan to invest $10 billion dollars. $10,000,000,000. And it could save nine million...
“Just cause some cute girl likes the same bizarro crap you do, that doesn’t...”
– Rachel Hansen, 500 Days of Summer
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
– Calvin (and Hobbes) (via hrrrthrrr)
JIM ROME > BILL SIMMONS
Any good goddamn day of the week.
Here's the thing about The Catcher In The Rye
sade:
It may be popular to hate on it and say how overrated it is, because maybe that’s true. And you can also say that it loses its appeal once you graduate high school and start reading real literature and discover Vonnegut and decide that “everything was beautiful and nothing hurt” is your favourite quote. But that doesn’t really matter. Because when I was 14, I read The Catcher In The Rye...
“It’s clear that Chris Matthews is just one scotch away from being Ron Burgundy.”
– Jon Stewart (via soupsoup)
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about...”
– Catcher In The Rye (via nedhepburn) (via discobiscuit) (via blackberryjewsqueeze)
“The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for...”
– Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (via thoughtsdetained)
More accurate, I think, would be to say that seething resentment is always an inch below the surface. Revolt is much harder to catalyze.
R.I.P. J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye is the guy’s seminal work, to be sure, but for my money, this is the book:
What if, simultaneous with Salinger’s death, Dean Koontz stopped publishing books? What if it turned out that J.D. Salinger WAS Dean Koontz!?!?!?!?!?!
Yeah. Wrap your dome around that one.
GREAT NEW CLUB NAME: FULCRUM!
How Many Cats is Too Many???
My sainted mother just told me about an acquaintance of hers that has twenty-two cats in her Townhouse.
That’s too many. Just straight up too many.
But how much is too much, when we’re talking ‘bout mules?
MBSF Botches Another NFL Draft
Last April I wrote the following on this very blog:
“I feel strongly that Sanchez won’t be the guy…at least for four or five years. Call me on this one, please. The internets will capture this posting in perpetuity, much like Jabba’s carbonite did to Han Solo (who had it coming, in my opinion) and it will be up to you to call me on another misguided opinion.”
In his rookie season...
MBSF Endorses
One of my favorite sites, McSweeneys, has a sporadically updated feature called “McSweeneys Recommends,” in which they do just that - they recommend.
Thus inspired, I am tonight beginning something called MBSF Endorses, wherein I’ll recommend a variety of things, places, people, etc., that I think are worthy of consumption, purchase, attention, etc.
Sound good?
Here we go:
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