June 2008
31 posts
The Saddest Thing About Recycling
is realizing how much you drink.
Dan G.: Random macabre story idea. I was driving past a funeral home on the way to work today and wondered if people are cutting back on luxuries in funerals as the economy slows down. I mean, the person's dead anyway. They won't know if their casket is lined with silk or burlap.
The National Funeral Directors Association also just released the results of its biennial survey of funeral prices on June 2. The average U.S. cost of a funeral went up 10 percent. (to $6,195) since they last surveyed funeral home directors. Unless you don't need a casket. Then it's only $3,930. What a steal!
Me: dying on the cheap
Dan: something like that.
Just strip `em and tip `em.
Me: are you talking about dead people? or cows?
Dan: I couldn't think of anything else off the top of my head that rhymed with strip. I realized after I sent it that it just as easily could have been referring to Al's night-time proclivities.
Me: um, yuck.
UNITY Is Going To Be A Blast →
Kind Of Like My Blogging
CHER
OK, it will get easier, I promise. Just as long as we do it every day. Not just sporadically.
TAI
How do you know if we’re doing it sporadically?
CHER
That’s another thing, Tai. We’ve got to work on your accent and vocabulary. See, sporadic means once in a while. Try and use it in a sentence today.
… JOSH
Be seein’ ya.
TAI
Yeah, I hope not sporadically.
Oh, New York Post.
In a story about Lara Logan’s alleged promiscuity in Iraq:
Yesterday, CBS announced, without a hint of irony, that she was given a new Washington assignment as chief foreign-affairs correspondent. She joined the network in 2002 and became a “60 Minutes” correspondent in 2006.
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New York Post
(emph mine)
I
Because she sends me messages like this:
ya know.
I’m a strange person.
But I do not understand this particular legislation.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) | The South Carolina Senate has voted to give shoppers sales-tax-free holidays for guns and energy-efficient appliances.
Your Mom Through The....
This guy sure chose an interesting name for his travel company.
Update: at the risk of getting my blog banned by the company, I am posting a (lightly censored) close friend’s take on this:
M***: that means one of two things
either A) going to europe thru belorussia, the only dictatorship left in europe, and getting arrested and then a***ly raped in the prison
or B) having a*** sex with...
This Is Really More Of A Twitter Thing
I’ll be on the radio shortly - at 12:06 p.m., to be exact - talking about Myrtle Beach’s plan to get rid of the bike rallies.
Oh yeah, and I am twittering for some reason. Probably because everyone else is, too.
More On Why I Love A. O. Scott
“The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.
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The New York Times
Anne: lol I was just reading his stuff about pregnant bondage porn
Barack Would Do Terrible In Romania
A dead man was re-elected mayor of a Romanian village. Voters preferred him over his live opponent.
The late Neculai Ivascu, … a 57-year-old, died from liver disease just after voting began on Sunday, but won the election by 23 votes. … Romanian electoral rules allow for the death of a candidate between rounds of voting, but not on a polling day. “I know he died, but I...
Kids These Days
From a police press release:
Conway Police Officers have arrested 20 year old Benjamin Christopher Martin Wheeler of Spartanburg and charged him with Attempt to Commit Criminal Sexual Conduct Third (3rd) Degree in connection with an incident that happened at Moe’s located at 201 Graduate Rd in Conway on Sunday, June 15, 2008.
The victim, a fifteen (15) year old female, reported to police...
Three Down
Three people in the newsroom were laid off this morning. There’s not a lot to say except how much it unbelievably sucks.
In other news, I then had a conversation with a reader and sent this note to the newsroom:
A man called to say that he liked the big article we had about proper displays of the flag and wants to see a similar article about the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem....
Latest, Greatest, Tourism Industry Blog Ever
The bestest ever blog, the number one resource for tourism industry news, was just thrust upon the public for mass consumption. Since I forgot the master password to our blog system, I’ll have to wait till work tomorrow to see how many times I clicked people checked it out today.
Well, Now I Believe It
If the New York Times has it, not just the Post and Drudge…
Breaking News 3:23 PM ET:
Tim Russert Is Dead of a Heart Attack, His Family Says
Rollin' Down The Street, Sippin' on Orange Juice
me: [paraphrased for the blog] I’m working on a story about golf carts. Gerry: if I ever get not-poor, I’m totally buying an electric car
a cool-looking one
and I’ll be like all rolling down the street, blasting some tech n9ne, and all the ladies will be like, damn, who’s that environmentally friendly yet stylish dude? and why doesn’t his car make any noise?...
Story To Be Written
Somebody out there, some urban planning grad student, has got to be working on a gas-saving city design, and someone should write about it.
My five-minute commute is consists of two turns and three roads, but I swear I stop at six traffic lights every morning. Plus, the speed limit on two of those roads is 40 or 45, so by the time I get up to the speed limit it’s time for me to hit the...
Read This And Think.
In the latest installment in his “American Exception” series, Adam Liptak contrasts the United States’ liberal free speech laws with others in “similar” nations around the world. The inciting incident used is a lawsuit against Maclean’s, a Canadian newsweekly that published a book excerpt “arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values.”
...
That’s right. Blame the media.
To Regret, Or Not To Regret?
U.S. President George W. Bush claimed Wednesday that he had no regrets about the decision to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein in 2003 and reiterated his determination to force Iran to halt its nuclear program.
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CNN
President Bush … expressed regret at the bitter divisions over the war and said that he was troubled about how his country had been misunderstood. “I think that in...
Hmpf.
If someone picks up a piece of food off of a serving dish - rather, scoops a piece of food, say a French fry, from a dish - plucks it gently out and eats it, without touching any other pieces of food or the serving utensil, he or she is NOT spreading germs. There is no contact with the rest of the dish. There is no “double dipping” involved.
No Tomatoes
on my Subway sandwich today
:(
me: i have had so much hummus it's coming out of my ears
and my pores
Mike: thats the best feeling
