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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Donald vs. Howard: this time it’s duckin’ personal, plus a Big Dick on Fox News Sunday
Let’s try something different. Usually, I post here and then feature that post on Facebook, which is the way it’s supposed o work. This time, to figure out the headline, you have to go to my Facebook page. Making the … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons/Comics, Cheney, Facebook, Good Fun
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Uh-oh. This is not good news for the McCain Campaign.
If this turns out to be true, it is really gonna tick off Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of that ilk (how sad it is that there are enough of them to form a “ilk”): Fed Makes … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Media, News, Politics
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Anyone can happen.
Love that line (which makes perfect sense if you know the show and its concept) and that is, of course, the only reason I’m posting this promo for Dollhouse and the incredible Eliza Dushku. It’s buried in the usual Friday … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fantasy/Science-Fiction, Movies/Television
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Teddy RIP.
This very long magazine piece by the amazing Charles Pierce from 2005 is as good as anything I’ve read about the long career of the man who came to be The Last Kennedy for a whole generation of Americans.
Buddy’s great big wonderful brand new adventure into immortality on the internets.
In the Harvey Pekar post below, I told you I was intrigued by the Six Word Memoirs thing over at the Smith Magazine website. So I wrote one. I suspect I can do better and be more profound, but His … Continue reading
It is 2011, and John Boehner is Speaker of the House.
They’re kidding. I think. But it’s not really funny, or entirely unbelievable, is it?
Posted in Democrats, GOP, Media, Politics, Who's In Charge Here?, Wingnuts
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Harvey Pekar.
The Pekar Project is the first online venture for Harvey Pekar, the idiosyncratic guy who virtually invented the autobiographical comic genre, “mining the mundane for magic” as the About section of the Project page says. I met Harvey back in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Friends, Holiday Fun, Life, Writing
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God love Bill’s Auto Repair.
Some days are just pure gold. My car has been acting up a lot over the past week and yesterday it started sputtering and stalling and the dreaded (although often meaningless) “Check Engine” light went on. I managed to get … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
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From out of the distant past, a yellowed image of lost youth and faded dreams…
My old college roommate Gerry C. sent me this photo Friday…. That’s Gerry on the left and Terri, his soon-to-be wife and then (if I understand the chronology correctly) his not-wife, then his wife-again and these days back to not- … Continue reading
