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2009

December 4
November 7
October 9
September 12
August 22
July 32
June 70
May 129
April 60
March 68
February 59
January 73

2008

December 26
November 79
October 125
September 71
August 145
July 30
June
May
April
March
February
January
Warch Watch
Gnarls Barkley covering Radiohead live ~  This is like watching Banksy paint Guernica on the side...
Oct 31st
Listen Listen
Little Tornado, Aimee Mann ~ This song is an unmarked pill. You don’t know if it’s a...
Oct 30th
Politically incorrect Halloween costume edition of GPOYW
Oct 30th
Oct 29th
I finally want my MTV again.
Oct 29th
Listen Listen
I got a summons for jury duty one week after registering to vote in California… a state, mind...
Oct 29th
Can fantasy save the imaginary?
Oct 28th

I'm an Asshole: Reason #344

Organic food is bullshit. The certification process promotes regressive agricultural standards that...
Oct 28th
Warch Watch
“Cats have twenty-six different forms of facial expressions, twenty-three of which are...
Oct 27th

Last night's top three drunken...

Build a Disco Bomber Wilco Bananarama  Dildo Barack Obama
Oct 27th
Warch Watch
Stanhope of the Week
Oct 25th
Oct 25th
Warch Watch
A clever, culturally relevant callback to a Budweiser commercial…? Nicely done.
Oct 25th
Dear Daily Show Chyron Writers, You are fucking geniuses. Thanks for bringing your A-game these...
Oct 23rd
Oct 23rd
Poladroid
Oct 23rd
Al-Qaeda Endorses McCain
Oct 22nd
Listen Listen
Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead ~ Fuck this fucking song for cropping up in a fucking Entourage...
Oct 22nd
Oct 22nd
“Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more...”
— Robert Heinlein
Oct 22nd
Warch Watch
Stanhope of the Week, Sarah Palin Edition
Oct 21st
“Four Stages of Life” or “One Crazy...
Oct 21st
Oct 21st
The Ghosts of Mt. Washington
Oct 21st
Oct 21st
David Sedaris
Oct 21st
Oct 21st

I just got a flu shot...

…and so should you! Not to sound like your mother, but go spend spend 30 minutes and $30 at a...
Oct 20th
If the electoral college double-dog dared them, you know...
Oct 20th
Listen Listen
One More Time, Daft Punk ~ This is what I imagine President Lincoln is blasting from that boom...
Oct 20th
Oct 20th
Oct 20th
The Emotoscope by Kenichi Okada
Oct 20th
Warch Watch
“We’ve got to stop this kind of nonsense.” Colin Powell earns all the points by...
Oct 20th

Thank you, General Powell

An excerpt of his endorsment of Obama: “I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but...
Oct 20th
Oct 19th
via: indexed
Oct 19th
“Nuke the unborn gay whales.”
— the greatest bumper sticker...
Oct 19th
Fill in the Blank Amy Winehouse is holding that baby...
Oct 19th
Listen Listen
This Modern Love, Bloc Party ~ Music that gets me high.
Oct 19th
Upgrading to an HD flat-panel television may be inevitable,...
Oct 19th
Oct 19th

Pussy Lipstick

Women have two sets of lips, but only one type of lipstick.  Why is this? Half the damn make-up...
Oct 18th
Oct 18th
Oct 18th
I remember this stunning photograph from my...
Oct 17th
Warch Watch
“You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.” Ah, Björk… she’s a daft little...
Oct 17th
The McCain-Palin Campaign
Oct 17th
Listen Listen
McCain and the RNC just launched a massive robocall campaign with this pathetic, fear-mongering...
Oct 17th
Dear McCain Campaign, Attached please find a white flag. ...
Oct 16th
Warch Watch
Mr. Chi-City’s Fridge “Bam! I gotta drawer of Kool-Aid… what flava you...
Oct 16th
Accidental impression of Hunter S. Thompson edition of...
Oct 15th
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the...”
— John F. Kennedy
Oct 15th

Fuck the TSA

My hatred for the Transportation Security Administration is a white-hot, luminous, spinning thing. ...
Oct 15th
The fires from space… *cough, cough*
Oct 15th
I miss the summer…
Oct 15th

Exploiting the Generation Gap

Many of you reading this, like me, were born between 1977 and 1982. We’re not quite...
Oct 15th
Warch Watch
Stanhope of the Week
Oct 15th
Warch Watch
Terence McKenna extends a psychedelic metaphor of the brain as a computer that runs on the operating...
Oct 14th
Listen Listen
Lil’ Hipster Girl, LMFAO ~ Hard. Stupid. Dance.
Oct 14th
Stadler’s illuminating question…
Oct 14th
Oct 14th
Oct 14th

Bipolar Disorder

Dow Jones has it.  
Oct 13th
“I’m like a buddhist hippie who’s finally gotten...”
— Hardesty
Oct 13th
Oct 13th
Oct 13th
Listen Listen
Til Kingdom Come, Coldplay ~ Play this at my wedding or my funeral, whichever comes first…
Oct 13th
Oct 13th
Oct 13th
Listen Listen
Night Shift, The Commodores ~ One of the greatest songs ever… ‘nuf said.
Oct 13th

How I'll Vote...

Here’s how and why I’m voting on each of the California ballot measures: NO on 1A -...
Oct 13th
Warch Watch
This morning for breakfast, I am having more pie with cool whip… 
Oct 12th
Oct 12th
South Park brought back its A game.
Oct 11th
Warch Watch
“Always ask someone you love before you put anything in your mouth.” Indeed.
Oct 11th

In Defense of Dignity

The proper response to religious opposition to choice or love or death can be reduced to a series of...
Oct 11th
Oct 11th
Must… Not… Kick…
Oct 11th
Warch Watch
Vote For Hope, MC Yogi ~ I’m a cynical bastard, but this one got me warm and fuzzy. More...
Oct 10th
That’s right… Ice Cubes.
Oct 10th
“Don’t make someone a priority if they only make you an...”
— Henry is right… best...
Oct 10th
Listen Listen
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover), Ray LaMontagne ~ This is like bumping into an ex-girlfriend. And she...
Oct 10th
Oct 10th

Consumer Casino

I just walked into Best Buy, and I’m having a sensory induced Vegas flashback. That vaguely...
Oct 10th
Oct 10th

You are reading.*

No man lives a million years.  There’s nothing complicated in the world: we have simple...
Oct 10th
Listen Listen
Girl In The War, Josh Ritter ~ Beautiful songs for sad movies we haven’t made yet.
Oct 8th
Oct 8th
Warch Watch
The Dolla’ Menu Millionaire “I want EVRY’THANG on the dolla menu!”  [from...
Oct 8th
Oct 7th
Warch Watch
Buffalo Stance, Neneh Cherry ~ That’s right, folks. It’s been twenty fucking years...
Oct 7th

401-Keg Plan

If you bought $1000 of stock a year ago, you would now have: $91.28 if you bought Washington Mutual...
Oct 7th
Oct 7th
Oct 7th
Listen Listen
Ottoman, Vampire Weekend ~ Because for two hours this weekend, Nick & Norah made me forget that...
Oct 7th

mav·er·ick

(māv’ər-ĭk, māv’rĭk) noun 1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has...
Oct 6th
Oct 6th
Is it just me, or should this be a logo for the American...
Oct 5th
Oct 5th
Oct 5th
Oct 5th
TSA Communication ~ Metal plates etched with messages for...
Oct 5th
Warch Watch
Take On Me, Literal Video Version ~ Damn clever… well done, dustball.
Oct 5th

Dear Don Miller,

Please reconcile your refusal to “vote your identity” with your statement that “I want our next...
Oct 5th

If Sarah Palin Were Black

Sarah Palin’s Alaskan accent is seen as endearing, even though she pronounces a lot of words...
Oct 4th
Warch Watch
Powers of Ten, Reckoner Redux ~ Just for fun, I synched up the classic 1977 educational film...
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
Warch Watch
Stanhope of the Week…
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
Oct 4th

Our Tax System, Explained in Beer

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid...
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
“I need your clothes, your boots, and seven billion...
Oct 3rd

Debate Highlights

MODERATOR: Governor Palin, since you clearly get uncomfortable when you don’t have a scripted answer...
Oct 3rd
Warch Watch
Call It Off, Tegan And Sara ~ Proof that less is more…
Oct 3rd

Anti-Intellectualism and the Debate

Nietzsche’s claim that Christianity represented an inversion of all natural values has quite a lot...
Oct 3rd
Oct 3rd
Every man, woman, and child who bought a ticket to...
Oct 2nd
Listen Listen
Devil’s Playground, Gram Rabbit ~ This song really speaks to me right now.
Oct 1st
Oct 1st