I wanted to sleep. I had been up the past 36+ hours writing my last paper for college. I didn't want to think about the Narrator or Tyler or Marla or space monkeys or lye burns anymore. I just wanted to sleep. I returned home…
Date Archives December 2004
Paint a gun with my brains and put my head to the wall
Bom: —Love how we fuck up our circadian rhythms every quarter during finals. Yes, quarters, not semesters. I know some people in the midwest who laughed when I told them that I receive "units" for classes instead of "credits." —Units. That's slang for penises. Tee…
Neighborhood #5 (Soggy Biscuit)
Here are two more examples for the case against the Grammys from the 2004 Grammy nominations: Best Hard Rock Performance "Slither" — Velvet Revolver Best Rock Song "Fall To Pieces" — Velvet Revolver Best Rock Album Contraband — Velvet Revolver If a tree falls in…
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?
Here's the back story: My buddy Jose covers the video game beat for the Washington Post. He claims to be the only serious game beat reporter for a newspaper in America. About half of the game beat articles he's written so far have made the…
I have Pop-Pop in the attic
Neal Pollack: —Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen, a mentally ill bigot, wants to ban novels with gay characters or written by gay authors from public libraries. "I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them," he says. —Does this mean…
The Idea of North
This week: I graduate from university. In addition, I'll be at Live 105's Not So Silent Night (Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Interpol, Muse, Taking Back Sunday and Dan The Automator) in San Francisco on Friday with Jewboy. No one gets on my nerves…
"Just" by Radiohead
Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood (PABAAH) is an informal organization that calls for (as its name suggests) the boycott of work made by celebrities deemed "anti-American" or "unpatriotic" for "stepping out of their roles as entertainers" and making political stances, particularly against President George W….
I am Ozymandias, king of kings
Does anyone remember how Mark McGrath dominated Rock & Roll Jeopardy? Fuck Ken Jennings. Sure, he won 74 consecutive times, but did he ever humiliate Nancy Wilson from Heart? I heard a song on the radio featuring Lil' Jon that samples "Crazy Train" by Ozzy…