watch out for your overcoat

Hi! I’ve been absent from the Blog-O-Sphere lately due to my Protestant work ethic. I was going to say it was due to my Viking work ethic, but generally the Viking work ethic involves getting some slaves to do it while you sit around, drink mead, and vomit in people’s faces. But here are some …

jedermann sein eigner Stylo

Hi! I was going to write another post complaining about stuff I dislike about the Obama administration, but news stories kept piling up before I could find time to write editorial comments about all of them. So just do what I do and read Glenn Greenwald. How can he type that fast? Some highlights (not …

sundry

I think Poetariat will have new posts soon regarding our recent surface-world projects. Stay tuned. Anyway, I wanted to post something this month, so here’s a salient quote from Glenn Greenwald: The political class wants people to see them as helpless captives to immutable political realities so that they have a permanent, all-purpose excuse for …

all cats have Asperger syndrome, cont’d

I got some more e-mails from my friend Jason: It happened again. Just as I had finished putting my laundry away, I felt that mysterious buzz inside my head and suddenly found myself in pure white surroundings, with only Joey’s face before me. I had no body of my own; it was like I was …

all cats have Asperger syndrome

My friend Jason sent me the following e-mail: Space Kat Today Joey revealed to me his space ship which he used to get to this planet. He also telepathically hacked my computer with his mind and made the attached images appear on my Desktop. He then communicated to me that these images are of him …

MEIN FÜHRER, I CAN WALK

Here‘s a Devo song that should be rewritten for Dick Cheney: he got big and fat and he was ridin’ high makin’ lots of cash trashin’ others’ lives now Cheney’s in a wheelchair and I don’t care Anyway, what did everyone think of Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem? I think mine was better. The news on …

everybody in this room is wearing a uniform

Frank Zappa, style icon? (found here) Trendsetters are rushing to buy the “261 top” – with the latest star to wear it being American Idol judge Randy Jackson. He wore it next to Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul on the hit show at the weekend. The unlikely fashion trend goes back to 1980 and an …

what did you expect?

Obama Unlikely To Quickly Close Gitmo Obama Signals His Reluctance to Look Into Bush Policies (but John Conyers has a better idea) EDIT: DEVELOPING… (as Drudge would say) I don’t really feel like writing about the above, because a) I already did, and b) this is like the septillionth post in a row that I’ve …