I know I shouldn’t wear it like a badge of honor, but today when I heard his name on the radio, I realized with some smugness that I must have been one of the few people in the entire nation who thought it was pronounced like “caine” instead of like “con-yay”.
So the media, being handed a scientific breakthrough story, are falling over themselves to call this thing the missing link. But since evolution is a slow, incremental, and continuous process that really isn’t a great term for the primate skeleton that was unvieled this week. My favorite comment on this story so far has to be one by user DeafDumbBlind on slashdot… “Great, 2 more gaps created in our fossil records.”
If you’ve made the host break down laughing, I think you’ve won already.
God, I love it.
“3/27/2009, 6:23am: Never mind about the eggplants. Probably should find another hobby. Thankfully, a man in my retired position can afford to do that.
3/31/2009, 11:44am: Painting landscapes now. I did one of the Smoky Mountains. Not-half bad.
3/31/2009, 1:39pm: Improved Smoky Mountain painting by putting Brian Urlacher in it. He’s milking a cow.”
Okay, I don’t know anything about beauty contests, and the only difference between Miss USA and Miss America that I can determine is the latter includes a talent contest of dubious value and somehow involves Donald Trump. But a Wilmington girl has won the former, and unlike Miss California she’s not a bigot (as far as we know, anyway), and…whatever, here’s the swimsuit shot:
OK, I know I’m not supposed to eat Chilean Sea Bass, or use plastic grocery bags, or leave the water running while I brush my teeth. I buy a lot of organic, drive a Prius, and even use sink and laundry water in the garden. But how could I possibly have known that buying seedless mandarins, the ones that are grown locally and organically, the ones the kids love so much and are easy to peel and go by the genius brand name “Cuties,” are threatening the livelihood of beekeepers? And why hasn’t someone told me that my favorite soft toilet tissue is destroying old growth forests? Next you’ll tell me that my laptop is made by indentured labor in China, or my compost pile is attracting West Nile Virus mosquitoes. Sigh. I guess I need to subscribe to more blogs.
Update: Check the comments below regarding TechCrunch being “full of shit.”
Damn. I liked this service. But if it turns out that Last.fm actually did hand out data then I’m out of there like shit through a goose. Not because I listened to an illegal copy of U2’s latest piece. Actually, I haven’t thought about U2 since Auchtung Baby. I didn’t even realize Bono was still alive.
I’d bag on Last.fm on principal. The principal being that the RIAA needs to find a business model that isn’t based on the same business model they started with in 1952.
Complicated promotion? Or has the cheese really slid of Mr. Phoenix’s cracker? Watch the following and decide for yourself.
I’m going with an over the top promotion. I’m biased. i think he’s a pretty solid actor and smart enough to go all in on something like this. Let’s face it Borat has forever changed the way parody is approached and it was just a matter of time before some one went the other direction with it. Rather than have an actor immerse into a role, have the public figure of the actor become the role.
And now I have a deconstructionist headache this big.
Whatever. . . If he’s acting it only supports my notion that he’s a great actor. If not? Then this is one of the most intriquing celebrity meltdowns since Michael Richards hit the JC Penney White Sale.
A Visual Aid to Help Dookies Understand Their Place In the World
My sister provided this, source unknown, but it quite succinctly sums things up.
Danica. Danica. I’m having a real hard time figuring out how I’m suppose to react to this. Well. . . not that hard.
I have to remind myself. that she’s about three apples high. But still those are impressive legs for someone who’s so. . . Fun Sized.
But still. . . the reaction. I mean I wonder if this is a distraction tactic for her fellow IRL racers? A nearly naked cash grab to pay her traffic fines? I wonder who she’s paid by to do it. Certainly IRL could use the traffic given the struggles they’ve had over the years.
Regardless. Here’s to bump drafting.
