Two thoughts on Weeds

1. I've never actually been high, but I imagine it's not unlike watching Weeds: You find yourself vaugely dissociated from what's occuring around you, wondering what just happened, and willing to accept just about anything as plausible.

2. Why couldn't Zooey Deschanel have kidnapped ME when I was 12?

Always remember...

...Katherine Harris is batshit fucking insane.

Dueling videos

Which do you prefer, the original "Come On, Eileen" as recorded by Dexy's Midnight Runners...



...or this cover by the ironically named Save Ferris?

Style guide for college writing

At no point should any of the following words appear in your papers:

• douchebag
  
• bullshit
  
• shitting
  

That is all.

Delayed gratification

Me on my way to the comics shop last Wednesday:

"If something happens, and I don't make it back (and here the reader must imagine the expression this statement evoked from She Who Must Be Obeyed), bury me with Seven Soldiers #1."

Fortunately, nothing happened and I read it that evening. And, yeah, the book was just. That. Good.

2002 vs. 2006

I've been waiting for someone to make this comparison:

Let's compare midterm cycles. In 2002, Bush did 71 fundraising events; this year he's done 67. Pretty close, obviously. The difference, however, is that reporters and photographers were barred from just three of these events in 2002, while this year, 33 fundraisers have been closed to the press, including a Republican National Committee dinner last night in Boca Raton, Fla.

In 2002, Bush took part in 32 voter rallies at airports and sports arenas. This year, he's attended one, in Utah, and it was a non-political event on behalf of U.S. troops.

In 2002, Bush attended 12 public rallies. This year, he's attended zero.

Googlebombing the election

Let's strike a blow for liberty, shall we?

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

--AZ-01: Rick Renzi

--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

--CA-04: John Doolittle

--CA-11: Richard Pombo

--CA-50: Brian Bilbray

--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

--CO-05: Doug Lamborn

--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell

--CT-04: Christopher Shays

--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

--FL-16: Joe Negron

--FL-22: Clay Shaw

--ID-01: Bill Sali

--IL-06: Peter Roskam

--IL-10: Mark Kirk

--IL-14: Dennis Hastert

--IN-02: Chris Chocola

--IN-08: John Hostettler

--IA-01: Mike Whalen

--KS-02: Jim Ryun

--KY-03: Anne Northup

--KY-04: Geoff Davis

--MD-Sen: Michael Steele

--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht

--MN-06: Michele Bachmann

--MO-Sen: Jim Talent

--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns

--NV-03: Jon Porter

--NH-02: Charlie Bass

--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson

--NM-01: Heather Wilson

--NY-03: Peter King

--NY-20: John Sweeney

--NY-26: Tom Reynolds

--NY-29: Randy Kuhl

--NC-08: Robin Hayes

--NC-11: Charles Taylor

--OH-01: Steve Chabot

--OH-02: Jean Schmidt

--OH-15: Deborah Pryce

--OH-18: Joy Padgett

--PA-04: Melissa Hart

--PA-07: Curt Weldon

--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick

--PA-10: Don Sherwood

--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee

--TN-Sen: Bob Corker

--VA-Sen: George Allen

--VA-10: Frank Wolf

--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick

--WA-08: Dave Reichert



Go here if this has you scratching your head.

Is this mashed-up "interview" with Ken Blackwell...

A) horrendously unfair;
B) horrendously funny;
C) all of the above?



I can't make up my mind between B and C...

I actually spit soda on my monitor when I read #11.

I thought that was the kind of thing people joked about without it ever actually happening. Anyway, here are the 12 best movie pitches ever, via kottke.

Not dead yet.

Though from the frequency of posting lately, I'd understand why you might think that...

Two years later

It was two years ago today that we lost Christopher Reeve. So take a moment and read Lance Mannion's tribute, won't you?

Trapped in the closet 2: Closet boogaloo

Jeb Bush, why you in the closet?

Right hand, meet left hand

I really don't think the Washington Post intended this headline to run with that picture and logline:

Yeah, I can live with this result.

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People scare me.

For no good reason whatsoever, I did a search on YouTube for a clip from the Simpsons episode in which Marge imagines Catholic Heaven -- a magical realm where Irish, Italian, and Latino folks hang out with Jesus drinking, dancing, and eating for all of eternity. Nothing came up for "catholic heaven" so I searched for "simpsons heaven."

What did I find? Not the object of my search. Just a 22-second video of Ashlee Simpson, barefoot, on 7th Heaven, which apparently does something for some folks. Creepy.

But not as creepy as the fact that it's fourth in a series of such videos. Who knew?

It's alive

Dennis Hastert really does look just like one of Ralph Steadman's more revolting cartoons come to life, doesn't he?

Weird.

Our cable carries about a dozen different Showtime channels. Late yesterday afternoon, three of them were airing Jena Malone movies, and she was playing a pregnant teenager in two of them. Weird.