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I hasn’t found that job yet :(
Okay, I may have altered the sub-head a bit. I don't have much to say for myself this fine post-Thanksgiving Friday night, so join me in trawling old WWII posters looking to steal stuff for inspiration. Here's Northwestern University's collection. And this guy's Flickr set is excellent. There ...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
We're having duck for Thanksgiving! Because I'm a idiot! Also, today is my first anniversary of being an immigrant. That was a happy coincidence, falling over the finish line just in time for Thanksgiving. I am thankful for many things today. I'm especially thankful for Michelle Obama's ...
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Talk about something else for a freaking second
My taste in music is...what's the next stop after "eclectic"? Psychotic? Retarded? Lots and lots of banjo music. Not all of it bluegrass. I have Chinese folk songs that sound like an alleycat with his balls clamped in a bench vise. I have klezmer. Played on the dobro. I own an ...
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Hockey stick? I’ll give you a hockey stick!!!!!1!
Hockey stick? I’ll give you a hockey stick!!!!!1!
sweasel.com — I cannot POSSIBLY be the first to think of this.... (more) Hockey stick? I’ll give you a hockey stick!!!!!1!
Schadenfreude Monday!
It's a vile day here -- wet, wild and windy (though I must say, unseasonably warm) -- and I've spent the whole of it piled up on the couch reading the leaked emails and datafiles from the University of East Anglia. I love this kind of shitstorm. And the lame-o ...
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Rooting for the home team
Apologies to my GLBT readers. I do have gay readers, right? Because if you guys are shunning me, it probably means my blog design reeks. I went to art school, as you know -- the Rhode Island School of Design. Which means I've had more gay friends than Marilyn Monroe. Put ...
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Wherein Stoaty flunks being an American
We've got turkey and roast potatoes and hot dinner rolls and candied sweet potatoes and...shit. I was SO SURE Thanksgiving was the THIRD Thursday in November. Wow. Huh. Comes to something when my mother-in-law rings us up to say she's been watching the telly and she's pretty sure we've got ...
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Oh, that witty weasel
One of the fun side effects of marrying a foreigner is that he or she will not have heard the dumbass kid jokes EVERYbody in your home country knows from the age of, like, five. So you get credit for being having an incredibly quick wit. Or, anyhow, you have ...
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Unintended consequences
HAVE you ever noticed a friend or neighbour driving a new hybrid car and felt pressure to trade in your gas guzzler? Or worried about what people might think when you drive up to the office in an SUV? That's the question in a New Scientist article on how we ...
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Cross the line? Yes we can!
I used to feel kind of bad, poking fun at The One. But the bigger the dose, the badder the taste. There was this Boston Globe article over the weekend: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,’’ he told campaign aides when he was running for the White ...
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Special Saturday bonus news item…
Ed Morrissey reminds us how the New York Times reacted when Bill Clinton kinda, sorta, not-really bowed to Akihito in 1994. "Unthinkable" they called it. "...the 'thou need not bow' commandment from the State Department’s protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years." Change ...
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Say, I’m getting really good at this craven attention whoring thing…
Hey peeps, what up? Oh, not much. Friday night. Big storm coming. Well, hey, there is the whole 2009 Weblog Award thing. I was absolutely floored to discover that my little corner of the webernettertubes, per the Technorati Authority, counts as a Very Large Blog. So I went ahead and nominated ...
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And you thought OUR lot were pinko stooges
You know, I try to stay out of British politics. I still own property, pay taxes and vote in the States. I got enough to get wadded up about with the politics I know. Plus, nobody likes a bitchy immigrant. But Uncle B sent me this link and I'm just...stonked. Just ...
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I guess I never really thought about what the Bomb Squad drives…
Cramming for a test at fifty is like a dream come true. You know -- the one where they read your transcripts and find you never REALLY finished Algebra and you have to go back to High School. Oh, and for some reason, you are in Study Hall in your ...
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I hate to pick nits. I mean, I really, REALLY hate to pick nits…
So, we had our own personal bonfire night on Saturday. That's common -- to let off your own fireworks the weekend after the 5th. On the general principle that they were going to join us for the experience whether they liked it or not, we invited the neighbors over. Fireworks, ...
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Mmmm mmmm mmmm. Thanks, Nancy!
220-215. No Congress has ever tried to ram through such a huge change with so little public support by such a narrow margin. Not since the run-up to the Civil War, anyhow. And so I don't actually believe this healthcare shit sandwich will ever make it to law. It has ...
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Now, let’s not jump to any hasty conclusions
Now, let’s not jump to any hasty conclusions
sweasel.com — Keep fucking that chicken, mainstream media! (more) Now, let’s not jump to any hasty conclusions
Happy Guy Fawkes Night! Don’t burn anybody I wouldn’t burn…
I mentioned a while back that Sussex makes a Very Big Deal out of Bonfire Night, holding parades and fireworks and bonfires in one village or another most weekends between late September and late November. Well, tonight -- November 5 -- is the real Guy Fawkes Night. By Sussex tradition, ...
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Anybody seen that damn donkey?
Yeah, I was hoping for a Republican blow-out. I'm disappointed the Hoffman race wasn't a win, but it was a squeaker. Reading around the web this morning, it seems everyone -- right, left and gooey caramel center -- is claiming NY-23 just goes to show everything I've been saying all ...
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Hey, morons!
I was going to post something triumphalist about today's elections, but it occurs to me that the counts won't be final for a while. And New Jersey is currently looking like a squeaker. So why not another attempt to pick the pockets of my pretend internet friends? Yes, that's right -- ...
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