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Friday, May 31, 2002

2:54 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Gone all day without taking a stupid online quiz or being pissed off on a primal level? I've got you covered: take the Jailbait or Legal? quiz.  [++link]

1:09 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Had a long conversation some weeks ago with an old friend in which she tried to get me to admit to my most embarassing childhood musical enthusiasm (hers was Billy Joel). I couldn't come up with anything that satisfied her, in spite of having been a huge fan of Kiss and Rush (metal doesn't count, she insisted). I gave up, telling her I'd obviously effectively repressed the worst.   [++link]

12:37 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Recently crowned Miss Universe Oxana Fedorova, winning the Native Costume segment with a unique approach.  [++link]

12:14 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

How much money are you stealing from the company with your filthy needs? Find out here. One British Pound = USD 1.45 on an average day. (Stolen from NotMyDesk.com, your new favorite bitter-ass temping blog.)  [++link]

Thursday, May 30, 2002

3:14 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

It's not every day that I lift a link from Andrew Sullivan. But he's usually not a good source for Flashy Thing Fun.  [++link]

2:04 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Wow, and you thought your dad put a lot of pressure on you. Almost makes you want to join the hikikomori, doesn't it?  [++link]

11:52 AM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Here's a good source of info on Internet radio, and the legislation which, at the moment, seems to threaten the end of small-scale, independent web broadcasting. Fortunately, thanks to groups like the Future of Music Coalition, rioting in the streets might not be necessary after all is said and done.
  [++link]

10:44 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

I can't wait for my first opportunity to call someone a scrimshanker.  [++link]

10:28 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Interesting project, yes, but the best part by miles is the name.   [++link]

10:24 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Now future generations of thunderously bored schoolkids can peer into a glass case and whisper, "Gawd, you mean the whole jury was too dumb to understand DNA evidence?"  [++link]

Wednesday, May 29, 2002

3:58 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

I must remember to thank my mom for booting my miserable, depressive ass out of the house, thus sparing me the fate of Japan's hikikomori (they're like otaku only less interesting).   [++link]

1:38 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Delight, Minions! The Immortal War God BOB-HOVA will be honored by a TEMPLE befitting his MAGNIFICENCE!!! Tremble!!!  [++link]

12:24 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Street crime has dropped a remarkable 18% in the South London borough of Lambeth. Which is, coincidentally, the site of an experimental policing program emphasizing leniency towards cannabis. Cause and effect has not been proven, of course. Theoretical explanations include: (a) thugs are too high to be arsed with robbing people, and (b) the streets are too crowded with drug tourists for any crime to occur without witnesses.  [++link]

12:23 AM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Adding yet another dimension to the term "blood money". Daffy-boy still hasn't figured out what this is all about, has he?   [++link]

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

9:01 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Okay everybody, take a deep breath. Start getting adjusted to the possibility that not only did Condit have nothing to do with it, but that his withholding information from the cops the first two rounds would not necessarily have made a difference.

Of course, he's still a lying sack of shit who ought not to be trusted with a burnt-out match, much less public office.   [++link]

5:18 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Speaking as a guy who has posted a great many comments I would rather weren't retrievable via Google cache until the heat death of the universe, if you get off to this sort of thing, your sick ass belongs in a dungeon somewhere.  [++link]

4:43 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Cue the theme from Footloose.  [++link]

10:31 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

David Prowse is hoping George Lucas will allow him to strap on the plastic and reprise his role as Darth Vader in the Episode 3 (working title: "The Hugest Downer Ending Ever"). I'm counting on all you nerds to rally behind him, because Dave is a good guy and could use the cash. In related news, Brad Pitt is lobbying to play the young Chewbacca.  [++link]

Monday, May 27, 2002

3:53 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

In honor of Memorial Day, a guide to the authorized emblems of faith for grave markers at the Arlington National Cemetery. I am oddly charmed by the one for Atheist, an apparent 1950s holdover. Looks like a logo for one of Lex Luthor's front companies.  [++link]

12:28 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Tubby sellout John Lydon has come under criticism from well-off leftist Billy Bragg. Something to do with the monarchy and cash and ideals and saying silly shit to reporters. As a charter member of the Coasting on Work You Did 20 Years Ago Club, you might want to be quieter in your criticism of your fellows, Bill.  [++link]

12:32 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Well, this is someone's worst nightmare. Mind you, if you want to look at it as an accessory, the Italians have a stylish range on offer.  [++link]

Sunday, May 26, 2002

11:59 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Not up for wrecking your sleep cycle to watch the world cup action? Wuss. We got some cheesy anime-inspired flash games for you either way.  [++link]

Thursday, May 23, 2002

12:49 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

This is wrong on so many levels, but I always knew video games were a conspiracy to train the thumbs that will crush future generations. And you bastards said my hat needed more tinfoil. Here, have a cartoon.  [++link]

11:08 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Salon has an article about the Buffy season finale, focusing on how badass Willow is and what an overarching effin' genius Joss is. It opens and closes with passages from T.S. Eliot, which is a nice touch.   [++link]

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

7:39 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

And speaking of obscure Finnish metal (scroll down about six posts) -- if I had more disposable income and free time, I'd probably subscribe to this rag just for the writing. Fuck the New Yorker, man, this is edutainment.   [++link]

7:33 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

For those of you who need some mindless flashy cartoon violence to get you through the week.   [++link]

3:26 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Say Oops, Ivan. Because you fucked up.  [++link]

3:03 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Coelacanth! Invertebrate! Nyctalops! Mameluke! Dipsomaniac! Diplodocus! Curses!
  [++link]

1:30 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

I was walking a dog in Rock Creek Park this morning. It was pleasant and uneventful. I was lucky.  [++link]

12:14 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Does he have a larger point? No, probably not. But his new bitching technique remains compelling, not to mention unstoppable.  [++link]

11:51 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

I may have found a solution, or rather, a viable alternative to the Sporadic Book Giveaway Contest, which has thus far been a total bloody failure. This may turn out to be another good idea I somehow can't be arsed to follow through on, of course.  [++link]

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

3:58 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

I was there when Rites of Spring was a going concern, because I am old and my cool friends occasionally pried me out of my room and made me go to shows. You were here when Emo was absorbed by a random gooey pseudopod of the hegemonic culture. Quick, all hipsters get into obscure Finnish Death Metal.  [++link]

1:14 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Word of the day is Undertiming. Big shout out to my nieces and nephews reading this at work.  [++link]

Monday, May 20, 2002

11:54 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Early, often, and purple. Vote, dammit, this is what living in a capitalist representative democracy is all about!  [++link]

11:40 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

I'm not sure if it was worth it to download Quicktime after all. But then, I got bored with "TV Funhouse" very quickly because the novelty of watching puppets copulating wore off pretty fast. Watching them talk about copulating, that's funny. Bring back "Greg The Bunny" you FoxTV Bastards.   [++link]

11:29 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Well, this just makes me feel all kinds of better. So what is that smell?

5:47 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Evolutionary biologist SJ Gould, having passed on his memes, has reached the end of his lifespan. So long, and thanks for annoying the shit out of the Creationists.  [++link]

5:41 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Nine out of ten bloggers recommend Hostile Redhead to their patients who chew redheads. Enjoy a Hostile Redhead today!  [++link]

2:31 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Ever read Snow Crash? Neal Stephenson book, near-futurist s.f., lots of fun. He hasn't gotten a lot of hits on the Wm. Gibson scale of life-imtiates-art, but he did predict career day recruitment for the mafia.  [++link]

12:05 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Fox TV is doing a lot to win my cheap-ass no-cable-having heart (scrapping the X-Files, Ally, and Dark Angel), but they keep torturing me by playing whack-a-mole (it's on tuesdays? no, wednesdays? SUNDAY? WHAT?) with shows that r0xx0r my b0xx0rzz and then get flushed with all the other shit. Or am I the only guy on earth who watched more than one episode of Greg the Bunny?  [++link]

11:45 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

I have been told that I hate our president. This is not the case. I hate the anxiety he causes me with his fucking antics, certainly. Nothing about him annoys me so much as when his goddamned clowning is presented as humanizing and "folksy". The man isn't "folk", he's a Yale legacy and a descendant of the British monarchy. Bill Clinton was "folksy", in that he was from Shit Holler, Arkansas, and he at least made an effort to behave like a president in between bouts of erotomania and policy misfires.   [++link]

Sunday, May 19, 2002

5:38 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

One forgets that ex-Presidents have official duties. Or, rather, one might like to forget. I hope the East Timorese don't take it as a comment on our faith in their ability to maintain their newly minted nationhood that we sent what's-his-name the gladhanding office tomcat as our rep for their coming out party.  [++link]

2:02 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Our leaders are having another rough week on the "Should we issue vague yet dire warnings based on shadowy info, or should we just shut our fucking pie-holes?" front. I understand that they don't want to hear any more shit about how they didn't warn us about 9/11 based on previous shadowy info. However, I don't know about the rest of the nation, but I can't get any more vigilant/scared. Maybe if you live more than three miles from the Pentagon, your ass muscles have gotten a bit relaxed over the last couple months, but over here we're still picking up barstools when we go to the can.  [++link]

Saturday, May 18, 2002

12:29 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

In these troubled times, it is such a delight to know that some people out there have their priorities straight. What do you want to bet that those who miss out on the deal complain to Amnesty International?   [++link]

12:07 AM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Okay, Auntie Mugs was all set to defend (GASP!!!) our Idiot-Manchild-in-Chief for having failed to crawl into the brainpan of a sick fuck like bin Laden. But then the media bailed me out (deep sigh of relief). One the one hand, yes, our President is an intellectual lightwight. On the other hand, among the entire national security apparatus, nobody had the combined capacity for evil and imagination to come up with "well, what if they turned passenger jets into missiles and send thousands of civilians to a fiery, steel-crunching death?" I should think that even Stephen King would say, "Euw, ick."

So, I stand by my original premise: no one could have seen the nightmare of September 11 coming down the pike. Of course al-Qaeda was planning hijack schemes and other mean things to do. Duh. It's like saying a Bond villain has a cunning plan to corner the market on a rare element or resource and thus achieve world domination. Evil motherfuckers are evil motherfuckers: it's their job. They think up nasty shit to do, and the good guys try to stop them. But it's not as though the bad guys give us two weeks notice. Leave the crystal ball routine to Gandalf, Harry Potter and the Ren-Fest hippie crowd.

Bottom line: nobody saw it coming. Light a candle or curse the darkness.   [++link]

Friday, May 17, 2002

11:50 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

This is why I have a retina scanner wired to the entry countermeasures. No gummi bears will be disturbing my sleep (except in the dreams that come night after night).  [++link]

11:29 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

So, saw the new Star Wars. I will reprint here the review I wrote on request last night around midnight:

The things you imagine would be dreadful are dreadful (the attempts to develop a romance between Darth and Padme make American Pie look like Taming of the Shrew).

The parts you imagine would be fantastic are fucking fantastic (more balls-out CGI sequences than ever before anywhere).

The bits you imagine might suck sumo ass are on the whole shockingly good (Yoda whips it out like a true master).

My expectations were abysmally low, of course, but the experience in total massively exceeded them. I recommend with very few reservations.  [++link]

12:04 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Glum conjurer David Blaine is going to sit on a pole for thirty-four hours. When he's done riding Leo's dick, he's going to do some dopey stunt.  [++link]

Thursday, May 16, 2002

10:50 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Briefly: Posit that it may be true that our president is a man with an unimpressive intellect and a shaky grasp of several important aspects of being one of the most powerful men on earth. Yet, you can sleep at night knowing that he is surrounded by mandarins and policy ninjas who will keep things from fucking up on a massive scale. OK. Get ready to make some different suppositions, and get some Ambien stockpiled.  [++link]

10:32 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Going to be a light day on da Blog, since I am going off to line-sit for Attack of the Clones. Yes, like the sad, fat, emotionally stunted dork that I am. I expect to enjoy it, because I will be in genial company and have the lowest expectations of a movie since watching Dude, Where's My Car? on HBO.  [++link]

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

2:06 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Yet another reason to be skeptical of the prospect of cannabis legalization: crummy government issue shibby.  [++link]

11:14 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

A perplexed David Lynch begins to disappear into his suit jacket.   [++link]

11:03 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Yes, in future you may expect me to link to every damn thing that Heather Havrilesky had anything to do with. Deal.  [++link]

10:49 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

In case anyone has forgotten, our president is widely regarded as a moron. This view is generally expressed by pundits and snarly bloggers, however. World leaders and persons in positions of power rarely have the unbridled nutsack to blithely tell the press that they had to give the man a lengthy primer about the issues discussed at meetings where lives were in the balance.  [++link]

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

11:05 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

One of the better David Mamet lines ever: "What, like everyone in America can't draw them from memory?"  [++link]

8:41 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Okay, either the market researchers are pulling a monster prank on the nice people at Dell, or they have found a niche market of people like me who find this little twerp sooooo annoying, they would pay money for something with his picture or catchphrase on it just so we could set it on fire.   [++link]

2:48 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Flash: Rall outs himself... as a Frenchman!  [++link]

12:05 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Justin and Britney have run a New Coke scam on us. My fellow Americans, we must not let this bullshit stand.   [++link]

11:55 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Lileks, champion of rational fandom, has gone all crazy brave on us. Not that I don't agree with every word, but this column was a tactical error, unless he's hoping to get the day off when the wild-eyed true believers sink his paper's servers with flame-mail.  [++link]

11:50 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Back in the dark days after the Oklahoma City bombing, I had more than one friend confide to me that, skin-creepy as it was, they found themselves attracted to Tim McVeigh. (Two guys, one girl, if you were curious.) I didn't think that would be a big issue with Johnny Three-Names, and then I see these super-hot bondage pix being propogated...  [++link]

11:45 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Women Who Rule, part the first: Amy Wynn Pastor.  [++link]

11:28 AM ++ posted by Maggie ++

Newsweek lists Kevin Aucoin, makeup artist and self-made fashion media darling, in this week's Transition column. But they're pretty vague, giving no explanation for his untimely death. I am disturbed that I didn't hear about this for a week, and also that his website does not acknowledge his passing.   [++link]

Monday, May 13, 2002

6:50 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

"Yak butter tea? FUCK that shit!! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!"  [++link]

2:02 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Because we know you hate your job, we got the games today. Get the secret level, and you get to beat a tiger to death with his own shoes.  [++link]

1:41 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

If your day at work is sucking and you need to feel a little more powerful, try this.  [++link]

1:40 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

The lame generalist press will never get tired of Ozzy eating that bat. Poor guy didn't know it was a real bat (how the fuck did someone get an actual bat into a show?), he went through those rabies shots your mom always warned you about, and it was 20 frickin' years ago. I guess it's better than them latching onto the pissing on the Alamo story or the trying to strangle Sharon while wasted story, but really, what's the news value in mentioning it at all, especially if it makes the headline nearly as long as the story?  [++link]

1:32 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Useful stuff to know if you go to sushi bars and want to bore your date out of any notion of having sex with you.   [++link]

11:46 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Your hamsterless cell phone sucks.  [++link]

Saturday, May 11, 2002

10:35 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

You would think that the Turkish Census Bureau would have learned something the first time around. Or perhaps the fact-checkers at the wire services need calendars (scroll down, you'll see). Or those imaginary people have been shtupping like bunnies.   [++link]

7:34 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Here comes the neighborhood?
[tip of the mouse to the warped mind behind New World Disorder, who clearly has much more free time than I do.]   [++link]

7:29 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

OI!!!! Never mind the buttocks!   [++link]

12:51 AM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Transit cops can't eat donuts on the job. That must make them cranky as hell. I wonder, which of Mr. Carlin's famous "seven words" got this guy in trouble?  [++link]

12:44 AM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Somebody has been reading waaaaaaay too much Alan bloody Moore.   [++link]

Friday, May 10, 2002

3:15 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

My cat hates you, yes you, and nobody else but you.   [++link]

12:03 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

In the men's restroom in dadaist heaven, a man is laughing.   [++link]

11:40 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Today's Useless Eponym Trivia: Frederic Eugene Basil Foley, who invented the Foley catheter, and Jack Foley, who gave his name to Foley (sound effects) artists, were both born in 1891. (Thank you Mr. Ebert.)  [++link]

12:08 AM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Okay, everyone who's shocked, raise your hands. Thought so.
What I want to know is whether they will achieve the same record for continuity breaks and other errors. ( <----Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!)  [++link]

Thursday, May 09, 2002

4:20 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

If your chief criterion for selecting t-shirts is maximizing the number of people who will flat out kick your ass on the street, look no further. You have found the magic Hanes beefy-t right here.  [++link]

1:18 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Today's Worrying Thought: "Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak." -- George Orwell  [++link]

12:49 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Bombing suspect's friends are baffled. Actually, I suspect they always sound that way.  [++link]

11:54 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

So, how d'you like them apples?  [++link]

11:08 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

What I love about how the UK press treats celebrities is their inability to maintain tone. Every article but the most venomously screedy whipsaws back and forth from worship to revulsion paragraph by paragraph. I figure it has something to do with still having a monarchy in the 21st century. Note how gibbery they get writing about young Chelsea.  [++link]

9:51 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Who's got a blog? Gene Simmons got a blog. And an ego the size of Neptune, but we knew that.  [++link]

Wednesday, May 08, 2002

5:51 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Here's another one: Witty oxymoron.  [++link]

5:27 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

It is apparently inevitable that some cosmological fuckup will destroy the earth someday. A scientific certainties go, this is many orders less useful than "You always find stuff in the last place you look" and "Jalapenos are great on pizza, but don't have that third slice or tomorrow's gonna be Ass Like the Back of the Batmobile Monday".  [++link]

12:58 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Look for a sudden fad for full-body shaving among snowboarders and pizza guys. You heard it here first.  [++link]

11:39 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Dinner and drinks for anyone who can explain to me what the fuck is the big deal about cabbage-kicking tennis mediocrity Anna Kournikova. Yes, she's got good hair and legs. Lots of women do. Beyond that, let's see, her eyes are so close together it's a wonder she has sufficient stereoscopic vision to hit a tennis ball. Is that what everyone thinks is so hot?

Really, I just want to understand why the Gooch would put his struggling empire in financial peril by publishing fake sunbathing pix of the squinty brat.  [++link]

Tuesday, May 07, 2002

8:14 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Take the word "Enron" out of the headline, and Oh My God I would pay so much money to see this.   [++link]

8:09 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Now I say this as someone who cheers whenever Bruce Willis dies on screen...Much Respect from a former cookie-pusher.   [++link]

6:32 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

A report suggests that high school students with body piercings tend also to have smoked, used alcohol, had sex, skipped school and gotten into fights. In other words, if your child gets a nipple ring, he or she may not a be a gaywad.  [++link]

4:26 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Oh, you know they loved writing this one. "Size matters -- small is better"; "stripped-down, functional site" -- HAR. Business News reporters don't get to let their hair down much.  [++link]

12:19 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

It was only a matter of time before someone wrote this. Cue the four horsemen.   [++link]

9:57 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Prince Philip is clearly a bad influence on Tory politicians. (And, for the record, racist jokes are funny for the same reason light bulb jokes are funny: they're fucking jokes. Light bulbs aren't funny either unless you make a joke about them.)  [++link]

9:37 AM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Here you go. Enjoy it. But please don't ask me to explain it. I just got off a red-eye, and an aptly named one, too, since I ran out of saline (and no, I did not follow any of the advice in those columns either; I even watched the movie).   [++link]

9:21 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Sugar pills remain your best bet for treatment of depression. They don't call them Smarties for nothing.  [++link]

Monday, May 06, 2002

11:33 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Fish, barrel, and bazooka.   [++link]

5:06 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Holy Shit. Not that he wasn't a dick and a symbol of many worrying trends in Euro politics (and not to mention that he gave off a serious Blofeld vibe), but really, this is not something that happens in the Netherlands.

Though apparently it does.   [++link]

4:43 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Ozzy Rules.   [++link]

4:42 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

J.K. Rowling is a bit late on her deadline with Harry #5, and the natives are getting restless. A lot of the natives are technically adults, and the wait is making them really wiggy.  [++link]

Sunday, May 05, 2002

4:32 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

"I obviously voted for Chirac, but against all my values. He is a crook, but better him than a fascist." Nice to know that we here in the USA haven't cornered the market on shitty electoral choices. Now, about their judiciary...  [++link]

4:20 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Nice headline, almost makes me wish I were there to see it. Almost.   [++link]

4:16 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

What would Jesus do? I doubt he would send out kids to picket. Leave the iconoclasty to the adults, please.   [++link]

Saturday, May 04, 2002

4:03 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Not that he is bitter or anything.   [++link]

4:01 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Taliban Update: moving South, still not getting it. "Not wearing a head scarf doesn't mean I don't love Allah." Well said, madam.   [++link]

Friday, May 03, 2002

11:08 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Smack to the head for the person who decided that the phrase "pulls out" belongs in a headline about church pederasty cases. And smack to the head for anyone who tells these Bostonians "...to forgive, divine."   [++link]

11:02 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Taking the liberty of filling in for Kindly Uncle William as Designated Hater on Prince Phillip. It's almost too easy, really.  [++link]

10:57 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

So I heard on NPR today (yes, I am a geek) about the phenomenon of Italian men living with their parents well into their 30s. They are called "mummies" by detractors. Well, here's a coincidental report. Maybe it's cultural? Or maybe everybody just needs a good boot to the head. (Of course, I say this as a person going on 33 with a Powerpuff Girls backpack.)   [++link]

7:42 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin! Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin! Bye everyone, I'm off to the movies.   [++link]

5:08 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Oh, for Fuck's sake, Germany.

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4:15 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

I think I just really love crackpots, no matter what they believe in. Or don't believe in. Mister Wilson has been in seclusion munching on space brownies for a bit too long, plus he's getting on in years, but he's still good fun.  [++link]

12:22 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++

Mark Steyn has become my new favorite opinion columnist. Yes, today I'm a conservative cheerleader... or maybe I'm just a slut for good, juicy writing.
Sometimes I can't get past the fact that the guy is screamingly biased -- he's pro-Israel and anti-Arab, in case the name didn't tip you off to that possibility, and his rhetoric can turn ugly. In turn, he's blithely pro-America and anti-Europe, but he makes some thought-provoking observations that although inflammatory are somewhat hard to argue with [Pardon the lengthy quote, but it's good: "But even if you accept that ... Israel is a shitty little country, so what? In the objective sense, the Arab states are failures. If Israel was ‘imposed’ on the region in the Forties, the other nations date only from the Twenties. The only difference is the Jews have made a go of it. Both Israel and Egypt get massive subventions from Washington: Egypt, an economic basket-case, pisses it away; Israel is now a net technology exporter."] .
I should also mention that he has a vicious wit that had me cackling out loud in public over my afternoon coffee. In >his latest, he puts the blame for 9/11 squarely on the shoulders of the European and Canadian welfare states, and oh-well's that at least John Lindh's "kooky Marin County parents" were the ones to foot the bill for his terrorist training, and not taxpayers.
Anyway, give him a look. He's kind of awful, and he's kind of brilliant. Unless you're very, very sensitive, I guarantee you'll find his articles stimulate critical thought and debate. And that's fun.  [++link]

Thursday, May 02, 2002

9:53 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Well, doesn't that just make you feel all kinds of better.   [++link]

Wednesday, May 01, 2002

9:58 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Fast, cheap, somewhat under control, and EUW ICK!   [++link]

7:46 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

Someday when you feel like taking your life into your own hands, interrupt Your Kindly Uncle William at work. If you aren't that brave, catch him when he isn't busy, buy him a cup of coffee, and ask him why he identifies with Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".  [++link]

4:38 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++

You know, I realize that prurient preoccupation with young women's undies is nothing new. Neither is comic irony. So let's get this straight: to preserve your daughters' dignity and self-respect, you compel them to perform in an impromptu Vickie's Secret runway show on the way into prom? What the bejeezus were these people thinking?   [++link]

9:33 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Welsh songbird Charlotte Church, who is sixteen freakin' years old, has been named Bum of the Year. This is some bullshit on so many levels, but tell me, am I blind or does the girl have an ass like a sofa cushion?  [++link]

9:18 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Every time I feel like I'm edging into a reasonable appearance of adulthood, I find myself laughing at stuff like this. I should just get used to the fact that my development arrested completely when I was a screwed up 13-year-old.  [++link]

9:14 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him. That's what it comes to. He should want to kill me because I want to kill him. But I still love him." Yes, Mike Tyson has a contemplative side.   [++link]

12:46 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++

Hooray!
Hooray !
The first of May!
Hippie clubbing starts today!  [++link]

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