I cannot stop listening to this My Morning Jacket cover of Buddy Holly! So sweet, so down-home, so classic.
Vacationism
Personally, I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
-JMT
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell
Washington Man Crashes Into His Rival’s Car And Then A Swordfight Breaks Out
“The suspect fell, giving the victim time to pick up a machete that happened to be laying in his yard and defend himself from his alleged attacker, Hinderlider said”.
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Happened to be laying in his yard? Bullshit. You don’t happen to have deadly weapons laying around. That doesn’t just happen. Unless of course you have a rival and live with your head on a swivel 24/7.
Poster made of the entire text from ‘Peter Pan’
Too cool.
‘Satan’s Piss,’ and 49 Other Things Four Loko Tastes Like
So many to choose from! My personal favorite: ”It tastes like candy that was left in a dirty gutter full of crackhead pee.”
Dear funny young Tom Hanks,
You are way cooler than the Fonz.
Strange Internet Virus Partially Explained
Earlier this summer, an Internet worm called “Stuxnet” made its way through computers across the world, and it seemed to have a fondness for wrecking Iranian nuclear centrifuges. Who did it? The Times: “The paternity of the worm is still in dispute, but in recent weeks officials from Israel have broken into wide smiles when asked whether Israel was behind the attack, or knew who was.” [NYT]
GWB, Putin and former Thailand PM (ousted last year in a coup, naturally) Thaksin Shinawatra. I find it impossible to frown when I look at this picture.
I don’t know what’s up with me and cars lately (I am not, what you might call, the world’s best driver). But after getting increasingly into the very hilarious and perfectly styled Bored to Death, I have decided I want George’s car - a 1982 Mercedes 380SL. I mean, I would look good in that thing.
Contributing artist Bruce McCall… spotlights Chrysler’s experiments in the 1960s with turbine-engine cars, also the subject of a new book, Chrysler’s Turbine Car, by Steve Lehto. In many ways, the company’s jet turbine engine was a triumph, able to run on virtually anything. (I wasn’t kidding about the peanut oil and tequila.) … The invention could have set the world on fire but didn’t for a number of reasons, chief among them that gas was selling at a piddling 30 cents a gallon - a lot less than peanut oil and a whole lot less than tequila. History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. In this instance, at least we don’t have to deal with massive Cuervo spills. Of course, the cleanup would attract a lot more volunteers… but maybe take longer.
- Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Audio for the interview with Loretta Lynn is now up. Enjoy!
That’s the beauty of it. If you get tangled up, you just tango on.
