My Tumble Blog.
A lighter, more frequently updated version of this mess.

Reagan brings the smackdown!

YouTube summary:

"A quick scene from the 1964 movie "the Killers" in which Ronald Reagan (playing the sole bad guy role of his career) gets punched out by John Cassavetes."

Gallery of Japanese psychiatric art

Interesting collection of Japanese psychiatric drug advertisements. Link

Richard Nixon resignation outtakes

Nietzsche Family Circus

"The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote."

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Nietzsche Family Circus

The Degeneration of America - links of the day

Republican surrounds himself with children so he can't be asked about the Foley sex scandal:

Reporter: Congressman, do you mind asking the children to leave the room so we can have a frank discussion of this, because it's an adult topic. It just doesn't seem appropriate to me.

Reynolds: I'll take your questions, but I'm not going to ask any of my supporters to leave. [...]

Reporter: Who are the children, Congressman? Who are these children?

Reynolds: Pardon me?

Reporter: Who are these children?

Reynolds: Well, a number of them are from the community. There are several of the "thirtysomething" set that are here and uh I've known them and I've known their children as they were born.

Reporter: Do you think it's appropriate for them to be listening to the subject matter though?

Reynolds: Sir, I'll be happy to answer your questions, I'm still, uh...

The Degeneration of America - links of the day

Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006)

Someone sends Olbermann fake anthrax, NY Post makes fun of him for it

The Most Isolated Country in the World

Has This Country Gone Completely Insane?

I'm gonna have to pass on this one...

Thanks Steve!
Podcamp Boston 2006
Zefrank

Subway Confessions

The other night while riding the 4 Train back home from work, I overheard a conversation between two homeless men. It was a interesting and unusually candid view into their lives.

This was one of the highlights:

"You know what I do? I smoke my mother fuckin' crack.
And if I wanna smoke my crack I don't pay for shit. I aint gotta pay for a damn thing! You know why?... GOD pays for it."

Make of this what you will.

Pearl Gross: Comedy on a Higher Octave

Watch the video

Is she a product of the sterile, insular monoculture of the American south?

Is she such a hard-core follower of her religion, that any attempts to produce funny, original material is stifled and deemed inappropriate by traditional Christian morals and values?

Is she just naturally unfunny?

Is she one of Jay Leno's writers?

Whatever she is, I find myself fascinated with her.

New Yorker Cartoon Editor on humor: (Found via Boing Boing)

The experience of humor is similar to the “ah-ha” moment of two things coming together. For humor, two things have to come together to produce the experience of laughter. Normal and abnormal; these things reconciled in a moment, and usually it’s a normal situation violated in some way that we can tolerate. You have to have something normal that becomes abnormal, or something that looks abnormal and then become normal.

So, normal: there’s a guy on the phone, saying “No, Thursday’s out. How about never - is never good for you?” Everything is normal - the office, the syntax of politeness - and yet the message is rude. We have a violation where we have a
normal situation.

Clearly a subject Ms. Gross has studied extensively.

Watch the video
Link to New Yorker article

Pin dropping can be hazardous

I'd like to apologize for my long absence, I know it sucks when bloggers go for long periods without providing any new content, so from now on I'll do my best to update this site more regularly - I've said this to myself before, but putting it in writing and posting it here gives it more weight.

Lots of thanks to Gill at Sometimes its Peaceful for making this blog "The Blog of the Day". And thanks to TheWeblogProject for linking to me in a post about people talking about the project.

I've been reading blogs for a long time, but I'm still relatively new at the content producing side of things, and I realize that this blog still has a ways to go. So feel free to leave any comments about things you like or don't like. It's very helpful.