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What am I wearing? Come on baby, I’m at work right now.
Poor guy trying to win countdown with the word POOFTER
My best effort in shouting at Countdown was RICESHIT
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
If we can run up a debt to fund the banking system, there is no reason to accept cuts to the public services with wage cuts for public sector workers. And ultimately, if the bosses suddenly find capitalism so fucking inconvenient for them, why should we accept it?
…presidential politics now deliberately take place in a landscape that the modern world has left behind. It’s a landscape of nostalgia, the golden age in landscape form: Joe Biden visits Pam’s Pancakes outside Pittsburgh, Bush visits a soda shop, Sarah Palin watches ice hockey in a town that doesn’t have cell phone coverage, Obama goes to a tractor pull. It’s as if presidential campaigns and their pursuing tagcloud of media pundits are actually a kind of landscape detection society – a rival Center for Land Use Interpretation – seeking out obsolete spatial versions of the United States, outdated geographies most of us no longer live within or encounter.
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And if you look over here, you’ll see we have some more monitors with numbers and graphs…aaaaand…yeah, that’s basically how the stock market works. Let me get you your ‘trainee’ colored jacket and you can get started trading!
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I didn’t think it could be done, but I think these people on the “Sidewalk to Nowhere” make the Sarah Palin Parking Lot people look tolerant and intelligent.Seriously, the McCain campaign needs to do something to curb this ugliness.
Wow. These just keep on coming.
I swear I just saw Larry David say “You’re a peein’ socialist”