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Archive for November, 2009

Christmas Is Canceled This Year.

Ugh.  The happiest day of my year, each of the last 8 years before this one was always the day the Yankees would be eliminated for the year.  There was nothing like watching the locker room of Yankees on the verge of tears choking back their frustrations as they answered humiliating questions about why the [...]

Daily Hilarity: Eve Just Wants To Be Friends

Hilarious: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. From College Humor, via Atheist Media Blog Your Thoughts?

Jessica Lea Mayfield’s “Bible Days”

I’m always scouring for great women singer-songwriters, here is my latest find, the twenty year old Jessica Lea Mayfield: Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Christopher Walken’s Rendition Of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”

First Cartman, and now Walken is getting his poker face on:

Proposing While Testifying

Andy Hertzberg chose a special occasion to propose to the man who is now his fiance: the middle of his testimony to the Washington, D.C. city council considering legalizing same-sex marriages. (Sadly, the video was taken down from YouTube.) (via) Your Thoughts?

Apologists For Evil: Accusing Unveiled Women Of Inviting Rape

The Islamic version of an old, sick argument: (Sadly, this video was removed from YouTube.) Thank goodness for the woman there willing to stand up for progress in genuine cultural values. Your Thoughts?

“Holiday Co-options”, Or “What Exactly Did We Celebrate Saturday?”

Richard Wade on the evolution of a holiday: Last night, we celebrated Celtic Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of the Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Pagan Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of he Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Catholic All Saints Vigil/Feast Co-opted to Capitalist Subconscious Psycho-Sexual Sado-Masochistic Eros-Thanatos Paravestite Fetish Fantasy Catharsis and Candy [...]

St. Vincent’s Marrow Video

Annie Clark’s singing is ethereally and unnaturally deliberate in a way that sucks passion out of her vocals and replaces it with a creepy ironic distance and “more-knowing-than-thou” feeling.  Slowing down her delivery of otherwise immediate lyrics in order to enunciate them with an ominously remote quality, her songs always strikes me as in turns [...]

Sundaily Hilarity: The Name Of Jesus H. Christ

Tough to tell if he’s real or a Poe.  It’s much funnier if he’s sincere. via Secular Thinker Your Thoughts?