between two ferns with zach galifianakis

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis by Between Two Ferns

really funny stuff. a lot of quotables in this bit.

you make the call!

warf the klingon?



or condi?



big ups to my bro up on that smokestack for pointing this out. keep jammin.

terror

this will make you sad.

if it's shreddable, shred it

As we all know, cali's being hit hard right now with foreclosures. Luckily (for skateboarders), the state is awash in suburban houses with seamlessly designed swimming pools. According to this NYTimes article, skateboarders are flocking to places like Fresno to hunt down the pools, drain them, and skate them. This is like dogtown and z-boys all over again, except better. When the droughts hit in the 70's, skaters had to sneak into empty backyard pools during the day when people were at work. Now, they can go whenever they want and not worry about getting barged in on during heated shred sesh's. Skateboarders can keep their day jobs and still skate the holy grails of skate! And by draining the pools of the fetid, algae ridden water, disease-infused-super-rodents and tennis-ball-sized-mosquitoes are disappearing from suburbia! The world may be saved after all!

People Will Thank Bush

CNN Link

Really Condi? We will thank Bush? Certainly he has created policies that will stand through the 'test of time,' only because it's pretty tough to reverse two failed wars in the Middle East anytime in the near future. Unless we smarten up and just pull out...which is unlikely. And I'm not sure how ending 8 years with failed environmental policies, an economic crisis, and now a full out war between Israel and Hamas will ever be something to be thankful for. Fucking rot in hell.

Ted Talk

I found this interesting take on solving climate change while surfing through Ted.com this afternoon. He's definitely got some bizarre ideas, but also seems to be quite level headed about how we need to approach the climate crisis. The NYT article he mentions from the 1950's grabbed my attention right away. And for those unfamiliar with ted.com, it might be the most educational way to waste time on the internet.

Tysonisms

Check Out Capitalism Stole My Virginity....

For the new AC album....

capitalismstolemyvirginity.blogspot.com

carp fishin and the scum of the earth

Back in the glory days, carp fishin' at "the spot" on the Merrimack river was one of us litchfieldians favorite activities. A short bike ride away, you would go down and wet a handful of oatmeal down on the shore, form it into an oblong glob, slide it on a treble hook, and cast it out as far as you possibly could. Then you'd set the pole down on a stick and just wait for that huge sucker fish to take the bait.

In the meantime, a variety of ridiculous games were played. Most notably, the game where we'd throw a tennis ball way up in a tree and fight for position as it pinballed downward through the limbs. Whoever caught the ball won the liberty of starting the madness over again on the next turn. If the ball ricocheted into the water, "sir-reach-a-lot" was available to bring it back to shore.

Wood runs were made, fires were built, beef-a-roni was cooked, rummy was played, bowls were chiefed, and beers were drunk. Times were good. Just when the side games had overtaken our minds, that's when you'd hear that "ziiiiiiiingg.... ziiinnggg... ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingg." FISH ON.

If you were lucky enough to have it on your rig you'd sprint over, set the hook, and engage in one of the most epic fights known to humanity. Usually you could count on zak to land at least one of them suckers on each trip:
(click to see how freakin big that fish is)

When a carp was landed, everyone marveled at it's size and beauty. Catch and release was always practiced, because carp are scum feeders and taste like shit anyway.

So, when I saw this video online the other day, I couldn't help but laugh at how big of losers these hunters are:
Apparently, when the silver carp of the Chicago river is feeding, it swims close to the surface. When a boat comes by, the motor agitates the carp causing them to jump several feet in the air. So these brainiacs decide to cruise by in the high powered boats and shoot the carp directly through the bodies with high powered bow n arrows. Carp might feed on scum, but those bow hunting assholes are the scum of the earth.

the christmas tree.

an old youtube classic.

santa claus.

"Made in 1898, G.A. Smith's 'Santa Claus' is a film of considerable technical ambition and accomplishment for its period. It uses pioneering visual effects in its depiction of a visit from St. Nicholas.

A former magic lanternist and hypnotist, Smith was one of the first British film-makers to make extensive use of special effects to create fantastical scenes. It comes as little surprise that Smith corresponded with the French pioneer Georges Méliès at about this time, as the two men shared a common goal in terms of creating an authentic cinema of illusion. (Michael Brooke)"

a fitting christmas tribute..

pitchdork's album of the year..fleet foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"

merry qwanza ya jerks

every "that's what she said" from the office.

q-tip gets a live visit from prince

i don't know why this happened but i like it. prince kills it..

Sarah Palin will never go away

So i was wasting my time, reading this recent interview with Palin, where she was named conservative of the year for Human Events magazine. Anyways, I was really entertained by this little exchange:

GIZZI: Who is your role model?

PALIN: Susan B. Anthony. I have great respect there for the history. She was a pro-life feminist and those things that she stood for, and she was so far ahead of her time. It amazes me.

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A pro-life feminist? Bitch, Susan B. Anthony died in 1905....there was no serious pro-life/pro-choice debate at that point in time. Is Susan B. Anthony's opinion on abortion really relevant? You're making shit up again!! Can someone please stop asking this woman to talk?

link to entire interview here

Republican IT Strategist Dies

Michael Connell was set to testify in a case alleging election fraud from the 2004 election in Ohio. He was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove, and days before his death there were reports of threats to his life stemming from Karl Rove. An experienced pilot, he died in a plane crash on December 19th.

Link

it started with the collapse of the old man in the mountain..

from the la times:

Reporting from Brentwood, N.H. -- Come February, the red-brick Rockingham County Courthouse, one of New Hampshire's busiest, will arraign criminal suspects, process legal motions and otherwise deal with murders, mayhem and contract disputes. What it won't do is hold jury trials.

The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or disrupted in state courtrooms across the country.

Financially strapped New Hampshire has become a poster child for the problem. Among other cost-cutting measures, state courts will halt for a month all civil and criminal jury trials early next year to save $73,000 in jurors' per diems. Officials warn they may add another four-week suspension.

"It brings our system almost to a screeching halt," said county prosecutor James M. Reams. His aides are scrambling to reschedule 77 criminal trials that were on the February docket.

"All the effort to subpoena witnesses and prepare for those trials is right out the window," Reams said, frustration in his voice. "Internally, it's a monumental waste of time. We'll have to redo everything."


At least 19 other states, including California, have slashed court budgets and other government services as their economies have tanked, said Daniel Hall, vice president of the National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit in Williamsburg, Va.

"Courts are there to provide a fair and impartial resolution of disputes," Hall said. "When you start affecting that, you affect who we are."

full article here!

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come on new hampshire..let's keep learning from massachusettes' mistakes and try not to fuck up..

5 men convicted of conspiracy to kill US soldiers

CAMDEN, N.J. – Five Muslim immigrants accused of scheming to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix were convicted of conspiracy Monday in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11 strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist plots in their earliest stages. The men could get life in prison when they are sentenced in April.

The five, who lived in and around Philadelphia for years, were found guilty of conspiring to kill U.S. military personnel. But they were acquitted of attempted murder after prosecutors acknowledged the men were probably months away from an attack and did not necessarily have a specific plan. Four defendants were also convicted of weapons charges.

The federal jury deliberated for 38 hours over six days.

The government said after the arrests in 2007 that case underscored the dangers of terrorist plots hatched on U.S. soil. Although investigators said the conspirators were inspired by Osama bin Laden, they were not accused of any ties to foreign terror groups.

Defense lawyers argued that the alleged plot was all talk — that the men weren't seriously planning anything and that they were manipulated and goaded by two paid FBI informants.

Faten Shnewer, the mother of defendant Mohamad Shnewer, said the informants should be the ones in jail. "Not my son and his friends. It's not right, it's not justice," she said after the verdict. The government "sent somebody to push him to say something; that's it."

Convicted were: Shnewer, a Jordanian-born cab driver; Turkish-born convenience store clerk Serdar Tatar; and brothers Dritan, Eljvir and Shain Duka, ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, who had a roofing business. A sixth man arrested and charged only with gun offenses pleaded guilty earlier...

full article here!!

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this is interesting...

i knew i never liked pearl jam...

i heard this dumb song the other day and i noticed something:



the song is "better man." skip to about 4 minutes to hear what i'm talking about...the song is a blatent rip off of this:



english beat - "save it for later." it doesn't sound like a rock and roll reoccurance of chords of either...sounds like a jack.

robot fish.

again with the realistic robots...