This image has absolutely nothing to do with anything in this post. It’ s only here to annoy Ann Althouse.
I got nothing. But then Wednesdays are like that for me for some reason.
But I am tired of the antics of Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
I even more tired on some of the Democratic leaning blogs that are totally and inexplicably in the bag for Clinton, and believe me, Obama was nowhere near my first choice. Or my second choice, for that matter. I can understand some people’s (read: young peoples) passion for Obama, but Hillary Clintonphilia leaves me scratching my head.
I don’t care about todays polls because they don’t mean anything this early. The polls next week won’t be any more illuminating.
The Reverend Wright controversy is over. Get over it. That coon dog won’t hunt.
The Ole Perfesser is being stupid again, but that’s not news.
Let’s see, what else?
I don’t watch BSG so I can’t say how wicked cool it is.
I never saw an episode of The Wire.
I’ve never seen an episode of the American version of The Office, and only the first two episodes of the BBC version. Hell, I’ve only seen the first three episodes of the first season The Sopranos. and the first episode of Six Feet Under. TV takes up too much time. I don’t hate it, sneer at the idea of it, or think that it degrades the culture and turns us into slack-jawed drooling idiots; that’s what NASCAR is for. TV just takes up too much time.
I’m reading Mary Roach’s Stiff, a book I started to read several years ago but was rudely interrupted when Beckham ate it. I’m also reading AM Homes’ Music for Torching and Stephen Jay Gould’s The Richness of Life. It’s fairly easy to separate the three of them while reading them concurrently, as you might expect
…and this, via LG&M, is one of the best posts I’ve read this year. So good, in fact, that your time is better spent there than here.
So, just like a Seinfeld episode, there are no hugs and no lessons at the end.
Go away.
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awww ..i see the buxom melons ad was just a cheap come on …
Mary Roach’s Stiff, wicked cool reading.
Just bought another book of hers, Spook, which looks to be the same.
Happy reading, T!
I want to know just exactly how you got Stiff back from Beckham.
Just bought another book of hers, Spook, which looks to be the same.
TBogg – if you like Stiff I’d definitely recommend Spook. The two books complement each other very well.
Oh, and if you need additional reading material – Charlatan, by Brock Pope, about a quack doctor who sewed goat testicles into the scrotums of gullible 1930’s farmers and was responsible for the popularization of country music. Really.
For shame! You have a life! But you’re a blogger — I thought you were all supposed to live on cheetos and old Star Trek re-runs?
How dare you put the rest of us to shame like that? I just pulled an all-nighter for an ungrateful client, and came here expecting some quality snark or at the very least some basset porn as a reward… and you give me this?!? “Go read a book, it’s good for you” — Of course you’re quite right, but since when has that gotten anyone anywhere?
Enjoy the quiet moments with all those words… they’re mighty good company.
I’m reading Mary Roach’s Stiff, a book I started to read several years ago but was rudely interrupted when Beckham ate it.
Everybody’s a critic…
Hmmm. No further mention of the Wii. Are we to infer that Mrs. TBogg hasn’t let you play with her new toy? Or do the boys grab the controllers and have at it the minute she lets up?
How is it possible you have not got on board with BSG?
I too was a late comer, but you can rent the DVDs.
I mean, yeah, you can be a late comer like most Firefly fans, but really, waiting until Serenity came out on DVD meant you missed out on happy anticipation.
Otherwise–I listed to Stiff (narrated by my favorite reader, Shelly Frazier). Talk about hair raising!
Thanks for confirming that I am not the only person in the US who spends their spare time reading rather than watching the tube. And I catch plenty of concerned looks when I can’t discuss the latest episode of whatever, but that’s just the way I roll*.
* Yes, I know that is a pop culture reference. It is from the last period of time when I actually watched the tube rather than getting my news from the interwebby thing.
I believe this is the part where I try to convince you you’re missing something by not watching “__X__” (The Office, The Wire, The Sopranos, American Idol).
Feh.
As if people who watch TV don’t read?
Sheesh. Asshole.
TV is a wonderful instrument that shows you what you’re doing on your Wii. I also use TV to watch sports program related activities. By “watch sports program related activities,” I mean do other things while the TV runs in the background, and press the mute button whenever Bobby Knight comes on.
BTW, the best way to get exercise with a Wii is to take the empty box to the local Best Buy, hold it skywards with both hands, and run around screaming “I got one I got one oh my god I can’t believe I got one!”
And there’s a lot of books that can be improved massively with a little injection of Stephen Jay Gould in the middle of them. Or Godzilla.
Title, free to a good home:
The Viagra Monologues
Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant.
Explains everything that’s wrong with Red America with wit, candor and brevity from the inside.
Also Forbidden Archaelogy by Michael Cremo, The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell by John Crawford, Collapse by Justin Diamond and Salt by Mark Kurlansky.
The real world has such an amazing story to tell–ain’t got no time for fiction. It’s worse than TV.
Except the Bible. Read the first two chapters of Genesis and you’ll notice something really odd (even for the Bible). First one to find it wins even greater understanding of what a piece of shit the Bible really is.
it’s not the reading that matters .. it’s comprehending what gets read ..
Nice Yo La Tengo reference. Not my favorite disc of theirs (that would be I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One), but nice nonetheless.
I recommend Drew Gilpin Faust’s Republic of Suffering. There was so much death during the Civil War — how the hell did the country (North and South) handle the carnage? How did a “Christian” nation deal with so much killing? How did they deal with so much dead and decaying flesh on the battlefields? etc etc. Amazing book.
what is BSG?
I love the buxom melons
Battlestar Galactica.
I read while I watch TV. And fold cranes. And play with the computer. And listen to music. I find it keeps things from getting boring,
at least post a basset picture dagnabit!
Missus Caine…? Just guessin’.
Close, but the mystery of Missus Cain does not arise until chapter four.
Still, one of the true unsolvable mysteries of the Bible.
Thanks for confirming that I am not the only person in the US who spends their spare time reading rather than watching the tube.
The… tooob?
Oh, you mean that shiny box in the family room for playing DVDs and video games on?
Um, that would be St. Augustine.
Thank you for playing!
St. Augustine has nothing to do with the game I’m playing.
He came roughly 3300 biblical years after the biblical event I’m hoping the sane will discover and use against the idiots who believe this sort of thing, and more importantly never attacked this particular biblical event as sheer lunacy in any of his writings.
You haven’t played, and until you do you cannot offer any laurels to anyone, let alone the originator of the game.
Sorry!
You play to win the game.
Next!
GWPDA March 27th, 2008 at 5:40 am
DVD’s? Yes, lots of them when I have time and find something interesting. I never got into gaming though, can’t tell you why but I’m short enough in the spare time department as it is. That, and the fact that what was fashionable when I was in junior high is now cool, kicky retro confirms my old farthood.
It’s funny though, I remember what my parents were like when they were the age I am now, and it’s not even close; then again, they are Pox News, BillyO-loving rethugs so that probably explains the difference.