Monday, November 12, 2012

One Year Ago Today

baked beans sugar and margerine (and campagnolo electric)

is it here?  is it really here?  an interesting curiosity for sure, like the shimano stuff, but i'm not sure what the point is.  well, that's not true.  i know what the point is.  gee wiz gadgets that cost very little to produce in (relative) quantity but command an excessive retail price are what america is made for.  it's probably a cool thing, but as far from my bag o' tea as no-name chinese carbone garbage with a fancy paintjob.  i look forward to the parking lot crit on the campagnolo electric components just as much as i did the the shimano.  after that, i'm good for a while.



(cyclingnews.com photo showing the shape of the lever) 


she turned me into a newt

for once in his life skeezy newt gingrich has a high standard to meet: he must deliver as much delirious hilarity as bachmann, perry and cain have so far this year.  what that means is that the otherwise useless establishment media must mercilessly bait gingrich with his hypocrisy, his vanity, his utter vapidity and his serial adultery and sodomy.  if they do this with the proper vigor, gingrich will lose his mind and could become the most entertaining republican candidate this cycle.

the golden age of matt taibbi

michael moore is not the only good-guy type leftish media denizen to flourish in the glow of the occupy movement.  matt taibbi is another commentator who is doing great work on the subject.  what i've seen with both taibbi and moore, along with a few others, especially keith olbermann on tee vee, is that they are not strictly reporting or condescendingly hectoring but are instead both analyzing the movement and learning from it, broadening their perspective on politics and culture while they work.  this is a good thing--a great thing really--and cannot be dismissed; it is an important development for not only the occupy movement but the american left as a whole. 

don't tuck with fexas

this clown is plainly a pathetic closeted chorus-boy, and it's more obvious every day.

looking forward to the last season of primeval

sooooo much better than dr. who or torchwood.  it was better in the first couple of series with that unintelligible scottish guy and that other guy and that woman and the younger woman, but the two kids have stepped up well, and they've all done well consider the perilous production history.  makes just as little sense as terra nova but has about a billion times more style and more life and imagination in it than a thousand episodes of falling skies.

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