Tuesday, January 1, 2013

One Year Ago Today

tesch 101

i would love to have a road frame like a tesch 101.  no custom builders are doing this sort of thing now, the steeper, shorter concept for an everyday racing bike.  indeed there is more than one way to make a good-riding road bike, but i'd like to have the option of the steep front end and short wheelbase tesch in 2012, with some nice alloy 9 or 10 speed record/chorus.  it doesn't make sense to get that style of frame from someone who isn't a manic master true-believer.


virag's movie reviews: paul (2011)

it could not have sucked worse if paul giamatti was the alien.  simon pegg and nick frost should have committed seppuku before the release of hot fuzz.  seth rogen is a pox on humanity.

more ron paul hysteria

the two-watt bulb crew was out over on balloon juice spitting and snarling like killer shrews over glenn greenwald, but the ron paul question continues to take up space in better places because of obama's horrendous failure on so many basic issues regarding our imperial foreign policies.  paul is as much of an establishment politician as anyone running this year, including obama, in addition to being a ginormous douchenozzle; if he's the best you got, we're uber fucked. 

virag's movie reviews: green lantern (2011)

it sucked.  really, there was no fucking reason for making this movie.  at some point, movie producer people are gonna have to realize that some (many?  most?  all?) superhero concepts are just too stupid to bother making live-action films.  besides being incoherent and unintelligible, the whole thing was completely silly.  what the fuck were tim robbins, angela bassett and that sarsgaard guy doing in this turkey?  holy shit, i guess the check cleared.  what a waste of money.  there's no way they're gonnna make a second one of these, i hope.  it almost made the third transformers seem good.

jose can you sea?

indiana doing its best to make mississippi look civilized.  jingoism and stupidity are the real national pastimes. 

the gary johnson question

the most important point in glenn greenwald's rather obvious article about ron paul vs. barack obama is the absolute marginalization of gary johnson's candidacy in the republican primaries.  herman cain?  yes.  michele bachmann?  santorum?  newt gingrich?  jon fucking huntsman?  all yes.  ron paul, himself, but not gary johnson and not buddy roemer.  very odd, considering that johnson and roemer have far stronger resumes than cain, bachmann and santorum, and are equal or better than romney, huntsman and paul in the government experience department.  so what was the big deal?  well, if you listen to johnson or roemer for at least five seconds, you find out exactly why romney, huntsman, gingrich, paul, santorum, bachamann, and the cain train didn't want to be anywhere near those two assholes in an open forum.

ess emm all, small

world o crap, t-bogg, balloon juice, and rudepunit are small blogs?  really?  they've been around for years and years and have large readership.  i know that they are not associated with huge establishment media companies like daily kos and talking points memo, but i'm not sure that they are what should be considered obscure, unread and unknown. 

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