Archive for April, 2009
It’s the Saw Doctors, Silly
My knowledge of Irish music is a little deeper than “hey, U2 is from Ireland, right?” but even so, I’m not sure where The Saw Doctors stand in the pantheon of Irish music. That said, if they aren’t heroes in their own land, there’s a little secret I’d like to let you Irish folks in [...]
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Tags: irish music, saw doctors
My son’s shit smells bad. Not just adult shit bad, like after a night of Pabst and Papa John’s, but bad like Death’s rotten breath is being expelled out of this 16 pound bundle of love. Somehow the work of the Fates have made it so that I have changed the last 5 or 6 [...]
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Tags: baby, crap, poop, shit
Ain’t No Sunshine
I’ve just started reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and it’s a dense piece of work. I’m intrigued by the style and I’m well aware that Pynchon is considered by many to be an American master, but the book hasn’t really grabbed me yet. The density and veracity of every sensation in the book tends to [...]
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Tags: Gravity's rainbow, lowry, mathiessen, pynchon, shadow country, under the volcano
Once More With Feeling
I’ve just watched the most recent episode of Friday Night Lights and I’m certain that this is one of the finest dramas ever on television. Yes, it’s all wrapped up in the dressings of small-town Texas football, but it’s really more about the cycle of success and failure in our lives. There aren’t simple solutions [...]
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Tags: football, friday night lights, human condition
The Tax Man Cometh
The Tax Man Cometh on a white horse and Death follows in his wake. I did my taxes this weekend in less than 30 minutes thanks to those poor sons of bitches over at TurboTax. I cannot imagine the clusterfuck it must be to write software that even remotely understands the ins and outs of [...]
Filed under: Government, Politics, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: revolution, software, taxes
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