Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #3042

"Any Jehovah's Witnesses wanna interrupt Fajitaphrenia, they gotta get through me."

Hmm...suddenly my Suzanne Pleshette sense is tingling. And I enjoy that a little, I admit it.

Bonus: Speaking of San Francisco:

Pausing to wonder why anyone in this city owns a Stairmaster.
(Image originally uploaded by JNEN, andy cotton, and Andreas Frisk; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #4832

Sorry, couldn't get to this yesterday thanks to...um, let's just say "some gastrointestinal unpleasantness" and leave it at that, shall we?

Speaking of being under the weather, thanks in part to TS Noel it feels a little like San Francisco here today: blustery wind off the ocean and intermittent bouts of rain. Well, that and all the guys in assless chaps, which is not something you see around here every day, let me tell you.

"You maniacs! You stripped the machine heads! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
(Image originally uploaded by Li.Travel.Journal; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #8435

From a Star Trek spinoff we're very, very lucky to have missed: "And now, put your lobes together for the Geordi LaForge Dancers!"
(Image originally uploaded by i-eye; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Saturday LOLcattin'

My friend jules has a young explorer on her hands.

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #2849

Hot dang—I'm caught up to today.

This is what is known in Alabama as an "Organic Theft Deterrent Device."
(Image originally uploaded by Sean McCall; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #3805

This is for yesterday. YESTERDAY!

Had he not been excommunicated for defying the Church, Henry could have been excommunicated for his stand-up. "Take my wives—please."
(Image originally uploaded by Andyweb; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #5988

Okay. Gonna finish catching up. This is for Thursday.

A dream: I am walking in the woods. I see what appear to be balls of colorful yarn lying on the ground. I bend down to pick them up, but they turn out to be Cyndi Lauper passed out in the grass. She rebukes me and makes fun of my cargo shorts. I awake, sweating.
(Image originally uploaded by ZantiMissKnit; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Friday, October 26, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #7846

For Wednesday.

""Wait...did my right hand just cry out for mercy?"
(Image originally uploaded by pforbesmcd; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #2768

Okay. Getting there. This is for Tuesday:

Strange but true: It was the Miranda Guinness's messy yet fortuitous 1957 collision with the Ophelia Bass that led to the invention of the Black and Tan.
(Image originally uploaded by martin_rak; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton. P.S. Iverson. Yep.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #1868

...and this is for this past Monday.

In Case of Taste, Break Glass
(Image originally uploaded by sasuhai; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #9001

Okay, let's see if I can do some more catching up this afternoon. This is for this past Sunday.

Say what you want about Timothy Leary, he always had one hell of a sperm count.
(Image originally uploaded by i_sing_good; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #3498

And this is for last Saturday.

Oh, no! The Joker's dastardly plan to get Robin hooked on kettle chips is working!
(Image originally uploaded by Irma*; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #7782

Okay. This is for Friday a week ago. Show me red shoes, I think of two things: the great Powell-Pressburger film and Elvis Costello.

The angels soon discovered that Elvis Costello has painfully small feet and cares little about proper arch support. "Ow."
(Image originally uploaded by Yoko Nakayama; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #3363

Well. I had another awful week. I may have to start calling this At Least One For Every Day (Eventually) Flickr Blogging, but dammit, I will get caught up at some point. This is for Thursday. Thursday last week, not yesterday. Sigh.

In other news, the temperature WENT BELOW 70 DEGREES the last couple of days. In FLORIDA. In LATE OCTOBER. Global warming. *snort*

The people came to rue the day that Dear Leader discovered PowerPoint.
(Image originally uploaded by jpg46; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Friday, October 19, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #8507

This is for Wednesday.

These are my two favorite terrariums, Kang and Kodos.
(Image originally uploaded by Samuel Sherman; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #8292

Still catching up. This is for Tuesday.

Papilio semiliteraticus, meanwhile, survives by confusing potential predators with its atrocious punctuation.
(Image originally uploaded by Wendy_Chan; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #6715

Catching up. This is for this past Monday.

Unfortunately, the National Cheer and Dance Championship audience thought that Evita was an artificial cheeselike substance, and the high-concept routine proved a dismal failure.
(Image originally uploaded by cthundermaster; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #7334

Whew. What a crappy week I've had. I'm gonna try to do some catching up, though, while I'm feeling better this Friday afternoon. This is for last Sunday's DRFBing.

The Swedish Invasion wasn't just short-lived; it was over before the Fjord Fairlanes got their promo stills back from the Fotomät.
(Image originally uploaded by johantj; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #2272

Ah, the rare psychological syndrome known as Edvard Munch by Proxy.
(Image originally uploaded by bennyorr21; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #4316

According to the tags on this photo, it was taken using "cellphone lights" and "slow shutter." I post it today because (a) it's cool and (b) it aptly sums up my feelings about the sheer assholery on display in the right-wing ragegasm over the Graeme Frost case.

(Image originally uploaded by AlbinoGrimby; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #0358

Sorry: couldn't post yesterday.

It never fails. Right when he gets to the part where he's buried under an avalanche of steaks and has to eat his way out: "Hey, Rexy." *poke poke* "You sleepin', boy? Huh? You sleepin'?" *poke poke*
Something about young Schlomo Dinnerstein's art suggested residual circumcision issues.
After watching the herd stomp on a sick child and his family, some Republicans finally say "F*ck it. I am outta here."
(Image originally uploaded by Koichi.Dusty, brex, and spookyfishfood; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #0287

I'm going to be busy, so here's tomorrow's early.

Walking like an Egyptian is easier when you were one in a past life.
(Image originally uploaded by aliasali; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #6119

At least once in their life, every practitioner of High Pythonism must make a pilgrimage to Spiny Normanhenge.
(Image originally uploaded by sfsuperstar; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #7824

"It stands to reason: for a jazz festival, you need a jazz clown."

"I'll thank you not to refer to Kenny G like that."

(Image originally uploaded by camera_clicker; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #9939

A marvel as much metaphysical as architectural, it's the only building on Earth that actually gets bigger every time it's described.
(Image originally uploaded by ropacartelua; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #0323

In the not-too-distant future: "...and if passengers look quickly off to the left side of the ship, they'll see the Arctic ice cap. Quickly, I said."
(Image originally uploaded by bothenook; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Friday, October 05, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #9607

As PETA followed them steadily down the food chain, Michael Vick's friends were eventually reduced to staging aphid-ladybug fights.
"But the real standout in Animal Planet's A Streetcar Named Desire is the young Bichon Frise as Stanley Kowalski."
--Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
(Images originally uploaded by Fishy McFish and pwingate17; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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The Ambien Candidate

Looks like we have some empirical verification of Matt Taibbi's thesis about the soporific qualities of Lobbyist Fred Thompson—though thankfully it looks like he may be a little too soporific for his own political good:

NEVADA, Iowa, Oct. 3 — Twenty-four minutes after he began speaking in a small restaurant the other day, Fred D. Thompson brought his remarks to a close with a nod of his head and an expression of thanks to Iowans for allowing him to “give my thoughts about some things.”

Then he stood face to face with a silent audience.

“Can I have a round of applause?” Mr. Thompson said, drawing a rustle of clapping and some laughter.

“Well, I had to drag that out of you,” he said.

Hey, how can you not get fired up about a guy who says earth-shattering things like this?
“On prosperity, I have a real novel approach, a real creative approach,” he said in Coralville the other night. “Let’s continue doing what works and quit doing what doesn’t work in this country. Tax cuts work.”

Turning to what he said would be a second priority of a Thompson administration, he said, “High, high, high on our lists of concerns for anybody who would think about becoming president of the United States is the security of this nation.”

Could it be that even Republicans are getting tired of simplistic mantras and trite clichés—even when they're gnomically uttered by serious-looking daddy-men who theoretically reek of cigars and Aqua Velva?

There may be hope for us yet.


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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #0755

It could be a surreal caption; it could be a great title for an album.

Stargazing in Atlantis. "Hey, is that Robert DeNiro?"
(Image originally uploaded by jergam202; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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The New Crapiavelli

Were I the sort of person who believed in Signs of the Apocalypse, I would say that one is surely the fact that Chris Matthews has a TV show at all and another is that in our culture, it falls to a TV comedian to play Socrates to Matthews' lame, whiny Sophist:

I think that the saddest part of this interview (also available at C&L and AlterNet) is not the fact that Matthews is flogging a book with a shallow, sick, stupid premise ("Life is a Campaign"?!?); it's his mounting terror once he realizes that Jon Stewart is not going to play along with the usual "help me a make a pile more money by convincing the rubes that their lives won't be complete until they've spent their hard-earned money on this piece of consummate idiocy" I'm-a-celebrity-with-a-book-to-sell interview game. No: Stewart actually dares to question the worth, not just of Matthews' book, but of his whole approach to life. Oh, it is a thing of beauty to watch. Jon Stewart, if you did not exist, we would have to invent you.

It gets better, though: TDS revisits the Matthews interview and draws a scathing connection to the Blackwater story (which anyone who's been listening to Democracy Now! has known would be coming for quite some time):

I'm baffled as to why people like Matthews agree to appear on TDS at all. I mean, it's been almost three years since Jon Stewart did basically the same thing to Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson (refusing to play along with the standard media-schmoozing scripts), and it's been almost a year and half since Stephen Colbert refused to be a good little clown at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner. I've heard of slow learners, but this is ridiculous.


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Weekly Random Flickr Blogging, #5705

I had hoped to post these yesterday but had to dash. Sigh. At least I remembered to join the fun this week.

You Know You're a Bitter, Resentful Loser If You Find Yourself Saying Things Like This #21: "grumble grumble...It's not fair...grumble grumble...Damn narcoleptics get all the chicks."
Pumped up on anti-environmentalist rhetoric, an ExxonMobil corporate pilot launches a suicide attack on Mount McKinley.
Alberto Giacometti's "The View."

Submitted Without Comment: These photos appeared right next to each other on the same page in my RFB results:

Irony! Oops, sorry, I guess that was a comment.

***Categorical Aperitif Contest!***: Help supply the perfect title for this exciting piece of conceptual art and win...uh...win...get your name mentioned favorably on a blog read by DOZENS, yes, at least a dozen people. Some of my suggestions are below; add others in comments or send to nashtbrutusandshort@earthlink.net.

"I Can See the Head"
"Tell Me Where It Hurts"
"I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night"
(Images originally uploaded by hucm99, pow crusher, Senori & Leon, uri grinberg, shutter_se7en, and RachelinAustralia; Random Flickr Blogging explained here.)

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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

An Open Letter to both Chuck Asay and Glenn McCoy

You guys could learn a thing or two from this guy:

I'm fairly sure that Chip Bok belongs over on your side of the political spectrum for the most part, yet he often manages to be both funny and thought-provoking at the same time. Much as with Jon Swift's recent stint at Crooks and Liars, this helps to restore my sense of hope for the future of my species. Your work, on the other hand, often makes me fear that we peaked around the time of Kant and have been sliding remorselessly downhill ever since.

I mean, dig this:

Even when Bok takes a shot a global warming, at least it's not a cheap shot. Y'all could learn a thing or two from this guy, seriously.

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #2641: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

The perils of nearsighted parade hosting. "...and so we bid farewell 'til next Thanksgiving to the North Pflugerville Marching Band and Twirling Pflugerettes. Coming up next...uh...um...I think that's one of the Beatles. Yes, it's one of those loveable moptopped Liverpudlians, here on this brisk November morning."

Bonus obscure Beatles reference:

"Turn left at Greenland."
(Images originally uploaded by wtc3353t and discomethod; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Specularium

Thanks to what The Daily Show does periodically to the "news media," I can almost forgive Comedy Central for cancelling Mystery Science Theater 3000 back in the day. Almost.


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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #9605

"One day Vin Diesel will find the right girl and settle down."

"That art history degree of yours won't be worth the paper it's printed on."

"When I get old, you'll put me in a home and never visit."

(Image originally uploaded by Travel_Geographer; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #0065

Oops, couldn't get to yesterday's yesterday.

Up With Demigods! delighted Bronze Age audiences with its whimsical storytelling and catchy tunes.
(Image originally uploaded by mallumax; Random Flickr Blogging invented by Tom Hilton.)

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