The World Keeps Going Round

fuckin eh

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:09:15 -0800

fuckin eh

Ramones - It’s Alive. New Years ‘77. Via...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:07:11 -0800

Ramones - It’s Alive.

New Years ‘77.

Via OpenCulture.com

Was this really the first Dr. John song I ever heard? Fuck me.

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:30:16 -0800

Was this really the first Dr. John song I ever heard? Fuck me.

Common Market Cocktail. Like a real common market it seems like a pain in the ass to make.

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:20:51 -0700

Common Market Cocktail. Like a real common market it seems like a pain in the ass to make.

I just searched Wikipedia for King Oatmeal when I meant King Leopold II of Belgium. I was looking...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:11:39 -0700

I just searched Wikipedia for King Oatmeal when I meant King Leopold II of Belgium. I was looking for an article about his severed hand policy, as related to perverse instinctive.

I really enjoy pot.

"Scientists have long searched for a prescription to treat addiction. But companies were hesitant to..."

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:53:26 -0700

“Scientists have long searched for a prescription to treat addiction. But companies were hesitant to develop one. Charles O’Keeffe is the former president and CEO of Reckitt Benckiser, the company that developed Suboxone. “There’s not much money to be made in it,” says O’Keeffe. “This is not a disease space that a lot of people want to treat.””

- Meet The Drug Dealer Who Helps Addicts Quit

Grey Matter

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:40:21 -0700

I just read three and one half chapters of Fifty Shades of Grey. There’s a lot that’s been said about how poorly written it is and how the male lead, I feel ok using hollywood terminology as it was that bad, and how the male lead was a bit rapey. He’s also a capitalist prick, but lets not drift into a workers of the world unite rant (but seriously let’s unite).

No, more than talking shit on the terrible writing or the shitty human like characters I want to point out how the writing is bad in an oddly trippy way. Certain words and motifs are used so relentlessly that it’s actually kind of interesting, not an the normal intellectual way in which writing is interesting. No, it’s interesting in the way that if you actually read some of these books it affects you.

After twenty pages or so you get this feeling of the words falling into each other and disappearing inside themselves and then reemerging. The exact same phrase is used, the same observation made, the same “impassive” looks given, that you feel like your chanting a mantra in an attempt to void your mind of all thought and reach some spiritual truth rather than simply enjoying some BDSM porn.

I’ve defended these books without reading them. (I had a professor in college who got pretty upset when we would refer to novels as books. “These are not books, they are more than that. They are the scripture of the modern world, they are the sacred text of truly learned people. These are Novels.” The Grey books are definitely books.) I defended these books because I figured “what’s wrong if its a really shitty book in literary terms? I like porn, and most of the guys I hear saying these books are terrible like porn.” No one’s calling out porn for having shitty writing because we all know its about the dicks in vaginas, and assholes, and mouths, and thumbs in butts, and tongues in vaginas, and… you get the point. It’s about boning, not plot or character development.

The thing is I usually just watch the fucking parts of porn I don’t actually watch the story, if there even is one. A lot of people, however, do actually read the non-boning parts of the Grey books, and I think there may be a good reason to do so.

There are so many odd disjointed things going on in the books that by the time the reader reaches fucking you’re ripe for arousal (I got 50 pages deep in the first book and still no one got balls deep, not even upper shaft deep). The fact that the characters are supposedly young Northwesterners yet speak like middle aged Brits trying to sound sort of young along with improbable circumstances and most importantly the almost buddhist monk like repetition of language all serve to shut off the parts of your brain that process higher thought.

Normally in a novel this is a bad thing, but since this is a book designed to “moisten” women’s britches shutting down reason is good. It’s been proven that when in the midst of an orgasm the human brain goes blank in all the areas that make us that most special of mammal leaving only the animal brain, some awesome happy time neuro-chemicals, and a quickly diminishing chubster if your a dude. The piss poor literary skills of the writer of this world famous smut is actually making it smuttier. By killing the upper registers of brain function before people even start giving out head and HJs she’s priming you for sexy rape-play fuck times. (are there HJs? I didn’t get that far. I hear there’s fisting in the second one… oh my.) So hats off to you random British lady. In your incompetence you’ve stumbled onto an ingenious sceme for upping the vaginal fluid/happy sexy brain chemical output of your readers.

What about French? This is what I always think when I hear the...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:55:36 -0700

What about French? This is what I always think when I hear the Americans speak English thing. My grandfather and his ancestors spoke French, German, and English, not until he went to school and had the fuck beat out of him when he spoke french with his buddies did that cultural legacy begin to die. I don’t know french beyond how to respond to my grandfather when he asked “Como ca va?” This is because of the 1920s version of dickheads who say Americans speak English. Well my ancestors didn’t come to America they came to Louisiana and America then came to them. So I hear Americans speak English and I wonder if I’m American, and if I want to be American.

wilwheaton:

If only bigots would spend half the time on education that they spend hating people… well, then I guess they probably wouldn’t be bigots then, would they?

When Black Metal's Anti-Religious Message Gets Turned on Islam

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:32:11 -0700

When Black Metal's Anti-Religious Message Gets Turned on Islam:

I forget that it’s ok to say fuck Islam. You can say fuck Islam not because you’re some tea party idiot legislature who passes laws banning sharia in an overwhelmingly Christian nation, but for the same reasons someone in an overwhelmingly Christian nation says fuck Christianity.

Numbers!

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:52:31 -0700

Numbers!

Abita should only ever make double products. The Jackamo is...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:55:00 -0700

Abita should only ever make double products. The Jackamo is good, but most everything else in the usual line up is so so. But I’ve never been disappointed by any of their double or imperial stuff. This Vanilla Doubledog is pretty tasty, and at 4 bucks for 22 ounces of 7% it’s a pretty good deal too.

Rogue brewmaster's beard supplies wild yeast strain for new beer.

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:50:56 -0700

Rogue brewmaster's beard supplies wild yeast strain for new beer.

This is a reprint of the Persac of 1858. It shows all the...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:17:14 -0700

This is a reprint of the Persac of 1858. It shows all the plantations, who owned them, and what was grown on them from Natchez, Mississippi down to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bourbon in a wine bottle? When it’s 114 proof it can do...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:52:40 -0700

Bourbon in a wine bottle? When it’s 114 proof it can do whatever it wants.

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Wed, 02 May 2012 18:57:24 -0700

Blue crawfish. (I know your thinking it, and yes, that shit...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:45:39 -0700

Blue crawfish. (I know your thinking it, and yes, that shit cray.)

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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:38:16 -0700

So much ambivalence. Liked Saban at LSU, liked Obama as a...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:13:53 -0700

So much ambivalence. Liked Saban at LSU, liked Obama as a candidate. Felt weird when Saban left for the NFL only to come back to the SEC just not LSU. Understood the rational and didn’t hold it against him. Felt like I wanted something else from an Obama presidency. Same thing, understood the real world that he was operating in and the actions he was forced to take.

But still, go to Hell Bama.

think-progress:

Getting a helmet from the Alabama football team, Obama joked “I’m probably going to need a helmet between now and November.”

Won’t we all.

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I live an aquarian life, or is it aquaculturallist? Whatever,...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:36:18 -0700

I live an aquarian life, or is it aquaculturallist? Whatever, look at the pretty stack of crawfish sacks I caught.

The World Keeps Going Round

fuckin eh

Ramones - It’s Alive. New Years ‘77. Via...

Was this really the first Dr. John song I ever heard? Fuck me.

Common Market Cocktail. Like a real common market it seems like a pain in the ass to make.

I just searched Wikipedia for King Oatmeal when I meant King Leopold II of Belgium. I was looking...

"Scientists have long searched for a prescription to treat addiction. But companies were hesitant to..."

Meet The Drug Dealer Who Helps Addicts Quit

Grey Matter

What about French? This is what I always think when I hear the...

When Black Metal's Anti-Religious Message Gets Turned on Islam

Numbers!

Abita should only ever make double products. The Jackamo is...

Rogue brewmaster's beard supplies wild yeast strain for new beer.

This is a reprint of the Persac of 1858. It shows all the...

Bourbon in a wine bottle? When it’s 114 proof it can do...

Photo

Blue crawfish. (I know your thinking it, and yes, that shit...

Photo

More posts from the ponds.

So much ambivalence. Liked Saban at LSU, liked Obama as a...

I live an aquarian life, or is it aquaculturallist? Whatever,...