Officers: “We want a raise.”
City: “No.”
Officers: “We aren’t writing tickets anymore.”
(thanks to wreinhardt for word of this forward-thinking negotiating tactic)
Monthly Archive October 2004
Yahoo News: Yasser Arafat’s health worsened Wednesday and a team of doctors went to his compound to examine the Palestinian leader, according to a Palestinian official close to Arafat.
Me: Awesome! Finally some progress… Oh my God. Where the hell did that come from?
Just when I think I’m not going to make it through the day, there’s George W. Bush’s cover of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” I cannot imagine the tedium that making it must have entailed, though it does suggest that at least one person is paying attention to the news. Sort of.
After fifteen years of planning to rent it, I finally sat down and watched Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, 1940’s funniest Holocaust comedy as well as the best movie to ever be inspired by someone saying, “You know…? You two sort of have the same moustache.” Though it ended up being nominated for five Oscars, […]
Go Redbirds!
You realize that, if the Cardinals come back now and win four games in a row, the city of Boston will just rend itself from the earth and jump as an entity into the sea. Would any of us really want that? Ted Kennedy notwithstanding? I have friends in Boston, and I don’t know […]
Game one of the World Series is on Fox. I know this (because I have lived in St. Louis for some time now) but I’m watching Saturday Night Live.
So, why interrupt Saturday Night Live to talk to me at great length about who won the game?
I know where to find that information. That’s why I’m […]
Combustible Celluloid, “movie reviews for the thoughtful and passionate” by a person who has apparently deemed himself both of those things
If you’ve ever wished one of Jay Leno’s guests would spend the entire segment telling him what a tool he is, you’ll love what happened on Crossfire last week. The guest: Jon Stewart. The occasion: The Daily Show’s new book. The actual topic: Crossfire is bad for America. The video and transcript: here and here. […]