December 31, 2009 in Shut Up 2009
Oh, by the time I post this shit I’ll probably be tipsy, as I don’t normally drink alcohol, and the cheap Chilean white I’ve got chilling in the fridge isn’t going to drink itself. And I quite like marking horrible annual events through the liquid medium of The Wine. Yes, I fucking hate New Year’s Eve, or Hogerty Dog as we sometimes never call it in Bonnie Fucking Scotland. Rob me of my senses, please.
by helene
December 31, 2009 in Shut Up 2009
Instead of dragging you through all twelve months of mind-numbing dreariness that comprised 2009, let me tell you how my year began.
It had its moments.
by perverseus
December 31, 2009 in Shut Up 2009
The end of each calendar year provides an ideal time to reflect back on the past twelve months – our successes, our failures, our new “Dancing with the Stars” champion. But the end of a decade brings the added pressure of trying to remember ten years of highs, lows, politics, and pop culture references. When you get right down to it, these decade-summarizing lists serve as little more than a contextual primer for the next Dennis Miller stand-up routine you attend. Still, any excuse for a rant, right? Here’s my list of important milestones we learned during the last decade.
December 31, 2009 in ListSmoker
I enjoy the hell outta film. Almost too much. I’m addicted, really. I consider my taste in film excellent, almost to the point of arrogance and elitism, but I’m okay with that. I tend to avoid American mainstream cinema, largely for it’s lack in creative and intellectual integrity, and instead steer myself towards foreign films, independent films, and films from highly thought of auteurs, the masters such as Kurosawa, Godard, Renoir, Tarkovsky, Melville and so on. Read the rest of this entry →
by lawyergay
December 30, 2009 in Obama, Politics, Rahm Emanuel
Have you heard about The Wraparound, the hottest dance for your politically-cognizant fancy-pants?
Guess what? You just did!
Here’s the deal: The corporate capture of Washington, D.C. has gotten so bad that left-wingers like online organizer Jane Hamsher and progressive economist Dean Baker are now finding common cause with the likes of Randian moron Grover Norquist and Phyllis “I hate gays” Schlafly. I am seriously not making this up!
December 30, 2009 in Wordsmoker Poetry
Mama Penguino Hovers Closely
Mama Penguino hovers closely
And then quickly moves away,
Swiftly going wheresoever
Her heart may freely say.
December 30, 2009 in Shut Up 2009, Wordsmoker Anthropology
Is that what we’re meant to call them? Naughties? I dunno. I should maybe call Oxford University. Or a large metropolitan area filled with people who have an opinion on the matter. Well, whatever we call the period from 2000 to 2009, unless you’re less than ten years old or now dead then you went through them too. And if you went through them then you must have had some experiences during them, it stands to reason. Unlike the decade.
by Belltolls
December 30, 2009 in Holiday Angst
Over the Holidays, as I reflected on the past year and steeled myself for the one forthcoming, I came to a STARTLING conclusion.
I haven’t a clue.
Yes, clueless.
December 28, 2009 in The Smokie Awards
On Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian national by the name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam and attempted to explode an incendiary device strapped to his leg over Michigan. Two days later, the Wordsmoker site was effectively shutdown by saboteurs. In the case of the Northwest flight, it took the red faced Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula three days to release this statement:
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