February 2011
27 posts
January 2011
24 posts
Contador and Doping
Last years’ Tour de France winner will most likely be stripped of his yellow jersey in the coming days and serve out a one year ban for testing positive Clenbuterol. There are two general points that the conclusion of the latest cycling/doping fiasco bring to the fore:
1. The Spanish cycling federation needs to be taken to task by the international cycling community for being soft on...
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A Supposedly Fun Things I'll Never Do Again
” There is something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that’s unbearably sad. Like most unbearably sad things, it seems incredibly elusive and complex in its causes and simple in its effect: on board the Nadir- especially at night, when all the ship’s structured fun and reassurances and gaiety-noise ceased- I felt despair. the word’s overused and banalified now....
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfal...
So Huck Finn gets the n-word dropped because it is too fucking tough for people to read. Ok, I’ll bite: simply put, there is significant value to the inclusion of the n-word in the text. The word itself is so ugly and offensive because it encapsulates the entire white theory of African-American inferiority and all the animosity that theory engendered. It is this core ugliness that makes the...
Venus ~Television
The world was so thin between...
Music Q
So the new inhabitants of the neighboring apartment that shares an all too thin wall (I knew this was a problem when the gut renovated on the cheap and should probably have moved in anticipation) have take to having overly loud, nearly theatrical sex (or maybe I’m doing it wrong and they’re normal and I’m a totally weak impotent sub-man), either way I’ve been exacting...