Michael Moore would be dead within a week if he came to Brazil and tried to do the kind of shit he does here
—Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha, director of Bus 174 and Elite Squad responding to some criticism of his latest film. My buddy Kim turned me on to Padilha, I highly recommend Bus 174, can’t wait for Elite Squad.
Awesome. A phone with rabbit ears.
America, can you really vote for a liberal elite who doesn’t know how to work a coffee machine? SENATOR, DOES REVEREND WRIGHT HATE COFFEE MACHINES, TOO?!
And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner
—White House press secretary Dana Perino on the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner, now five years old. What, exactly, should that banner have said? How about an asterisk?
Grass below you, sky above
Craplist was started in San Fierro in 1995 by some basement dwelling sociopaths with the simple mission of creating a computer-based online forum where users can sell stolen bicycles and meet up at lunch time to give a stranger head. … Capitalists don’t understand us. Newspapers hate us. Stalkers love us. Craplist is here to stay. We are you.
—One of many, many parodies in Grand Theft Auto IV
Nifty New York Times slideshow on the politics of Asheville, NC, my hometown [via the lovely and talented Moeria]
Facebook in real life [via Airbag]
Best I can figure, this is a real campaign not just a cheeky jab at commercialism as philanthropy
My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian. Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos.
—Dimitris Lambrou, who is suing to take back the word lesbian.