Memo from the Sigh-I’m-Getting-Old Department
Posted on April 28, 2009 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Knee Jerk Reactions, Radio | Leave a Comment
Co-signed by the Wasted-Opportunity Sub-committee.
WFMU’s youngest DJ was introduced to PJ Harvey, Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers–in the womb. Says the sixteen-year-old (source NY Mag):
I’ve loved music since I was in my mom’s tummy, dancing to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and PJ Harvey. As a kid, I had such a tight obsession [...]
Steve Holt!!
Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Knee Jerk Reactions | Leave a Comment
CRED
Read More..>>get your “man sized wad”
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under Food, Kids These Days | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GyEkvqtHPs
brought up in the ever amusing JoPo comments
kerning fail
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Photographs, Sex | Leave a Comment
from failblog (of course)
Read More..>>Smells Like Government
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Music, The Man Stickin It To Us, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
All ages shows in Omaha? lazy-i breaks it down….
It’s been about 20 years since I’ve been to an Omaha City Council meeting, and in that time nothing has changed about the council chambers — the paneled décor, the dirty upholstered chairs, the institutional florescent lighting. The place even smells the same, a mixture of dust, [...]
Short Attention Span Musings: Easter 2008 edition
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music, Politics, Sports, Television | Leave a Comment
Anyone else notice the heavy influx of commercial interruptions to March Madness this year? The one time I bothered to keep track, we had 9 minutes of commercials interrupted by 35 seconds of PT. Maybe DVR has spoiled me, but I was forced to tape the game and turn off the TV [...]
Read More..>>no bus stops
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Sports | Leave a Comment
and apparently some people have never heard of 4 square.
Read More..>>1990
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days | Leave a Comment
If you were born in 1990 before this date, you can legally purchase cigarettes.
Also you probably don’t recognize this video.
All Roads Lead To Waterloo
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Music | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pS5xzOWbwo
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Read More..>>crayons will never die
Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Kids These Days, Language | Leave a Comment
…just multiply
crayons
via Maud.
bonus points for making me wonder if I say “cray-on” or “cran”. I think something closer to “cran”, but not quite.
net division
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
myspace:greasers::facebook:socs?
Read More..>>“plagiarize” likely a given
Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Language | Leave a Comment
100 words every high school graduate should know. I’ll come back later and quantify my lexical deficiencies.
Read More..>>student paper covers racial issues, school system panics
Posted on April 13, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Race, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Ahhh…the crucible that is high school journalism. Benson (Omaha) High School’s student newspaper ran an apparently thoughtful and well-received issue about the so-called n-word (that would be ‘nigger’ for those scoring at home). OPS assures the community that “Appropriate action will ensue upon the completion of the investigation.” Uh, okay.
Other fun facts from the [...]
with crosses made of pipes and planks
Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Money, Religion | 1 Comment
I may have to swing by: “Christian graffiti artists and hip-hop evangelists will perform.”.
Read More..>>bring back dick lit?
Posted on January 9, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Writers | Leave a Comment
The Rake, in excellent form, on “confessional fatherhood”:
Take, for example, Pollack*. His shtick has been consistently clownish, but you have to remember that he’s the very special scold who came out a few years ago against writerly post-9/11 pontification on the War on Terror. To be specific, he told everyone to shut the [...]
Greatest Sentence Ever (Today)?
Posted on August 25, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Scatology, Television | Leave a Comment
There is often much talk of what book or record you would choose to keep you company on a deserted desert island. “F That!” we say at BMK. I would be happy to read this single sentence from Slate.
In 2002’s “Battle of the Best,” celebrity eminences Coolio and Picabo Street selected “Quad Squad,” a video [...]
At this point, I’ll start taking Moral victories from the Royals
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under Food, Kids These Days, Sports | Leave a Comment
And yes, making 13 year old boys cry is a moral victory:
I was at an Orioles game, sitting pretty far back in left-center, right next to the visitors’ bullpen. In Camden Yards, the bullpens are on a hill, so you can look directly into the bullpen dugout. The players are maybe 15-20 feet away behind [...]
Tienes comfort?
Posted on June 7, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Kids These Days, Money, Politics, Race, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
A few years ago, I visited Chile with my family after graduating from college. After landing in Santiago and paying my $50 Reciprocal Visa Fee, literally the first words out of my mouth were “¿Donde esta el baño”, putting my four years of high-school Spanish to good use. It didn’t take me long to also [...]
Read More..>>Thus Spoke Internetustra
Posted on June 6, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Sports | Leave a Comment
“It has been so long since the Royals were good that Carl Everett must wonder whether competitive Kansas City teams ever walked the face of the earth.” – Jim Baker
“In this crazy patriarchal world we live in, we are doing our part to balance the energy. We are proud to announce the completion of our [...]
Yakov Smirnoff Sighting
Posted on May 15, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
“Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master’s degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates.”
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