February 2010
11 posts
“Despite his sluggish appearance, he climbed the chess hierarchy at dazzling...”
– AFP: Magnus Carlsen, the prince of chess turned king
Carlsen wins Wijk aan Zee going away. →
Helter Skelter
The Bobs
The Bobs
“I do not wish to invent space aliens in order to shore up Communism. I wish to...”
– Comrade Frenkel (from Adam Roberts’ Yellow Blue Tibia)
“If American workers had been rewarded for 100 percent of their increases in...”
– Post-Superbowl Strategies - David Madland
You Can’t Sit Down
Hound Dog Taylor and...
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Ella Fitzgerald
...
Motorist: (sound of honking and squealing brakes)
Girl 1: ...and so, uh, Abby was, is that her name? Yeh, Abby was there and that made me really mad...
Motorist: Are you girls blind?
Girl 2: What's her problem?
Girl 1: Abby, she's just stuck up.
Girl 2: No, I mean hers. Geez.
Motorist: Get out of the road!
Girl 3: Wait, which Abby? The blonde? I hate those scarves she wears.
Motorist: (honks)
Girl 1: Really, what is her problem?
Me: You're crossing against the light!
Girl 3: What?
Me: You're walking in the middle of traffic.
Girl 1: What?
Girl 2: Omigod! Who is that guy? What is his problem?
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This is a test, my friends. An experiment. I am reminded that not so many years ago a Polish mathematician thought that there was a chance that an experiment he had helped to devise would set the atmosphere of the earth on fire, ending human life. I suppose this is why the United States government — it was under their authority that the test was performed — picked a humid equatorial...
Drivin’ Nails in my Coffin
Ernest Tubb...
Taj Mahal - Blind Boy Rag
Track 2, Side B
De Ole...