Top Books of 2008

According to the New York Times.

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

We apparently have myriad reasons to vote for Barack Obama:

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

Each time you refresh the page it tells you something nice he's done for you. That you may not know. Go ahead. It feels good.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Sunday at Devil Dirt: Pitchfork Record Review

The latest. Isobel Campbell's voice makes me hurt. In a good way.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Sunday at Devil Dirt: Pitchfork Record Review

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas: Pitchfork Record Review

Need this album. Now.

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Pearls Before Modern Swine

Unbelievable, exhaustive article on a world-class violin performance that goes unnoticed in the bowels of the D.C. Metro.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

My only question is, are we really surprised?

Willpower

It took an article in the New York Times to prove to me that everything my dad told me as a shiftless, surly teenager was right:

Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind

Oh Yeah!

A good example of "guerilla" advertising. For what? The artist, I guess.


Amateurish, sloppy, and charming as hell.

Best Onion Story Ever?

Scathingly funny article on the former U.S. fossil, er, senator. I'm sad my kids will never get this.

Strom Thurmond Calls For Construction Of Transcontinental Railroad

WASHINGTON, DC-Citing the need for cheaper and faster shipping to the Western Territories, the need to unite the Republic after the long and bitter War Between The States, and the recent discovery of gold in the California region, U.

That Bloody Capital Cursive Q.

I've been out of elementary school for a long, long time now. And I still can't figure out why the uppercase letter "Q" becomes a "2" when you write it in cursive.

Who decided this? It's like Ye Olde Fashioned "s" that looks like an "f."

"We, the People of the United ftates of America..."

Completely confusing.

Except the cursive capital Q (that's really a 2) is still in use. And just like back in fourth grade, the CCQ frightens and confuses me. Par exemplar:

2uality Food.

2uitting time.

The 2ueen of England.

I'm convinced Beelzebub has a belly laugh whenever someone reads — and stumbles over — the cursed CCQ. It is evil incarnate. It should be rated a hard "R." (Fitting since Q and R are next to each other in the alphabet.)

Die, cursive Q! Vex humanity no more!