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July 18, 2001 | Issue 37•24

The World's Most Famous Bald Eagle

On televised newscasts and on his Web site, Colbert said he has been disappointed by Stephen Jr.'s excursions to Canada. When Stephen Jr. first crossed into Canadian airspace in August 2006, Colbert noted Junior was feasting on fresh Canadian salmon, looking for Vietnam draft dodgers and stopping terrorist pigeons from crossing the border.

On his Web site, Colbert offers factoids about Stephen Jr., including, "He could take your arm off. Hates pelicans, just like his Dad."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008568404_colberteagle29m.html

Bon Iver

NPR is giving him best song of the year.

That's-a-good-one:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98637616

At first my expectations dropped, then I started to love it about half way.
High then low expectations may just be the secret to joy.

Another MPKism

"Never trust a bar that opens at 10:30 in the morning, unless, of course, it's 10:30 in the morning."

Why?

"Because people that use PCs have jobs."
- Mathew Phillip King

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Wow

I don't know what else to say. Wow.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney/barneycam2008.wm.v.html

Hot Pants for Harvey

Come Fools Come all

All right my loris faced friends, it's time to get serious about gathering in February 2009. Ty has mentioned the weekend of 2/6/09 through 2/9/09. No one has said these dates don't work, so I'm going ahead. I'm getting my plane ticket this weekend. Matt just gave me a maybe. Jim said he'd come, but we all know that's BS, so AJ and I are going to hog tie him and send him in a box. So we have Ty, Tim, Ry, AJ, and Jim.

Dan, Chris, and Vinny we need you guys to get on this gravy train to celebrate the birth of TY, Chris, and Tim's engagement.

Joy

Over the past weeks, I have had a peace, a happiness.
Leaping through the night streets like a cracked out ninja swinging my wooden stick, laughing, smiling, dancing, and relaxing.
It comes
not as an arduous trek across a desert,
not as the slow epiphany of a sunrise,
not through her hand on my back,
not from the depths of a dark booze filled well,

not during in a moment of clarity with blood on my lip,
not through a canvass that fills me with pride,
not through work,
but like that beautiful girl, the tease, who enflames my chest and loins, and fills me with hope, but never
promises consistency, dependency, or duration.

For Space Monkey

Obama Pride Floods the Streets of Capitol Hill

Ryan and Jim were there. I got a text from Ryan as my plane pulled up to the gate. Jim called while I was on the tram with a hundred other dehydrated, exhausted people who spent the last 5 hours with me, sitting crammed together, uninformed. I knew it was Jim, but all I could hear was elated screaming. I looked around at the somber faces. My friend Porter led the crowd in the national anthem and his writeup gives a good idea of what I missed.

Winter visits

Hey y'all, there are some cheap tickets to Denver for the weekend of Feb. 7-8, we could celebrate my birthday and belatedly Ry's and Chris's as well. We could also give Timmy a little bachelor party.

And if you haven't been to visit AJ, Ryan, and Jim here's an article about their neighborhood.

Us in a nutshell

I think someone may have already posted this link but it's pretty hilarious. Especially since last Sunday I...:

1. Drank coffee
8. saw Barack Obama
23. Drank a microbrew
12&44. Donated to my local NPR station

and many others

On another note and to further our whiteness, who wants to go skiing this winter, what times would work?

NC Pics

Here are all of my pics from NC. Indoor ones came out blurry for some reason, but it gave a cool effect on this pic at least:

Thanks Harvey

Harvey reminded me of a little project I started but never finished, so thanks to Harvey for inspiring me to further procrastinate from all the other shit I probably should be doing. Enjoy.

From NC Best

Warning

Once Dad gets a hold of this blog he may never again leave the house:
http://futurismic.com/

For example, he might be interested in this little ditty:
http://futurismic.com/2007/09/07/frickin-laser-beams-to-power-japan/

Space Monkey, by contrast, might be more interested in the fiction section.

Regardless, this should help fuel some ridiculous conversations over whiskey and cigars at our next meeting.

This message brought to you by the southwest flight magazine and sent from the Googleplex. Who's the nerd now?

May Result in Sparkle Babies

OMG

Can you get the New Yorker in Canada?

If not, I'm not going...

Pirates?

For Real.

Somali Pirates Tell All: They’re in It for the Money

Irony

irony

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
i·ro·ny1

1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

2. Literature.
a. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
b. (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.

3. ty's irony.
Going to see the Big Lebowski at New Belgium Brewery, which was a memorial for a CSU grad student who was killed by a drunk driver with she was riding her bike this summer. Then in true little achiever fashion managed to drink too many Caucasians and Fat tires, and crashed on my own bike, hitting the sidewalk head first. A fall that should have caused considerable damage. Except that given said drunken state, it merely resulted in loss of skin to my right cheek, a swollen eye, and considerable embarrassment when Anna's parents came to visit this weekend. (I'm a fucking idiot!)

Sarah's got a plan for us

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Check out Abby on Chicago News

Ha

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_in_photos/inside_obamas_emails

Guy Photographs Himself Everyday for 17 years

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Oh. My. Goodness.

Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger

Nuff Said.

Aussie, aussie, aussie

http://view.break.com/352629 - Watch more free videos

Ok so this is a joke, but it's pretty funny.

Large Hadron Collider Rap

Seriously guys...I don't think there's anything I like more than science raps. I'm pretty sure there were some good ones back on 3-2-1 Contact. Possibly Mr. Wizard. My internet skills are not good enough to find them.

Make sure you watch at least a minute or so.

Apparently

I'm only blogging about 2 Girls 1 Cup, but I thought this xkcd comic was hilarious.

I snorted my diet coke while watching...

You need to have seen "Two Girls, One Cup" in order to get this. But presumably everyone's cherry has been popped on that front. Enjoy.

Uh oh...

Ratatat

I thought Harvey would like this one...

Not so tough now - Leopard hunts crocodile

On the list of things to do, hunting crocodiles is pretty high up in bad-ass factor. This gives me a new found respect for cats.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/22/content_8744711.htm

I am the Law

Cooter just sent this to me. And I can't stop laughing.
Maybe I should dedicate my life to people of The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/no_values_voters_looking_to

And this one is wonderful death penalty goodness:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/supreme_court_rules_death_penalty?utm_source=videomrss_82237

...Which makes no sense, because hanging out is like the easiest thing.

I'm glad none of us have this problem

Post Union Hall

Dan, do you even remember this?

Victor Wooten on NPR

There's a pretty excellent story about Victor Wooten of Bela Fleck fame on NPR. I was going to just send it to Ty since he's a dirty dirty hippy, but then I thought: well i haven't posted on the blog in like 5 years, maybe I should put it there. Enjoy by clicking here!

The website is down!

I'm guessing this is probably not new, but it is absolutely hilarious. Pretty long video, but well worth watching.

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

Hard Choice

It's a little unclear which one I dislike more - the barista or the woman who finds the whole thing "frightening".

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/05/20/jung.bikini.coffee.king

This is what happens when I go online to find out the election results.

Local band out of Colorado. Pretty cool song.

http://www.universalmusic.com/premiere-play/Flobots/Handlebars/1534502575

Scrabulous

Heard about this on NPR on friday.

Fuck Grapefruit

"Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn't be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock? Fuck coconuts."

Just in time....

just what we all need, a device to allow us to be depressed about the woes of the world in real time

Grays Harbor Paper

One interesting man's vision of a sustainable community, revolving around a paper factory:

http://www.greenbiz.com/news/reviews_third.cfm?NewsID=36519

Also some interesting facts on paper, for example:

According to the EPN's State of the Paper Industry report published in early 2007, paper accounts for 25 percent of landfill waste, the largest single component. It's also a significant contributor to climate change. Forty-two percent of the industrial wood harvest goes to make paper. Nine percent of total manufacturing carbon dioxide emissions come from pulp and paper manufacturing, with the majority stemming from the energy production needed to power pulp and paper mills.

"We don't think about paper, we don't think about printing -- it's about 6 percent of our GDP," said Don Carli, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Communications.

Think about that the next time you print one of my blog posts.

And the winner is... (drum roll please)

Exactly who they thought it was 400 years ago! Thanks for wasting our time conspiracy theorists!

This is just like my life

Except instead of a woman in the tree with me I just have a smelly space monkey.