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AC has left the world of Rock (management) behind for a career in careerism. He lives with his beautiful and charming wife in Cranston, RI. AC Chillin’ is AC’s successful rap alter ego.

Barack Obama’s Big Mistake

Finally, something to bring down Obama. Oliver Willis has it all figured out. Scandalous. (Via Balloon Juice)

2008 05 09 Politics Comments (0)

Now They’re Sending CARTOONS about Bacon

xkcd says it all about a lot of things, now it’s saying it all about bacon.

2008 05 08 Blog Comments (0)

75 Things Men Should Be Able to Do

This list of 75 things every guy, well, really everyone, needs to know is interesting mostly because I think there’s an entire genre of books of lists like these fleshed out. In any case, my favorites?

52. Step into a job no one wants to do. When I was 13, my dad called me into his office at the large urban mall he ran. He was on the phone. What followed was a fairly banal 15-minute conversation, which involved the collection of rent from a store. On and on, droning about store hours and lighting problems. I kept raising my eyebrows, pretending to stand up, and my dad kept waving me down. I could hear only his end, garrulous and unrelenting. He rolled his eyes as the excuses kept coming. His assertions were simple and to the point, like a drumbeat. He wanted the rent. He wanted the store to stay open when the mall was open. Then suddenly, having given the job the time it deserved, he put it to an end. “So if I see your gate down next Sunday afternoon, I’m going to get a drill and stick a goddamn bolt in it and lock you down for the next week, right?” When he hung up, rent collected, he took a deep breath. “I’ve been dreading that call,” he said. “Once a week you gotta try something you never would do if you had the choice. Otherwise, why are you here?” So he gave me that. And this…

53. Sometimes, kick some ass.

2008 05 07 Blog Comments (1)

Something Other than Love in an Elevator

This video of a man’s 41 hour ordeal in a New York elevator is chilling. I am chilled.

2008 04 15 Internet Frippery Comments (0)

Fuck John McCain Part 2

You have to think that at some point the media will start calling John McCain on shit like this. Just because a politician grills for them doesn’t make him a good guy and I just wish they’d see it.

2008 04 06 Politics Comments (0)

Hawk attack at Fenway Park

In light of a recent hawk attack at Fenway Park and prior experiences, I’d definitely say Boston has a problem. How long will we allow ourselves to be terrorized by these assassins of the sky? It has been long enough and I will not take it anymore.

But really, how cool, right?

2008 04 04 Blog Comments (0)

Bacon Bra

Seriously folks, even if I wanted to stop posting bacon related links, people would keep sending them to me. Here’s a bacon bra sent over by Karmen. I can’t think of many things grosser than uncooked bacon, though a bra made out of cooked bacon would be a lot less comfortable (I’m just guessing).

(Via Jezebel via World of Wonder via Found Shit)

2008 04 04 Food Comments (2)

Bacon Scarf

Chapter X in the saga of friends sending me bacon related nonsense, a Felted Bacon Scarf on Etsy sent to me by Lillian. It really is remarkable how lifelike the bacon scarf is.

2008 04 01 Food Comments (1)

Dodgers touch Colon for run in fourth

An unfortunate and eminently avoidable headline makes me giggle. I’m such a child. And you are too.

2008 03 30 Sports Comments (0)

Most Recent Music

I have the ability to fall in love with an album if I listen to it enough times, and though I haven’t tested this out with any atrocious music, it happens with just about any album I listen to X times. Because of this, I’ve decided the X in this equation should become my new music rating system. Anyway, in the interest of not waiting to fall in love with any of the albums below, I’m going to provide an estimate to X for the most recent additions to my music collection. The lower the number, the more strongly I feel about it. In a good way.

Monochrome: Helmet (2006) 20

Friday Night Lights Soundtrack: Explosions in the Sky (2004) 10

A Poet’s Life: Tim Armstrong (2007) 5

Eardrum: Talib Kweli (2007) 20

Icky Thump: The White Stripes (2007) 75

There Will Be Blood Soundtrack: Jonny Greenwood (2007) 20

Field Manual: Chris Walla (2008) 5

2008 03 30 Music Comments (1)

Jericho Season 2

Rating: 3 stars

***

After being canceled at the end of last season, Jerichowas granted a rare reprieve by CBS in the hopes that a small number of passionate fans would be able to create a hit. Unfortunately, this was not to be and we were left with a 7 episode second season full of too rushed stories culminating in exceptional ending (that is, if exceptional meant, “We’ve got to end it some way while also leaving open the possibility of a third season”). Still Jericho, a Red Dawn knock-off came closer to showing a society rebuilding itself after a disaster than other works in the apocolypse genre (I am Legend, 28 Days and Weeks Later, etc), and for that, I am eternally grateful.

(As an asside, I’m not sure why Jericho isn’t the perfect Saturday night TV show for one of the networks. It’s like the A-Team for a new generation, and if Friday Night Lights can find life on Direct TV, why can’t Jericho?)

2008 03 28 Television Comments (0)

Why I love Easter.

Peeps and chocolate bunnies.

(WARNING: If you can’t stand the thought of a chocolate bunny being melted in several different ways, don’t watch the chocolate bunny video. Also, if you can’t fathom the thought of Peeps as marshmallow overlords, don’t click the peep link.)

****
Updated to add: Peeps for Passover.

2008 03 23 Internet Frippery Comments (0)

The Hoax (2006)

Rating: 2 stars

**

The Hoax tells the story of a struggling author who convinces a publisher to pay him big bucks to write an authorized biography of Howard Hughes, only trouble being there was no authorization. It wasn’t that good and it wasn’t that bad and it was acted unremarkably though not poorly. If the producers of The Hoax set out to create an utterly and aggressively mediocre movie, they were astonishingly successful.

2008 03 21 Movies Comments (0)

Once (2006)

Once is refreshing in it’s unabashed and remorseless sappiness. My lizard brain wasn’t able to handle the ending, though, which they might have to remake for the US release of the DVD. Movies made outside the US are not like movies made in the US.

2008 03 20 Movies Comments (1)

The Wire Season 5

I can’t review The Wire Season 5 without spoiling it for those who haven’t seen it, but I’ll do my best. There’s a scene towards the end of the last episode where a character has a monologue pretty much summing up the entire 5 season run of The Wire and I was thinking, “This is what the show has always been about,” and then something unexpected happens summing up the series EVEN BETTER. I don’t know what else to say except that I wish there was going to be The Wire Season 6.

2008 03 16 Television Comments (4)

How to Not Bang a Prostitute - Eliot Spitzer Flow Chart

How difficult is it not to hire four thousand dollar prostitutes? I saw this question and wanted to try to answer it, especially coming from the mindset of a politician. You never know, it’s tempting. That damn Emperor’s Club VIP makes it so easy. So I made a flow chart! Every politician should print out the full flow chart and use it in everyday prostitution related decision making. It would be best if no more golden boys were beset by faulty logic, so in the future, I hope they use the Eliot Spitzer Flow Chart.

Spitzer Small
(Click image to enlarge) (Thanks to Eric and Mike for image help, to Brian for prostitutional knowledge)

2008 03 14 Politics Comments (8)

Friday Night Lights Season 2

Rating: 4 stars

****

Although Friday Night Lights Season 2 unabashedly started with a transparent audience grab in the first couple episodes, the season calmed down to deliver enough of what I like about it to keep me loyal and hoping for a satelite savior. In Season 2, football became less of a focus as the series continued it’s “issues based” writing: one week it’s teen sex/pregnancy, one week it’s race, one week it’s stealing from a meth dealer, even the mortgage crisis impacted Riggins this year. I’m hoping for a couple more seasons, if only to see how the creators deal with the problem facing every high school drama - graduation - though, admittedly, keeping a high school football player back a year, and in the series another season, isn’t even that big of a stretch.

2008 03 10 Television Comments (0)

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Rating: 2 stars

**

I still don’t know exactly what Be Kind Rewind was trying to do, but I also am not totally sold on the idea that a movie (or a work of art in general) can’t just be about entertainment without needing a message. In Be Kind Rewind, you always knew what was going to happen, which didn’t reduce it’s enjoyment that much. It’s just, what did end up happening wasn’t THAT great, you know?

2008 03 08 Movies Comments (0)

Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen

Rating: 1 star

*

Simple and lazy writing, crap dialogue, headache and fury-inducing narrative, and neon-lit plot twist telegraphing. All of these and so much more tripe leaves this book undesserving of my typical three sentence review.

2008 03 08 Books Comments (1)

Charts and Graphs

Scientific RickRolling.

2008 03 03 Internet Frippery Comments (2)