The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
    Deadman's picture

    Questions: The Ipod Shuffle Edition ...

    By Deadman on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 2:48pm | Arts & Entertainment, Potpourri

    Partly inspired by Prophet and his ongoing top 10 albums of 2008 series, and partly because I'm otherwise uninspired, I've decided to take a different tact for this week's questions: I am going to press shuffle on my IPod Nano and create a question somehow related to each of the first 10 songs that come up. I will also be giving some very quick commentary on the songs.

    I am uncertain how well this process will lend itself to thought-provoking questions, and I will certainly be risking great personal embarrassment by exposing my music collection to the dagworld at large.

    Topics: 
    Arts & Entertainment
    Potpourri
    Series: 
    Questions
    Prophet's picture

    Top Ten Albums of '08 - Number 9

    By Prophet on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 6:17pm | Arts & Entertainment

    9. Neon Neon - Stainless Steel

    I'm sorry but any outfit who can put out an album that sounds like the music I listened to when I was 8, and make it sound pretty fantastic along the way, deserves to be in the top 10 in this very down year for music.

    Topics: 
    Arts & Entertainment
    Mortimus's picture

    The Shoe Bomber Returns (aka The George Bush Shoe Throwing Video) + 10

    By Mortimus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 3:28pm | Humor & Satire

     


    1. Honestly the most impressed I've ever been with Bush

    2. You heard it here first: Obama's toast in Presidential dodgeball

    Topics: 
    Humor & Satire
    Mortimus's picture

    Barry Sanders Jr. - Video + 10

    By Mortimus on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 4:03pm | Sports

    Yea, he's a freshman in high school.

    Behold...

     

    A few quick thoughts:

    1. So if he's Barry to his father Bobby Bonds that means....oh this kid is doomed

    Topics: 
    Sports
    Orlando's picture

    Stop the Presses: Feminists to Blame for the Economic Crisis!

    By Orlando on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 9:52am | Social Justice

    The other night, I was talking to a friend when she suggested that feminists were to blame for the current economic crisis. It was hyperbole, I’m certain. Although at the time I changed the subject because I was so shocked to learn that she felt that way.

    Topics: 
    Social Justice
    Prophet's picture

    Prophesy Served Up By SNL

    By Prophet on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 1:15am | Politics

    I've been trying for years now to track down the video of the hypothetical 'State of the Union' done by Will Farrell on the eve of the 2000 election, but the best I could ever come up with was a transcript.  If you remember, Darrell Hammond also did one where Gore went over homework that he had given out to the different States while sitting in front of a supercomputer.

    I suppose now that it's almost all over, NBC finally feels that it's safe to unearth this eerie piece of prophesy that aired on November 3rd, 2000.

    Topics: 
    Politics
    Prophet's picture

    Top Ten Albums of '08 - Number 10

    By Prophet on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 6:47pm | Arts & Entertainment

    We'll be working our way from 10 down to one. 

    Oh, by the way, just to introduce myself - I'm prophet and I know the future.

    Moving on...

    10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

    Topics: 
    Arts & Entertainment
    Orlando's picture

    Stuff I Learned: John Adams

    By Orlando on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 3:43pm | Humor & Satire

    My reading of The American Presidency by Alan Brinkely continues. Chapter Two: John Adams. Here's what I learned...

    Adams grew up in the country town of Braintree, Massachusetts. They later changed the name of the town to Quincy to disguise the fact that the uncommon intelligence of the townspeople was attributed to a tea made from the leaves of the magical tree.

    Topics: 
    Humor & Satire
    Mortimus's picture

    The 3 conspiracies of week 14

    By Mortimus on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 3:32pm | Humor & Satire

    You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Conspiracy Zone!


    Conspiracy #1
    Detroit is preparing to make the Lions the crown jewel of the city

    Topics: 
    Humor & Satire

    Pages