Looking for a signs of the apocalypse? Look no further than the recent spike in ax-murders. After the New York Times was kind enough to devote front page space (below the fold) on the brutal ax-murder of a 13 year-old settler, I wondered why an israeli teenager killed by an ax while being forced by [...]
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Axpocalypse Now
Posted in frumious bandersnatch, political free speech on April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Anarchist Chic
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You probably didn’t know this, but the main reason that anyone ever shows up to those anarchist rallies is girls. That’s right, folks, just like everything man has ever accomplished, anarchism is yet another way to impress the ladies. However, this is no ordinary I’m-just-doing-this-to-get-laid type of situation. A dedicated anarchist, like a 24 year [...]
Poor Millionaires
Posted in frumious bandersnatch on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s the latest installment of The New York Times’ fascinating series “why the richest people in America are also the most important!” This piece reveals the utterly selfless devotion to mankind demonstrated by a particular AIG financial products VP, who is totally selflessly quitting AIG because the American people selfishly stole back his “earnings.” In [...]
lightning bulb
Posted in frumious bandersnatch on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our dreams are as kites on strings; effortlessly soaring, but quietly waiting to be yanked from the heavens to the sod. They are not meant to be more than we are.
As children we imagine the impossible, and the fantasy flourishes easily, comfortably, and without judgment. As adults, we thresh our thoughts, parsing the productive from [...]
In Which I Combine Nutter Butters With Ritz Bits
Posted in blah school, frumious bandersnatch on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The curse of perfectionism is that it can compel you to follow through on a terrible, despicable mistake, even after you know what you’re doing is horribly, blood-curdlingly wrong. Do Not Mix Nutter Butters with Ritz Bits. Don’t do it.
They tell you not to mix advil and alcohol, not to dry your hair [...]
Bloviators!
Posted in frumious bandersnatch on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t be any geek off the street. Gotta be handy with deceit, if you know what I mean, earn your keep! Bloviators! Mic up!
San Francisco is Bill O’Reilly’s latest target. His producer’s footage looks positively Berkeleyesque! Note how he comments that he wouldn’t go to The Presidio at night, and that Fisherman’s Wharf (the [...]
the monday to end all mondays
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today in my cubicle, which is far less oppressive than it looks in writing, I overheard a co-worker describe this as the ultimate monday, sluggish from the feasts and family of Thanksgiving and aprehensive of frenzied shopping, planning, travelling, and loose-end-tying that mars the otherwise wonderful month of December. It was grey today, which gives [...]
Themeback Loop
Posted in frumious bandersnatch on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Should this blog have a theme? A lot of blogs do. Themes are great for attracting a specific audience, for advancing a particular agenda, for promoting discourse amongst bloggers, and so-on. But the idea of “themes” vaguely irks me.
My concern is with the creation of feedback loops. There’s something subtly problematic [...]
its a bird, its a plane, its a chinatown bus!
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch, tagged animal-slaves, musketry, pirates, revolution, the elderliest on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As my bus rolls through the skeletal forests of the midatlantic, I’m reminded of this ancestral, deeply patriotic idea that Americans are men and women who eek out an existence in a harsh world, yeomen who want only what they rightly deserve; Spartan farmers wearing French wigs and eating Indian grain and drinking English tea. [...]
