I confess: I haven't watched a single minute of the debates or the candidate interviews. But maybe that makes me a bad citizen. I mean, I bet supremely qualified vice presidential candidate and feminist...underestimating her. That is the only reasonable explanation for this. Like, literally. The only reasonable explanation for Sarah Palin is that she will turn into a killer robot. With guns for hands

You know, I cannot even put into words why Jordin Sparks and the general humorlessness of the VMAs bothered me so much. Somebody help me out. I mean, it made Katy Perry's banana-peeling seem positively...of that show should be shot. I only watched for fifteen minutes, and I managed to spot three separate stagehands doing their jobs. You wear black because you're supposed to be invisible, kids.

Today's "Writer's Block" suggestion: How do you feel about Pluto's recent demotion? Should it still be a planet? Way to stay on top of things, Livejournal.

Can we talk about WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ? When I was thirteen, I had one friend: television. Then one day I went with my dad to CVS to pick up my mom's prescriptions and there...the design too, flashes of sci-fi fan magazines in the text and the low-budget clutter.) "Our writing is too good! Our pages are too attractive! Change it!" Ugh. This is actually worse than Lucky

I spent approximately 300 hours in AP US History. I'm pretty sure they were the best 300 hours of my life, and they started with a lesson on propaganda . It's served me well, both as a reader and a writer...candidate for geezers and Obama as the candidate for change) and going on to float some doofus idea about Scientology, because when you have a good point, the best thing to do is totally bury it

The North Denver News published a bit of "social satire" as a news article , except it wasn't particularly clever, or incisive, and so nobody got that it was "social satire." The graceful thing to...nonsensical, and you know who would have found this joke totally funny ? Franz Kafka. They are just like Franz Kafka. Except not dead. You probably don't even know who Franz Kafka is . So there

I just want to work someplace like this: Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri and Vimeo .