October 2008
“MySpace and Facebook have, in a way, made social climbing an outdated concept....”
– Lauren Collins, The New Yorker (via betaworks)
PALINdrome →
Palin gets more web love than I ever could have imagined. Posted by Zeb in Politics - Link to this Entry
YouTube - The Young Punx - "You've got to..."... →
Posted by Zeb in Music - Link to this Entry
YouTube - Tim Minchin - Not Perfect →
It’s fine. It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time. Posted by Zeb in Fun - Link to this Entry
¡Calling All Internets! →
I’m totally enthralled by the 2 Zeitgeist movies now, and the potent questions that they raise. I’m not a fanboy of the movies, and I tend to agree with the criticisms leveled by Kinney in the linked review.
But why isn’t anyone taking on the job of shoring up or knocking down the assertions made in these documentaries? The commenters echo this frustration. I’m calling on...
“To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane.
The flight...”
– David Sedaris on undecided voters via (via mattmcinerney)
Mom's late-night revelations
mymomisafob:
Hi John, I have watched the DVD that really gives me more release and comfort. I feel much better now. When you first told me on the street, my heart was shaking and full of pain, yet, I didn’t show it to you as I do not want to let you know that I was shocked.
When I know you are a gay, right away I have been thinking the sex, nothing else. That’s why I always ask who is the...
Terrence Howard Talks Tunes, Family, Science : NPR →
I like this interview.
“I never felt grown until two weeks ago,” he says. “Two weeks ago, I became a grown man, because no longer did I have a light to follow. I had to become that light.”
But Howard says he is pleased that his mother got to hear his debut CD before she died, and that she was proud of his successes.
“This was her dream, to be an actor and a...
WatchCatchy Aussie clip, via Zadi Diaz.
My iPhone just served me up Carlon’s Murder...
My other versions are all m4a’s, so Billie...