Pat Rock on Apr 12th, 2010YouTube - Travis Pastrana Backflip Big Wheel all 3 attempts
This is clearly right into OMFG territory.
1. Travis Pastrana
2. Big Wheel
3. Big Ramp
4. …
5. Profit
YouTube - Travis Pastrana Backflip Big Wheel all 3 attempts.
Pat Rock on Mar 24th, 2010BBC News - Rove ‘proud’ of US waterboarding terror suspects
BBC News - Rove ‘proud’ of US waterboarding terror suspects.
I think by this point everyone (or at least everyone who reads this blog) has seen this, but I’m posting it for posterity’s sake.
Remember remember…
Pat Rock on Mar 22nd, 2010French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment - Telegraph
French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment - Telegraph.
Hahahaha. Oh Wacky US of A medical experiments on unsuspecting populations. That never gets old. Hey, the French should be grateful. At least they got some top shelf synthesized LSD and not SYPHILIS!
Pat Rock on Mar 17th, 2010What’s In Those David Foster Wallace Archives
The New Yorker details the David Foster Wallace Archive
Unexpectedly cool.
Pat Rock on Mar 12th, 2010The Untold Story of Finian’s Rainbow
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog » Finian’s Rainbow - alt.
Walt Disney, who took the strike as a personal attack, found the opportunity to exact revenge on his renegade employees when he testified as a “friendly witness” before HUAC on October 24, 1947. He painted them bright Red. The strike, said Disney, was organized by “a [...]
Pat Rock on Mar 11th, 2010Leo and the Bear
Leo and the Bear.
I randomly found these awesomely cute pictures of a polar bear cub at Vanity Fair and thought you should, you know, check ‘em out. Or something.
Also, Annie Liebowitz shot them.
Kinda weird:
Pat Rock on Mar 9th, 2010Op-Ed Contributor - My So-Called Wife - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - My So-Called Wife - NYTimes.com.
If you and your wife both work then you’ll enjoy this write-up of our modern predicament:
I don’t know how it’s going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy. In [...]
Pat Rock on Mar 9th, 2010GOP Hates The Unemployed
In what’s sure to be a winning strategy in an election year* Republicans express disdain for the unemployed:
“You know,” DeLay said, “there is an argument to be made that these extensions of these unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs.” When CNN’s Candy Crowley described his argument as “a hard sell” to [...]
Pat Rock on Mar 8th, 2010Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest plus Monday Jam
Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest - cbs13.com. This stuff happens so regularly that its not really worth commenting on. Just a little life lesson, if you ever meet someone who is constantly and permanently freaked out about the Gay Agenda it’s probably because what they’re really freaked out about is [...]
Pat Rock on Mar 4th, 2010Couple of Unrelated Old NY Times Articles
I had grabbes these to post during the holidays, but then never got around to it. But please don’t let that stop you from reading them. The Culture of Old Europe is particularly noteworthy and enjoyable if you like looking at primitive artifacts.
Culture of Old Europe Is Uncloaked in an Exhibit at N.Y.U. [...]