“Thank you, biathlon, for having athletes ski around with rifles on their backs. In America, we love sports where players run around with guns, but we just call it the NBA.”
—Jimmy Fallon
February 2010
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Last Clucks: The Death of a Chicken →
food.theatlantic.com
Curiosity killed the bird hater.
I read it after scanning past the picture but not before shutting my laptop screen when the picture came up. This was during class, too. Thanks for nothing!
*audrey don’t read this, its about killing a chicken
Completely off topic from the original post, but this reminds me of a story of the SFHS days when a certain friend (who has a fear of birds) and I were first starting to hang out. On our way to watch a hockey game starring Darren G., we ventured into the shopping center with Marina Foods in San Jose. That was the first day I was introduced to Avocado flavored Pearl Tea.
As we pulled into the parking lot, my friend from the passengers seat exclaims: OH MY GOD, THAT IS DISGUSTING! A pigeon had been hit and/or run over by a car and subsequently splattered on the parking lot pavement.
Not fully understanding this particular person’s ‘fear’, I drove closer to to it, attempting to scare her. Instead of closing her eyes and avoiding the gruesome sight, she pressed her face up against my car window, and covered her mouth as her jaw dropped to the floor. As disgusted as she was, she couldn’t look away. Then reality set in, and she started gagging, no longer able to look.
Then we got our avocado pearl tea, and went to the game.
“Is Charisse profintraining?”
—Chris “I stalk tumblrs but am to good to get one” Ot
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“it would be kinda cool to say……..where do u work? o i work at kaiser…..what are you some sort of doctor or nurse……naw i am a doctor of numbers, baby.”
—Marko
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America →
theatlantic.com
This article is really really long and frankly I didn’t even read the whole thing yet. The section titled The Recession and America’s Youth is very interesting, here’s an excerpt:
“Examining national longitudinal data, Mossakowski has found that people who were unemployed for long periods in their teens or early 20s are far more likely to develop a habit of heavy drinking (five or more drinks in one sitting) by the time they approach middle age. They are also more likely to develop depressive symptoms. Prior drinking behavior and psychological history do not explain these problems—they result from unemployment itself. And the problems are not limited to those who never find steady work; they show up quite strongly as well in people who are later working regularly.”
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“The Wire, HBO. Ostensibly a cop series with a story to tell about the drug war in America’s inner city (Baltimore, in this case), “The Wire” over five seasons was really an insanely ambitious, intimately detailed historical document about institutional failure on all levels - cops, criminals, courts, politics, schools and newspapers. Dense, novelistic, painful, funny, real and transformative all at once. “The Wire” is the best television series ever made. Period.”
—Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle
Wookieepedia you know, for Wookies →
wookieepedia.org
Definitely one of the most unique websites I’ve seen.
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Amazon selling 'Nothing' only $0.01 →
amazon.com
Better buy before it sells out.
