True story, in Ellis’s own words:

Headline from the Christian Science Monitor:

That’s all. I’m not saying anything.

Just got this from JP via my electronic mail:

“Happy Armistice Day!”



If you think about it, that card and JP’s subsequent message play on a whole lot of levels, probably way more than he intended. And it kind of makes me sad. But mostly: Sigh.

Yaaaawwwwn… just waking up from my post-115 Day celebration hangover. What did I miss? That was a heckuva party. Wooo, doggies, don’t know if I could take all that more than twice a year.



Not sure if this is 100% Zack Condon sanctioned, but it’s still pretty neat. Somebody put a good bit of work into it if it’s not official.

Thanks to Cale for coming in first on wishing everyone good cheer on this glorious day, despite his time fail. Still, good try.



Drive like a maniac and climb through small windows, as is the custom.

Since Fletch mentioned it.  Also, shut up if you don’t already hold the opinion that the Pixies are better than Beethoven.  And, coming from your good friend Zack!, that’s saying a lot.

Yeah, I know–it was in “Fight Club.”  But it was a fucking good song before that–and The Hollywood could never change the Pixies…right?

Just noticed that Johnny Damon stole second base right before Mark Teixeira struck out to end Game 5 of the World Series. EXCEPT, Johnny Damon didn’t actually steal second base. Oh, he ran there, all right, and from first base. So why didn’t he get a stolen base? Because of defensive indifference.

Yep, because no one cared that Damon was stealing the base, he doesn’t get credit for stealing the base. How awesome is that? I love you, baseball.

Anyway, that’s always been my favorite play (or non-play) in the whole entire world, I just never made it official by putting it on the interweb. So here it is.

NY Post (blech, sorry):

‘THE Wire,” HBO’s gritty series about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard.

The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show’s stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.

The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.

“I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication,” Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, “including studies by social scientists.”

Best TV drama of all time.

I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow in NY-23, but watching the Republican candidate drop out because she can’t afford to fight both the Democratic candidate (who, apparently, is actually more conservative than the Republican, Scozzafava) and the ultra-wingnutty Doug Hoffman, makes me think back to when I mentioned how I thought that conservatives in the U.S. hadn’t even gotten close to hitting rock-bottom and would nominate even more ridiculous candidates in the next couple years. What’s really entertaining is that if Hoffman wins (and apparently he’s actually leading in the polls going into the election tomorrow, although that’s a whole lotta undecideds a day before an election) then the crazies are going to think that the proper strategy actually is to nominate even more of Teh Crazy.

As somebody or other said just the other day, we haven’t even gotten close to peak wingnut yet, y’all. There’s so much more insanity to go before this turns around. Grab your popcorn and buckle up.

Just got this message from longtime friend of the Agenda, Nutmeg, who spends his days hobnobbing with famous arty types in New York City:

I just walked into a bathroom to pee and Paul Simon was standing there. I said hello and immediately got pee fright.

Yep. Sounds about right.