So, if there was ever anything you wanted saved (an article, a picture, a hi-larious comment) get to screen-capping or copying/pasting.

I'll keep a text version of the site around for posterity, but it won't look so pretty as the images start dropping out like teeth.

Anyway, in case you didn't catch the link -- I'm moving to this space. Slowly, but surely.

Click, press play and skip to 1:27; your life will be forever changed. Seriously.

Reference material can be viewed here.

Continuing the insanity is different from enabling the enemy.

Also, I'd like to think that the Bing ad is a kind of meta-tribute to eccentric behavior.

Sunday Night, Really Real from Aaron Kraus on Vimeo.

Yeah, why not.

Either Sprint knows something I don't (e.g., a new month is being released between May and June), or this widget is pretty accurately representing the Sprint experience I knew and loved until my contract expired and I jumped to T-Mobile.

Would you rather be a piece of garbage carried by a gentle breeze though a densely populated city or a piece of a corrugated tin roof being flung on hurricane-force winds across a great empty flatland?

Other choices that were contemplated:

• Blue Line train or a CTA bus?
• Gifted clown in an unpopular circus or Sideshow freak in popular carnival?

Clearly, the work of the Lunch Salon is critical to the betterment of society.

Seriously Adobe: Maybe you could add an option to Pre-flight that reviews and corrects bummy reflections.

Normally I'm against the crazy celebrity culture but I think I link People.com covering the drink ordering habits of celebrities. They're just like us, except lightweights...and obscenely rich for perplexing reasons.

It should be some measure of how dry my creative outlets have run that I'm now designing propaganda for a fictional multi-verse.

Enjoy.

Yeah, it was totally like that.

I promise to explain everything...eventually.

Oh totally, when I remember 9/11, the first thing I think of is the great injustice of it all.

Clearly--that's why you're proposing a thoughtful, respectful, well-considered monument that celebrates their lives without needing to exploit their deaths in the service of some creepy belief that their deaths were anything more than a tragedy of circumstance, duty, and spectacle...

I hate for "the terrorist" to win. That's why I joined Make 9/11 a National Holiday - The Facebook Cause. Totally.

As you'll notice, Jennifer is not amused by my apple trying to muscle in on her territory. Again, I apologize if you were expecting something of genuine quality. I'll get on that -- in due time.

Front page:

From the story:

Yeah, you waited all this time for that. Seriously though, you could always just check me out on Twitter...

With some minor adjustments to the source-logic, I think this would also work rather well with short fiction anthologies and even the GOP's 2012 platform.

It's absolutely amazing to me that these right-wing asshats whinge and bark at something they call nationalization ("It's just not American") but they have proven themselves proud supporters of that greatest of American untraditions -- torture. I get the sense that we're just a few rewrites of "24" away from having nationalization pass 100-0. Comeon, Paul Krugman as Jack Bauer is an idea with a certain dark-charm to it.

F'reals.

Seriously? I know it's too much to ask for him to choose his words carefully, but saying that it was a "disappointment" that Iraq didn't have WMD is like shooting a menacing-looking person who was walking past your house on the other side of the street and then telling the cops that it's too bad that guy you murdered didn't have a gun and the intent to break into your house.  Actually, it's like shooting that menacing-looking guy and then firebombing the other side of the street.

Or maybe it's like our country, which allowed this moron to take the presidency twice, lamenting the fact that he's a ruinous little prick with a keen ability to cool the press by making insincere pronouncements of responsibility in the most passive of voices.

Whet is a bit more charitable.

We'll, "silly" is one way to put it.  By the way, his IMdB profile has given unto me the inspiration for what will surely be the best epitaph ever: Was one of the final choices for the role of "Captain Sisko" on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".

Must have been the damned liberals holding him back.

Where there are balls (or in this case, just one), there's Ann Coulter. The same can also be said of open microphones, heinous acts in need of a dishonest defense, and bigots; but that is neither here nor there.

I feel like my IQ dropped 38 points just looking at this ad.

UPDATE: It was pointed out to me over IM that this quartet of ads is perhaps the definitive proof that Philip Rivers is only an average Chargers player.

Free advice: if a user can't figure out where to click to activate your creative, one of the following is true a) your creative is really bad or, b) your creative is really really bad.

Then again, after seeing the one above, I'm willing to entertain the possibility that both a and b are true.

Replace "big talent" and "only 100K plus talent" with "whites" and and you've got an ad for the RNC. But seriously, given this economy and their tone-deaf marketing, how long before The Ladders is shown the door?

I guess with a pronouncement like that I can expect all the Unitarian-bashing to stop. Meanwhile, it seems that Humanists and Atheists (two absolute essentials for a weekend bender) are taking their opinion to the buses.

Not quite what you might expect from a group that has at turns played the role of smug vegan and the religious BBQ and fur-wearer to the PETA-party, the Atheists cleverly decided to include a qualifier in their slogan "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

For me, it actually works quite nicely. The message is simple, the layout is about as edgy as you might like your non-denial-denials to be, and the attention to white space is impressive but to be expected from a group who so dearly values the reality of nothingness. Although "enjoy your life" might have been better put "make the world a better place" but who am I to question a bit of self-indulgence.

The Humanists, well, they manage to be more smugly inspiring than the Atheists but significantly less-appealing visually (which is so unlike Humanists):

Truly, there can be no God if such graphics are allowed to exist unpunished. Who needs a sake?

• Let him be in the Senate via Twitter (our nation's first, another accomplishment for the memorial).
  
• Establish a Senate (beta) and see if there are any kinks, if he proves capable and free of taint, a new build of the Senate could be initiated.
• Just seat him and pretend that his possible corruption is actually an association with a prostitute that centers around infantalization fetishes and we'll all be cool.

Feel free to add your own, it's all about problem-solving here at MBIMOTMOG.

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Insofar as it's still Blago's right to make appointments (at least as of 10am), well what can you say: it's his right and since no one took it away from him it's not hard to understand why he feels like it's his right to make the call. Insomuch as it's basically magnetizing the ship in a sea of previously-inert Republican mines, well, the "I did because I could" argument loses some of its luster. I guess Blago is testing to see if that "captain goes down with the ship" relationship is reciprocated.

What then of the senate Democrats, famous takers-of-stands and folders-under-pressure? Well, they've declared Burris too tainted to seat, which is sort of true but also sort of foolish. But ever the strategists of graceless victory and widely-publicized acquiescence, they have now had their bluff called by a man as crazy as his haircut and are being forced to produce a winning hand from a collection of totally random cards. Either that, or they'll bring in the guards. Lovely.

So, what will come of the famous-in-his-mind Roland Burris? I'm not sure I understand the arcane rules of the senate enough to hazard anything other than a fantasy guess; so here goes: He is seated at which point he immediately resigns the seat (hey, that's got to be something he can add to his monument) thus triggering a never-before-used senate rule that allows for the vacated seat to be filled by beloved Chicago-rapper/vocorder-enthusiast Kanye West. If that's not the definition of win-win, well, I'd like to see the dictionary.

If on the other hand, Burris has to be seated, I demand that Harry Reid take a moment after recognizing his defeat to raise his fists into the air and scream "Blah-GOOOOOO!!!" à la Darth Vader at the end of Episode 3; it's only fitting.

Hey, Al Franken won, so who can blame me for pressing my fantasy Senate further.

Related: Why is there no fantasy Congress? I feel like that's just the kind of thing I need in my life. Ben, Whet, Joseph--anyone in?

Seriously: "Attempt suicide"? F'reals, I'm not a person to caution against artistic expression that pushes the boundaries of taboos and/or taste--by all means shit on a cross and call it "The #2 Coming" or feel free to explore the inner-world of Elliott Smith in song or poem or book or whatever--but this is just bazonkers.

If this were Golden Fiddle and not an ad in service of one of America's most least-necessary tomes, that joke might even work; but so much of the contemporary celebutainment scene as represented by Perez Hilton and TMZ is devoid of artisitc vision, a sense of irony, and deeper examination of consequences that the above seems almost misanthropic and crass--like recutting "Fight Club" down to just the fights and none of the exposition--and if there is one thing I can't stand, it's misanthropy and crassness.

Also, people who stop and stand in doorways.

So what will MBIMOTMOG'09 look like? Well, that's hard to say. I imagine it will look like this, but hopefully with more content, and hopefully little to none about how disappointing the Obama presidency has been.

On that note, let me just say that I'm tired of hearing from moderates who think that prosecuting the Bush administration for crimes they committed in office (of which, once you leave behind Nixon's famous defense, there are many) is missing the point, or too partisan, or too focused on the past, or not addressing the concerns of the people. If Obama does just one thing as president, I'd hope it's convict some criminals.

Anyway...