So what’s everyone doing for NYE? I can’t find it online, but I’d highly suggest reading the wonderful Lester Bangs article on NYE (included in the Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung collection), titled appropriately “New Year’s Eve.” It pretty much sums up how I’ve always felt about this holiday. I’ll leave you with the opening line:
“On New Year’s Eve of 1972 I attended a great party thrown by someone I didn’t know and inadvertently fell into a protracted conversation with this nearsighted social worker about 20 or 25 who kept babbling about his Volkswagen until I finally had to say: ‘Wait a minute. Are you telling me that the owning of a Volkswagen is a social, or a political act?’”
Here’s a mental health break for the holidays: a hilarious clip from that mediocre Ricky Bobby movie Will Ferrell came out with a couple of years ago. I mean, it’s kind of Xmas-y. It’s all about the baby Jesus…
I’ve been pretty lax about posting lately, I know. I took the GRE a week and a half ago and am in the middle of applying to grad school. So that’s my excuse. What’s yours? Anyway, here is an article that a friend sent to me this week which amused/disturbed me on multiple levels: Supermarket defends itself over Adolf Hitler cake. Here is a pic of the birthday boy, young Adolph, and his parents:
So the kid is pretty cute (as most three-year-olds are), but if Adolph’s parents are supposed to be examples of the Aryan master race, well I hope the White Power movement in America has a few better-looking physical specimens waiting in the wings, ready to represent. Oh and one of the couple’s other children (they have three stair-step kids, natch) is named “JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell.” Jesus that poor kid is going to grow up to be a walking Onion article.
That’s all for now kiddos. If you have suggestions on subjects I should be writing about (other than inbred Aryans), feel free to email me at info@pinkmoan.com. Cheers, queers…
I read about the process known as “Reality Mining” this morning in the below New York Times article. The piece talks about how complex social network behaviors and interactions may be monitored, digitally:
Click here to visit the MIT Media Lab site on Reality Mining. Fascinating stuff, if you like to geek-out like I do. Reality Mining’s potential for evil use, however, = high. If you’re still curious, read this great response post to the NYT article on Tim Boucher’s blog:
