I came across an article in New York Mag discussing the things that the newspaper industry can learn from the porn industry, and the similarities between the two industries. You may read it here.
Humourous
The Beast!
Hobb e-mailed me recently and in the message he brought up a website related to The Exiled! Naturally, I checked out the website, and found it was extremely hilarious. The website is called The Buffalo Beast. Therefore I am passing the site address on to all of you, along with this passage from an article they wrote on the 50 most loathsome people in 2008:
“31. Stephenie Meyer
Charges: She’s the unforgivably perky Mormon mom who wrote the Twilight Series of books, currently draining IQ points from Western Civilization. This silly wank-off vampire fantasy for teenage girls has been embraced by legions of sad, middle-aged women who fight for access to their daughters’ sticky copies of the books. It’s an embarrassing spectacle for all Americans who aren’t actively participating in it. Meyer admits she can’t handle the better class of vampires and has never watched a whole vampire movie, even the more anemic kind: “I’ve seen little pieces of Interview with a Vampire when it was on TV, but I kind of always go YUCK! I don’t watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror. And I think I’ve seen a couple of pieces of The Lost Boys, which my husband liked, and he wanted me to watch it once, but I was like, ‘It’s creepy!’”
Exhibit A: The hit movie version of Twilight, featuring Meyer’s dreary characters, a tiresome teenage girl and the pathetic “vegetarian” vampire who loves her, mooning around on first base for two hours and giving vampires everywhere a bad name.
Sentence: Meyer encounters a non-vegetarian vampire, who kills her immediately and gruesomely in front of an appreciative audience of horror film fans. ”
Hilarious 🙂
Peeing in the shower!
See, all these years I’ve championed peeing in the shower, and finally it is being encouraged as a way of saving water, although in a mannerly fashion in this article. I am also an avid fan of more than one person showering at the same time, depending on the person who wants to shower with me 😛
The cost of raising a kid
“An average middle-income family with a child born in 2008 will spend about $221,000 on expenses relating to raising him or her through the age of 17.” Find the full article here.
The Exiled
Tonight I stumbled across one of my all-time favourite websites again, which was formally known as The Exile. It was a paper based out of Russia, with writers who got so fed up with living in America, that they moved to Russia. Thee paper lasted over 10 years before the Russian government allegedly orchestrated their shutdown. Now they’ve returned to America it seems, and begun a new website. For an example of their work, take this quote, and visit this link: “America’s collapse into a Third World banana republic is accelerating: Alabama’s most populous county, Jefferson County, is so broke it’s closing down courthouses and laying off so many cops that it’s now planning to call in the National Guard to maintain order”
Racist cop?
A read a funny article posted by New York mag today, about a cop who insists he isn’t racist, even after he uttered a ridiculous racist comment:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/07/boston_cop_masters_doublethink.html?mid=daily-intel–20090730
Oh noes, Sad Panda is missing!
Here is a hialrious story from New York magazine: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/07/sad_panda_is_missing.html?mid=daily-intel–20090717
Andy Veilleux 