monk222 | Oct. 5th, 2011

Oct. 5th, 2011

When "The Simpsons" first came out, I was a pretty big fan. I cannot remember when they lost me, but it just started getting old to me. And I remember when I caught their big movie: it seemed to me that they were just throwing stuff on the screen, just free-associating away, without rhyme or reason or any real fun. But it has it's place in my mindscape, a significant landmark in my brain, a part of me for better or worse. At least the show beats Beavis and Butthead; I'd hate to think of those guys roving around in my head.

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Winston still has her note, having casually flung it on his desk among his other papers, still unread. He is trying to play it cool as he sits at his desk and continues his work assignments. Naturally, the possibilities are racing through his imagination. Oddly, he is still afraid that the dark-haired girl is with the Thought Police and this note may be part of a lesser known and crueler tactic: “The thing that was written on the paper might be a threat, a summons, an order to commit suicide, a trap of some description.”

Yet, he has a happier thought, though it is not the one we readers are aching with, as “his heart banged” with the thought that the dark-haired girl may actually be a member of an underground organization. Maybe the Brotherhood really existed and he has a personal invitation right in front of him.

Finally, he feels his moment has come. Taking up his next batch of work papers, he has the note on top, and he reads it: I love you.

For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole. When he did so, although he knew very well the danger of showing too much interest, he could not resist reading it once again, just to make sure that the words were really there.

You know Winston’s heart was really banging away now, with perhaps a bit of a bulge in his trousers as well.

For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole. When he did so, although he knew very well the danger of showing too much interest, he could not resist reading it once again, just to make sure that the words were really there.

You know Winston’s heart was really banging away now, with perhaps a bit of a bulge in his trousers as well.

"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those."

-- Sylvia Plath

This woman haunts me. I should've made a separate tag for her a long time ago.

I'm going to add another fun feature to my blog, as part of my endless efforts to satisfy my legions of fans. This one is a bit like the media dump, you know, the one that includes some soft porn, but this one will just be dry quotes from newsy items. Well, you probably cannot wait to click the cut, so without further ado, enjoy!

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"I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn't help, then being beheaded."

-- Roseanne Barr

The central problem is that Mitt Romney doesn’t fit the mold of what many Republicans want in a presidential candidate. They don’t want a technocratic manager. They want a bold, blunt radical outsider who will take on the establishment, speak truth to power and offend the liberal news media.

They don’t want Organization Man. They want Braveheart.

-- David Brooks for NYT

School superintendents and principals across the state confirm that attendance of Hispanic children has dropped noticeably since the word went out that school officials are now required to check the immigration status of newly enrolled students and their parents.

That rule is part of the law’s sweeping attempt to curtail the rights and complicate the lives of people without papers, making them unable to enter contracts, find jobs, rent homes or access government services. In other words, to be isolated, unemployable, poor, defenseless and uneducated.

-- NYT editorial on Alabama immigration law

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of "Sesame Street", the show said in a statement on Tuesday.

-- ONTD

Johnny Depp says he's overpaid to star in Pirates of the Caribbean, for which he's reportedly earned more than $300 million.

“Basically, if they’re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I’m going to take it,” Depp tells the November issue of Vanity Fair. "I have to. I mean, it’s not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it’s for my kids. It’s ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It’s for the kids.”

-- ONTD

A virus spread by oral sex may cause more cases of throat cancer in men than smoking, a finding that spurred calls for a new large-scale test of a drug used against the infection.

Researchers examined 271 throat-tumor samples collected over 20 years ending in 2004 and found that the percentage of oral cancer linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, surged to 72 percent from about 16 percent, according to a report released yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. By 2020, the virus-linked throat tumors -- which mostly affected men -- will become more common than HPV-caused cervical cancer, the report found.

-- Bloomberg.com

Christie looks less interested in eggheads than eggs Benedict with a side of hash browns and bacon. The Republican’s girth seems reassuring in lean times. Studies have shown that during slumping economies, men may find plumper women more attractive. So why shouldn’t financially stressed voters find plumper pols more appealing?

-- Maureen Dowd

When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks? If so, think again. After 2,000 years, the Messiah is getting a makeover.

This time he's less "gentle Jesus, meek and mild" and more of a kick-ass action hero – a Chuck Norris in sandals.

No more cissy Kumbaya stuff. In this testosterone-fuelled theology, the Saviour finally has the rippling biceps he would have developed as a carpenter from a working-class home in Nazareth.

The macho Jesus movement has been bolstered by books like No More Mr Christian Nice Guy and The Church Impotent – the Feminisation of Christianity. But it's artist Stephen Sawyer, whose paintings of the Son of God as a tattooed biker and boxer have captured the imagination of Christian men searching for a more manly role model.

-- Tanith Carey for The Guardian

The next time you see Barack Obama gliding into a White House press conference, take note of that jazzy walk. It is a dead ringer for the strut that was the bearing of choice among inner-city cool guys in the 1960s, when Barry Obama was still a tyke growing up in the exotic precincts of Hawaii and Indonesia. The Obama glide represents his embrace of a black aesthetic that was not his by circumstance of birth. It speaks on an intimate frequency to African-American men, who have been smiling in recognition and rating it for style ever since he stepped into the national spotlight. President Obama is acutely aware of how to deploy the physical self to excellent effect. If we looked back closely at 2008, we would no doubt notice him amping up the glide for black audiences and dialing it back elsewhere.

-- Brent Staples for The New York Times

“As smoking gives us something to do with our hands when we aren’t using them, Time gives us something to do with our minds when we aren’t thinking.”

-- Dwight Macdonald

"I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings."

-- Roger Ailes