Yet The Exile was too vitriolic to romanticize for long or to consult just its fans. And listening to the critics is too fun. They call Ames and Taibbi, singly or in combination, children, louts, misogynists, madmen, pigs, hypocrites, anarchists, fascists, racists, and fiends. According to Carol Williams, of the Los Angeles Times, “It seemed like a bunch of kids who’d somehow gotten funding for their own little newspaper.” A former New York Times Moscow-bureau chief, Michael Wines, offered a no-comment comment. “I think I’ll pass, thank you,” he e-mailed, “except to repeat what I said at the time, and what Shaw said a lot earlier: Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”Of course, a pig is probably not the farm animal that comes to Wines’s mind first when he’s reminded of The Exile. It was Wines, then the Times’s Moscow-bureau chief, who, having won The Exile’s coveted Worst Journalist in Russia March Madness contest in 2001, was typing in his office when Ames and Taibbi rushed in unannounced and, by way of congratulations, slammed a pie in his face. The pie was made with fresh vanilla cream, hand-puréed strawberry, and five ounces of horse semen.‘That’s what he said?,” Ames asks when I relay Wines’s comment. “He said the same thing back then, the poor bastard.”
via Lost Exile | Culture | Vanity Fair.
Monday, March 1, 2010
CRESTVIEW – Chocolate milk fell from the pants of a 27-year-old woman as she was being placed in the back of a patrol car, according to a Crestview Police Department arrest report.
On Feb. 8, a Publix loss prevention officer noticed the woman concealing cosmetic items picked from store aisles in her purse, the report said. After a police officer arrived on the scene, the woman was crying and yelling profanities.
The woman asked if she could just go to court instead of going to jail, and the officer handcuffed her and told her she was under arrest, the report said. When she sat down in the back of the patrol car, a cold bottle of Nesquik chocolate milk fell out of her pants.
The woman told the officer she had a second beverage on her, according to the report. While wearing handcuffs, she retrieved a bottle of Publix chocolate milk from inside her pants.
via Police: Woman arrested for shoplifting, chocolate milk spills from her pants | police, arrested, shoplifting – News – Northwest Florida Daily News.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
I loved my iPod, I envy my sister’s Macbook, and I’ll always consider Apple products when I’m purchasing electronics. But I’ll be damned if I participate in some lame cult of personality around a solipsistic shithead like Steve Jobs.
via Googlers Fire Back at Steve Jobs ‘Bullshit’ Jab – Steve Jobs – Gawker.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Best metaphorical explanation of Windows yet:
… then the Borg rolls out this old chestnut: “Over nine out of ten computer users choose Windows.”
Now, come on. Windows is like herpes. Or genital warts. Nobody chooses Windows. People get Windows. It comes preloaded on their crap machine, and they’re stuck with it.
via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Borgtard blurts out truth, gets spanked in public.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
