February 9, 2010
Better Late Than Never

Well, somehow I missed my traditional winter quoting of Ezra Pound with the first nasty storm of the season, but as we’re heading into round 12839 of SnOMG 2010, the lack has become painfully glaring. Sing:

Winter is icumen in, 
Lhude sing Goddamm, 
Raineth drop and staineth slop, 
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm. 
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, 
Freezeth river, turneth liver, 
An ague hath my ham. 
Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, ‘tis why I am, Goddamm,
So ‘gainst the winter’s balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm, 
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

7:55pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/380857184/better-late-than-never
February 9, 2010

11:17am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/380138070
February 7, 2010
Famous Directors Direct the Superbowl.

1:42pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/376438571/famous-directors-direct-the-superbowl
January 31, 2010
"On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season’s hit makes more money. As fewer and fewer people go through the doors, larger and larger sums cross the ticket office counter, until eventually one last millionaire will be paying a fortune for one private performance for himself alone."

— Peter Brook, The Empty Space

1:05pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/363490350/on-broadway-ticket-prices-are-continually-rising
January 27, 2010
thedailywhat: SOTU: Joe the Eagle. [twitpic.]

thedailywhat:

SOTU: Joe the Eagle.

[twitpic.]

10:57pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/357264511/thedailywhat-sotu-joe-the-eagle-twitpic
(No. OF NOTES: 459)
  
January 22, 2010
"Under the majority’s view, I suppose it may be a First Amendment problem that corporations are not permitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a form of speech."

—

  • Justice Stevens

9:48am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/347451008/under-the-majoritys-view-i-suppose-it-may-be-a
January 21, 2010
"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."

— Justice Stevens, dissenting

4:13pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/346433057/while-american-democracy-is-imperfect-few-outside
January 18, 2010
Numbers

azspot:

GDP of Haiti: $8.5 billion.

Goldman Sachs bonus pool: $20 billion.

1:07am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/340429830/numbers
(No. OF NOTES: 394)
  
January 14, 2010
"This is why today’s China is so unsettling…what if this strain of authoritarian capitalism proves itself to be more efficient, more profitable, than our liberal capitalism? What if democracy is no longer the necessary and natural accompaniment of economic development, but its impediment?"

— Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

7:55pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/334912906/this-is-why-todays-china-is-so-unsettling-what-if
January 13, 2010
thedailywhat: Robert Penney: “Retro Games With Modern Themes” Exclusively for the Cartridge Video System 2600. [gamesetwatch.]

thedailywhat:

Robert Penney: “Retro Games With Modern Themes”

Exclusively for the Cartridge Video System 2600.

[gamesetwatch.]

8:05am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/332332202/thedailywhat-robert-penney-retro-games-with
(No. OF NOTES: 3473)