Comments on: Friday crying-on-the-inside thread

By: chris borthwick

chris borthwick — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 03:38:19 +0000

and http://deuceofclubs.com/amusive/easap024.htm

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 05:38:51 +0000

I’d recommend this Fafblog post – in fact, any Fafblog. Also Michael Kelly’s Page of Misery.

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:11:08 +0000

No roundup of comforting, spirit-lifting, healing sites is complete without Arthur Schopenhauer's Studies in Pessimism.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:45:15 +0000

I can’t help but notice the way that bitter political humor has crept back in when the entire point of Ted’s post was obviously an attempt allow for a bit of a reprieve, an escape for a moment or two, from the gaping abyss that stares back at us and wills only to swallow us all. I can’t complain much myself as I’ve always had a peculiar fondness for gallows humor. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because his coop had been turned into a giant hog farm complete with odiferous waste pools due to deregulation by the Bush administration.

By: adamsj

adamsj — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:13:44 +0000

Here are two with lotsa foul language that cracked me up recently: Dean Wins! The incredible story of how Howard Dean became President of the United States. Brian Heater's transcript of Kerry's concession speech

By: Mouse

Mouse — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:09:17 +0000

Mini-biog of George W. Bush: “former town drunk of Crawford, Texas” From comments here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:George_W._Bush#Crystal_ball.3F

By: Scott Martens

Scott Martens — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:33:26 +0000

Best thing yet: http://www.filmstripinternational.com/.

By: abb1

abb1 — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:20:29 +0000

I thought Bush assassination stuff on the exile.ru was pretty funny, with mock opinon articles by George Will, Thomas Friedman and all the rest of it. Enjoy.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:46:54 +0000

Thanks for those too Nabokov, I wonder though if the Lambshead guide will prove even a smidgen as captivating as the ancient copy of Krafft-Ebing I inherited from my grandfather. The multimedia show is great. When I lived in Morocco I basically avoided the American kvetching corner like a plague. I made many Moroccan friends including a few traditional students who were studying for a 12-year degree in what is arguably the world’s oldest university, al-Qarawayyin (Egyptians beg to differ) One of these students and one of my closest friends grew up in the south of Morocco known as the Souss (he is Soussi, or Shilha, or Tashilhait….wonderful people). He was pretty much orphaned and grew up in a kuttab, a school where you basically spend most of your time memorizing the Qur`an and maybe a few other basic texts. One afternoon we were hanging out at my place which was in the old Jewish quarter in the New City, which was only about 1,000 years old. I had just cooked us some lunch and we were hanging out in the kitchen, the afternoon light was streaming through the windows some 20-feet overhead (the house looked palatial). And I started to do some hand-shadows, first a bird, then I tried for what for me was the ultimate: Nixon. Not that my friend would recognize it, in all likelihood. So immediately walks in front of the Butagaz container we were using as a screen and goes right into the most amazing lifelike camel I’d ever seen, saying, “ba`eer” (one of the many words for camel, more or less equivalent to our word cattle.”) I cracked up. He was an encyclopedia of hand-shadows, each done with life-like perfection, complete with sound effects and all. I was astounded and asked him where in the world did he learn all this and how did he ever find the time to perfect them all? “Fi’l-kuttab” In the Qur`an school, he said. Such was life for poor students in the days before Game Boys or comic books.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:17:38 +0000

A cure for what ails yer all. http://www.lambsheadguide.com/about/index.html If not, screw it all at http://merlin.blogs.com/bitterblog/ then leave a note for posterity at http://www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi and then chill out with some good music at http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000302.html accompanied by yer own multimedia show http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/2/9/6/12962/12962-h/12962-h.htm

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:28:52 +0000

David Tiley Thanks for the great sites. I think I’ll keep the Yeti, defective or not it does the trick just fine. Too bad the blogger lives in Seattle, if he was in NY I’d gladly wear that T-shirt at his bus stop. I do wish I knew something about the writer behind Izzlepfaff, just a city would do. But any blog that features Stavros the Wonder Chicken as a regular commentator is a must bookmark in my book. (fafblog, of course, is an old favorite-Bow to giblets!)

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:47:03 +0000

These work for me: albino neutrino defective yeti fafblog Of course izzlepfaff There are many others on my list of faves, but they are more local and esoteric.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 06:17:19 +0000

“A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it’s true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt……If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.” —Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to a friend after the passage of the alien and sedition acts. Here’s the funny part: the witches are Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and George Washington. So arguably we have it worse. Also, in the sentence before he argues that part of the reason that their reign will not succeed is that they’re weird and ill-starred like the Jews. Even so, this is bouncing all over the liberal inter-web-thingy for a reason.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 04:07:24 +0000

The only website on the internet that I know of that promises more than Bush does, and it even delivers too: Zombo.com

By: skroah

skroah — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:55:51 +0000

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