Friday crying-on-the-inside thread

Funny and not so,
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

Hmmm there’s always:

Homestar
Waterman
ScaryGoRound
And the perfect thing to read when your angry: Get Your War On!

Modern Humorist Holy Tango of Poetry (If Poets Wrote Poems That Were An Anagram of Their Names)

A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What is this, a joke?”

This if you’re looking for something sick, this if you’re looking for something cynical, and this (which I blogged some time back) for no good reason at all.

Hey. Uh, sorry for being “that guy” and tracking back 16 times. I was trying to get some formating correct, and….

This got my biggest laugh today:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/05/CALBUDGET.TMP

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he won’t listen to “losers” in the Democrat-controlled Legislature… as he announced that former South Bay Republican Rep. Tom Campbell will head his finance department.

Campbell, a social moderate, will take a leave from his current job as the dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley to join the administration, replacing Donna Arduin, who left after just a year.

Schwarzenegger praised Campbell as “the most brilliant person in California” at a press conference announcing his selection.

“What I like most about Tom is that he thinks the same way I do,” the governor said.

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“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.

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!)

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.

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

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

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

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