Posted in Law, Nation, Scott Lahti, tagged crime, Dariel Firpo, muggers, New York Police Department, robbery on July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
NYPD rookie makes arrest moments after graduation
NEW YORK – A New York Police Department rookie just couldn’t wait to get started.
One of the NYPD’s newest officers made his first arrest Thursday just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden.
Officer Dariel Firpo, 23 , was leaving the midtown Manhattan [...]
Posted in Commerce, Scott Lahti, tagged Air Jammer Cycle Scrammer, Rough Riders, television commercials, Transformers on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/But to be young was very Heaven. – Wordsworth.
♫ Rough Riders, 4×4 – YOU CAN TRY TO STOP ‘EM!!! ♫ – Deep-Bass-Voiceover Men’s Choir, US Children’s Afternoon Programming c. 1982.
♫ Air Jammer, Cycle Scrammer: Air Jammer, Cycle Scrammer (♫ It’s a cycle, runs [...]
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Education, Ethics, Family, Health Care, Humor, Language, Law, Lifestyle, Man, Media, Mind, Nation, Nature, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, Technology, War, Woman, World on July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, — that reform consists in taking a bone from a [...]
Posted in Arts, Ethics, Humor, Media, Scott Lahti, Technology, tagged Broadway, Evita, Patti LuPone, theater on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
An Editors’ favorite from the c. 850+ comments posted in response to Broadway veteran Patti LuPone’s own response to a blog item at The New York Times reporting on her breaking of character in a recent concert, in enacting a thespian answer to Mr. Reagan’s famous request of Mr. Gorbachev to [...]
Posted in Arts, Humor, Man, Scott Lahti, Sex, Sport, Woman, tagged Benny Hill, billiards, Ferdinand Mount, Fred Perry, John Keats, Peter Stothard, pool, snooker, tennis, Wimbledon on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In his “This Week” sidebar on the Contents page of the June 26 number of The Times Literary Supplement, editor Sir Peter Stothard introduces a review by his predecessor on the paper of a biography of a long-ago English Wimbledon champ:
As TV viewers succumb to “mania” for our latest prospect (or are constantly told that [...]
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Education, Ethics, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Humor, Language, Law, Lifestyle, Man, Media, Mind, Nation, Nature, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, Sport, Technology, War, Woman, World on June 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men.
- A “heresiarch of Uqbar” quoted in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges.
HUMOR/ODD/TRIVIA/CURIOSA
“A collection of cartoons from the issue, plus this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest.”
Dead Mom Walking: NY man charged with impersonating dead mother.
Police: Man attacked in Okla. for bologna sandwich.
Ferral [...]
Posted in Commerce, Humor, Man, Scott Lahti, Sex, Technology, Woman, tagged British Telecom, NewsBiscuit on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
British Telecom ads to feature shagging – NewsBiscuit (UK humor: “The news before it happens…”)
BT has announced that its next ad for broadband will feature that woman and her toy boy ‘having it off’. The company made the announcement in response to complaints from customers…[more]
Scenes We’d Like to S/he:
She [going from bed to bathroom with [...]
Posted in Arts, Humor, Lifestyle, Media, Scott Lahti, tagged Broadway, Hair, hippies, Joel McHale, musicals, Pennies from Heaven, soup, theater, Tony Awards on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“It was a mistake to cast actual hippies” – Joel McHale on Hair [@ 5:35], 2009 Tony winner for Best Revival, The Soup on E!, June 12, 2009
An instant Soup classic: For all those who have ever dared to dream dreamy theatrical theatre dreams, who have known all their lives of the sacred and universal [...]
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Ethics, Gods, Health Care, Humor, Language, Law, Lifestyle, Man, Media, Mind, Nation, Nature, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, Technology, War, Woman, World on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
HUMOR/ODD
“A collection of cartoons from the issue, plus this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest.”
“For New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, Sunday provides an opportunity to fold origami and nurse old grudges.”
Mo. family Christmas photo turns up in Czech ad.
A Spector is haunting. Literally.
Mich. man claims to be NY boy who vanished in 1955. Update: Sought [...]
Posted in Humor, Language, Scott Lahti, Technology, War, World, tagged Croatia, denim, Erica Jong, Kim Jong-il, Neil Diamond, North Korea, nuclear weapons on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a “Test” of the Emergent-sea Bloodcast Cistern:
NKorea warns of nuclear war amid rising tensions
…North Korea’s Foreign Ministry threatened war with any country that stops its ships on the high seas under new sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council in response to its May 25 nuclear test…
♫ Serb Ever [...]
Posted in Arts, Health Care Proposals, Humor, Language, Lifestyle, Private, Public, Scott Lahti, Self, Technology, tagged addiction, recovery (?) on June 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Timmy Williams [Eric Idle in notorious David Frost parody]: Now, go on please, this is most interesting.
Nigel [Terry Jones]: Well … er… as I was saying, Timmy, my wife’s gone… gone. (close-up on him) I’ve got three children and I’m at my wits end. No job, no insurance, no money at [...]
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Ethics, Gods, Health Care, Humor, Language, Law, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Nation, Nature, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, Sport, Technology, World on June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
POLITICS/OPINION
The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention: In the president’s speech to the Islamic world, he never mentioned the 800,000 or so Jews born in the Middle East who fled or were expelled for being Jewish in the 20th century.
ODD/SPOT NEWS
Blagojevich-inspired hair care.
Slim Jim plant blast.
Crunchy Con, or I Can Believe They’re Not Berries: Lawyer takes [...]
Posted in Media, Mind, Scott Lahti, Technology, tagged Monty Python, internet, Wikipedia, Columbia Encyclopedia, Ayn Rand, Worldwide Web on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
That mind-boggling kaleidoscopic hall of online mirrors and infinite circularities called Wikipedia, explored at length in an English book review (Like Boiling a Frog). Points for using as major springboards the one book to which I owe more than any other these last exactly 30 years (outside of The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus – [...]
