Dean Wormer will definitely be putting some asshat fratrats on double secret probation after this stunt.

At long last, the 4th installment of the Mario Saga is up. See this post for the first three parts. (via metafilter)

Going through my referers, I came across this cool list of all the contributors for the book Never Threaten To Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs which I still haven't gotten a copy of. Here's what was said about me... When you hear the words "Washington intern" what do you think of first? Stained dress? Cigars? Yeah, that's what I thought. In his blog, Washington Interns Gone Bad, Jason Buckley talks politics and underground comedy while plugging his indie movie of the same name.

"Conservatives have spent the last 20 years distorting reality and getting away with it. That is about to change. The Center for American Progress has launched this new database project to chart the dishonesty and lies of conservatives – and compare them with the truth. In this database, each conservative quote will be matched against well-documented facts."

Uncle Bob, say it ain't so! Guided By Voices are retiring after their next album. While the last GbV album I bought was Do the Collapse, there will always be a warm spot in my heart for Bob and his ever-revolving band of musicians and their wonderful pop/rock goodness. (via Mithras)

As if I needed another reason to hate corporate America... My sister is among the 110 people in this article being downsized from her job as a medical lab tech. She's worked there for years and some bigger corporation just comes along one day, buys the whole lab, lays everybody off and liquidates all of the equipment. They're giving her something insulting like 2 weeks of severance pay. So now there's 110 less jobs in the Hudson Valley just so some company can pump up its stock price by a few cents and the executives are able to put the latest luxury gizmo in their giant SUV. I'm surprised that they didn't mention in this article how the new bosses asked the head of the phlebotomy department to lay off three employees, then after she did that they laid her off. They need to be talking to the workers who are being needlessly screwed out of work. Why does this sort of thing happen every day in this country without angry mobs of downsized workers dragging CEOs out of the buildings and beating them in the streets? (edited for clarity)

Spahish Bombs (Over Baghdad) and 18 other mashups taking on The Clash's London Calling album track by track are now available for download at London Booted. Get it while you can.

Finally, a website for anybody on the left even considering voting for anybody other than John Kerry: JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com

The weekend is here and that means it's time for another tasty recipe card from the 70's! This week's That 70's Recipe is really special. It's a pie that you can have before desert. Edited to add: Those 70's Recipes are now being archived on their own page.

Stop the presses! Aparently republicans are not down with hiphop. Who would have guessed?

A photo like this one got somebody fired. See, Bush doesn't want anybody to see any coffins of those dying every day in his miserable failure of a war in Iraq. The only coffins he wants us to see are the ones of fallen NYC firemen on 9/11 in his campaign ads. More photos of the Iraq war dead coffins were gotten through the Freedom of Information Act and are available at The Memory Hole (which is currently getting their server slammed).

Another unauthorized Jay Z Black Album mashup is out, this time it's The Slack Album, with music from Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted. I'm downloading now. See also The Grey Album and Jay Zeezer.

Weird referers again. This time I get an email from somebody who runs a site called Baby Store, saying that my store page showed up in a google search for "Baby Gores Store." I'm not entirely sure what baby gores are, but now the store page is a featured link in something called the High Index under the category of JonBenet Ramsey's Ransom Note. How random!

Ever since America was treated to a split second of Janet Jackson's boobie during the superbowl, Colin Powell's son and his Federal Communications Commission have been on a witch hunt for "broadcast indecency." Of course, they're being rather selective about who they have been targeting. Now they're trying to pass some garbage legislation giving the FCC more leeway to restrict free speech on the airwaves. Would you please take a moment to fax your senators and ask them to vote against this? Thanks.

Yo Leonard Nemoy Raps, sort of (5.6mb avi - via monkeyfilter).

Don't ask, just click it. (java)

I just got my Bush in 30 Seconds DVD in the mail today! In addition to selling them to raise funds, they also were nice enough to send them to every last person who submited an ad. What I still have not recieved in the mail yet is my copy of Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs. What are you waiting for, Apress Books? I know I only have one little thing on page 193, but I still should get my free copy.

Today is 4/20. It's the anniversary of the Columbine high school massacre, Hitler's birthday, as well as a day with major pot smoking significance. Please celebrate appropriately.

I've heard that building your own steadycam is not very difficult, even seen a few homemade ones. Now somebody has finally put up a page with complete instructions. I plan on building one soon.

NEW FEATURE! This blog has come into possession of some diet recipe cards from the 70's. Out of a whole bunch of them, our editorial team has selected only the best, and will be posting one each week. If you try making any of these, please consider sending a photo or at least posting a review in the forums. So without further ado, here's this week's recipe, Chilled Celery Log.

Just got back in from NY. I tried blogging once from my sister's but their computer handled Blogger strangely and wouldn't give me any way to actually save or publish my posts. Although we were both sick the whole time (Anne much sicker than me), we had fun seeing friends and family. We caught Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway and Battle of Algiers at Upstate Films. I got to see an old college roommate who I haven't seen in about 10 years. And the Easter Bunny gave us a nice stack of CDs! That's it for now. I'm freakin' exhausted!

Anne and I are leaving tomorrow morning for 10 days in NY to see family and friends. There probably won't be a whole lot of blogging going on here until after we get back, though I may try to get off a post or two. If you're bored and need something to read, do check out some of the fine blogs on my blogroll to the right.

They've been having a Nirvana-thon on the radio and I've been listening pretty much all day. Unfortunately with only 3 studio albums, 2 live albums, 1 collection of b-sides and a few odds and ends, there's been quite a bit of repetition (though I still haven't heard my favorite song, Annuerism). If anyone would like to talk about where you were and what you were doing when you found out that Kurt Cobain killed himself 10 years ago today, or if you just want to share your feelings about it, I've opened up a topic for it in the forums.

Ten years ago today, I was living in New Paltz, NY getting my apartment ready for the party we were going to be having that night. My friend Jon called me up to tell me that they found a body in Kurt Cobain's house which was probably his. He had been missing for a few days having ditched the rehab he was in. Shortly before that, he had nearly fatally ODed in Italy. Later it was confirmed that it was indeed Kurt Cobain's body, dead from a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head. I rember going to the bar around the corner from my place and having a shot for Kurt. Later that night the party raged on, and towards the end a bunch of us huddled around a boombox in the kitchen listening to Incesticide and bemoaning the loss of the guy who came along and inadvertantly changed the face of rock.

Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs, which contains my very first nationally published piece of writing, is finally available. Here's Amazon's review: "This book is a compendium of the best blog entries available on the internet! Scoured from thousands of blogs and selected by a panel of blue-ribbon judges, the very unique perspectives of those who choose to record their everyday lives in public forums is compiled in one place, with accompanying illustrations. From the comedic to the dramatic to the tragic, this "best of" book offers a little bit of wit, wonder, and wisdom from the World Wide Web. Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs, assembles some of the best blog entries on the internet into a quick, portable, and highly memorable reader. I've read most of it already, and I'm still hapilly flabbergasted that one of my posts was chosen.