The B-Sides

I have no excuse for not posting. I work as a receptionist for an uspecified governmental organization; I have high-speed internet and nothing to do. Yes, those are your tax dollars at work!

In order to make-up for not posting in about a month, and spend as little time as possible on the net so my boss doesn’t realize I’m getting paid to be yelled at by (often) annoying constituants, I’ll do a “week in review” link-fest post.

Points in Case- Mildly frat-ish college students bitching about being mildly frat-ish college students. With columns named “Casual Misanthropy,” and gems like these, how could it be bad.

“We’re not smart enough to be ironic… We’ve lost our sense of humor, but we’re still afraid to take anything seriously.”

“Do you realize how boring a conservative news outlet would be? About as boring as Iranian porn.”

God, I love Generation PoMo.

The Comics Curmudgeon- Funny pages commentary with ironic distance. Anyone who hates the Family Circus as much as I do is okay in my book (see here).

“So why do you suppose that this panel is completely devoid of background details of any kind? And yet why is Barfy’s mangy little head poking in at the bottom of the frame, despite the fact that he’s not involved in this ‘joke’ at all? 

“My theory about the first question: The utter blankness is supposed to cue us off that the Keanes live in an archetypical existentialist meaningless void — like Waiting For Godot, with more malapropisms.”

Check this out. My boss is catching on; I have to go.