Rich Diet
Posted by ismismism on August 19, 2008 in Uncategorized
Both of these links may be well worn territory for you, since I don’t pretend to keep up on all current events. I do, however, always read Harper’s Weekly Review, a succinct summary of the past week’s events that distills the noise into clear droplets and also mines many bizarre and curious headlines that were overlooked by the mainstream news cycle. Here are two items of note from this week.
In last week’s interviews with both candidates at Saddleback Church (full video), Rick Warren asked the men to “define rich.” The short answer is that Obama said the line was $250,000 a year, while McCain said it was $5 million (then immediately said his answer would be distorted). If you haven’t already seen it, check out the clip of McCain’s full bumblefuck. Yikes.
Speaking of rich, the NY Post describes Michael Phelps’ 12,000 calorie daily diet. Each day he eats three fried-egg sandwiches (with fried onions and mayonnaise), two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar, three chocolate-chip pancakes, two pounds of pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo, an entire pizza and about 2,000 calories of energy drinks to wash it all down.
Wow, just reading that makes me want to puke.
The Life of Telemarketers
Posted by ismismism on August 12, 2008 in Uncategorized
I receive a lot of annoying sales calls at work, and I generally just don’t answer them. Today I was left an accidental message by someone who apparently thought they had hung up. I could only hear one side of the conversation, but this is what it said.
[Background noise of another speakerphone ringing endlessly and a [...]
What a homeown
Posted by ismismism on July 15, 2008 in Uncategorized
Since I haven’t told anyone about the existence of this blog yet, I’m guessing you didn’t notice that I’m returning from a two week vacation. I had the time off work, and I consequently spent refreshingly little time on the internet (and a disappointing amount of time in front of daytime television).
One major thing [...]
Downtown Detroit one day, open farmland the next
Posted by ismismism on June 27, 2008 in Uncategorized
I’ve been tied down and tickled by gremlins all week, so I couldn’t post about my weekend until now.
FRIDAY: Suburban Sprawl Summer of Fun IV @ Alvin’s
It’s been already reported here, but let me say that Sea of Japan were much tighter than I was expecting on Friday. After only five practices, they sounded like they [...]
Why Blogger?
Posted by ismismism on June 17, 2008 in Uncategorized
I know what you’re thinking:
“Oh great, another blog. From a real person, not even a gimick like a blog from a pet or an inanimate object. At least that might be funny for one post. This is just more mindless chatter to collect spam comments.”
And you’re probably right. Entering the blogosphere right now feels like [...]