Well goddamnit if I can't get through some kind of celebration without pissing the entire party off. It happened again tonight, at my future in-laws house. For some unknown reason, although it's Jason's damn party, someone had to bring up how scrumdiddleyuptious Larry the Cable Guy is (I'll be goddamned if I'm going to link his name). As per usual in this kind of situation, I held my tongue. It's impossible to ever bring that kind of debate to an intelligent level. Everyone is laughing, recounting high lights of his television routine, and in general, letting their "true colors" fly. The kind of "true colors" you only fly when you're sure you're with like-minded company.

Finally, I was asked if I thought he was funny. I'm sure as hell not going to lie to curry favor, so I said no, that I found his work to be insulting.

There was a loooooong silence. And I could see everyone's inner monologue. To put it nicely, it said "uppity bitch".

Thank God for David Cross in these times of trial:

"It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor which people like in America all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-
tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride."

Yup. And I seem to end up getting into confrontations with every Wal-Mart shopping, Dodge truck buying, evangelical bigot this side of the Rockies. Did I point out I live in northern California, for God's sake? These people have infiltrated everything!

You know, if I'd gone to work today, I wouldn't have found this. And it needed to be found.

Top Five Songs to Listen to When You Skip Outta Work On a Monday

1.) "Definition" - Mos Def & Talib Kweli

2.) "Get Myself Into It" - The Rapture

3.) "Over the Pond" - Album Leaf & Sigur Ros (I have a theory that this song was in "Donnie Darko", but no one listens to me)

4.) "Just Drums" - Tapes 'n Tapes

5.) "Gold Lion" - Yeah3

Any feedback on Band of Horses would also be appreciated. I'm being peer pressured into listening to them.

Having a bad day at work? Has the strumpet in accounting hacked you off? Does your boss assume you read minds? Are you dying to leave an all-company voice mail expressing your concerns over the decrease in benefit coverage? Is the fax machine behaving like it has a personal vendetta against you? Then you need the Samuel L. Jackson Soundboard! Perfect for almost any occupational situation!

(via Posthuman Blues)

Curious to hear what Sunny Day Real Estate mixed with early Smashing Pumpkins would sound like? Then watch, listen and rock hard...

I am an IKEA nut. I go absolutely crazy for my annual shop-a-thon. Who knew it was so tawdry?

"We saw this particular photo when the prints came through here in Canada. ...But we can definitely say this is a picture of a dog's leg, and it is not something else."