Nitsuh calls BS on that one McSweeney’s piece floating around (it’s an online submission and a quick read):
It’s not that I don’t get jokes about students being pointy-headed and namby-pamby and whatnot. (Yes yes clever.) But ultimately, there’s a rhetorical thrust to this piece that’s just as often associated with, say, racist uncles at Thanksgiving, [...]

“When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.”
Pretty sure this has made a couple laps already, but it’s very much worth a click if you’ve [...]

Frome arounde the internete. Enjoye.
CJC from the better-every-day Chemistry Class gets sentimental for Lester Bangs.
Chuck Klosterman writes the best piece I’ve ever read on baseball’s sui generis self-historicism. Turns out, he’s a better writer than anyone currently scribing for ESPN.
Tom Breihan, probably my favorite current music writer, logs his time watching the CMT [...]

It’s been a long weekend.
Dane Cook “Driveway Intruder” (mp3) from Retalliation. Buy it here.
Chris Rock “The War” (mp3) from Never Scared. Buy it here.
Woody Allen “The Lost Generation” (mp3) from Stand-Up Comic: 1964-1968. Buy it here.
Penn Jillette and Paul Proveza talk about “The Aristocrats” (mp3) on KCRW’s The Treatment.
Louis C.K. talks about [...]