11.10.2008
over.
the running roll of things that are over. or nearly over.
rogers & hammerstien references
gilbert & sullivan references
"Where you were when JKF was killed."
The expansion of the petrochemical industry.
bows + arrows.
Larry King.
Compassionate Conservatism.
Free-market Capitalism.
Whale-oil.
Moon-Men
Virginity until marriage.
Heaven, in the "pearly gates" sense.
Rocky Franchise.
White Jesus.
Multi-Tasking.
any "new black"
punk
Pogoballs (with a small chance of a brief resurgence)
Anti-Intellectualism (barring a catastrophic event)
Garage Bands.
"open" relationships.
privacy.
digital (and most other) media-copyrights.
Television. (as we know it)
land-lines
pennies (endangered: nickels. and on watch: dimes.)
Most large animals' natural habitats.
Freemasons.
Free, unlimited water.
unlimited internet.
and on the Please please please please please oh please, wish list:
the need for electric chords
or Regis Philbin (it's a tossup)
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rogers & hammerstien references
gilbert & sullivan references
"Where you were when JKF was killed."
The expansion of the petrochemical industry.
bows + arrows.
Larry King.
Compassionate Conservatism.
Free-market Capitalism.
Whale-oil.
Moon-Men
Virginity until marriage.
Heaven, in the "pearly gates" sense.
Rocky Franchise.
White Jesus.
Multi-Tasking.
any "new black"
punk
Pogoballs (with a small chance of a brief resurgence)
Anti-Intellectualism (barring a catastrophic event)
Garage Bands.
"open" relationships.
privacy.
digital (and most other) media-copyrights.
Television. (as we know it)
land-lines
pennies (endangered: nickels. and on watch: dimes.)
Most large animals' natural habitats.
Freemasons.
Free, unlimited water.
unlimited internet.
and on the Please please please please please oh please, wish list:
the need for electric chords
or Regis Philbin (it's a tossup)
Read more!
11.08.2008
11.07.2008
further signs of the growing black hole of human intelligence, also known as executive america
Viacom faces a number of challenges, chief among them is the fact that its cash cow networks, MTV, VH1 and BET, are having ratings problems.
The company claims that ratings have gone soft because teens and 20-somethings are are tired of repeat programming. The solution, according to chief executive Philippe Dauman, is to "increase the amount of original programming;" add more components to "engage viewers" and experiment with "new ways to better serve our young audience and marketing partners."
Viacom also plans to ramp up promotional spots for some of its hits, including "The Hills" (above), "America's Best Dance Group" and "Exiled;" and to roll out some new original programs.
The comments were made during Wednesday's conference call, which was held to discuss Viacom's fairly rotten third-quarter. Net income fell 37 percent to $401 million, or 65 cents per share, down from $641 million, or 96 cents per share, last year. Read more!
The company claims that ratings have gone soft because teens and 20-somethings are are tired of repeat programming. The solution, according to chief executive Philippe Dauman, is to "increase the amount of original programming;" add more components to "engage viewers" and experiment with "new ways to better serve our young audience and marketing partners."
Viacom also plans to ramp up promotional spots for some of its hits, including "The Hills" (above), "America's Best Dance Group" and "Exiled;" and to roll out some new original programs.
The comments were made during Wednesday's conference call, which was held to discuss Viacom's fairly rotten third-quarter. Net income fell 37 percent to $401 million, or 65 cents per share, down from $641 million, or 96 cents per share, last year. Read more!
Studs Terkel leaves with one last great line...
Curiosity never killed this cat.
Studs Terkel's proposed epitaph
which inspired a skim through some other great epitaphs...
here in no order.. are some i came across....
To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
The Unknown Soldier, written by W. H. Auden
My Jesus Mercy
Alphonse Capone
She failed her breathalizer test
now she lays with the best
Jeanine Custis
Rosehill Cemetery
Newburg, Indiana
Jefferson Davis
At Rest
An American Soldier
And Defender of the Constitution
(1808-1889)
Jefferson Davis
Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia
Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake.
Colorado
Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek.
Silver City, Nevada
Goembel
John E.
1867-1946
"The defense rests"
Here lies the body
of John Round.
Lost at sea
and never found.
Belturbet, Ireland
Here lies
Elizabeth,
my wife for 47 years,
and this is the first damn thing
she ever done to oblige me.
Streatham Churchyard, England
Here lies
Ezekiel Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young.
East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
of yours.
Stowe, Vermont
Cold is my bed, but oh, I love it,
For colder are my friends above it.
Calvary Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
Ellen Shannon
age 26 years
Who was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with "R. E. Danforth's
Non-Explosive
Burning Fluid."
Girard, Pennsylvania
Arthur C. Homan's epitaph:
Once I wasn't
Then I was
Now I ain't again.
Cleveland, Ohio
Thomas Stagg's epitaph:
That is all
St. Giles Churchyard, London, England
Jesse James
Kearney, Missouri
Died April 3, 1882
Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days
Murdered by a traitor and a coward
whose name is not worthy
to appear here.
Val Nolan
Death Valley National Park, California
Died Aug 1931
Buried Nov 6 1931
A Victim of the Elements
Oscar Wilde
Pere Lachais,
Paris, France
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book, its
contents worn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for
worms. Yet the work itself shall not lost, for it will, as he
believed, appear once more In a new and more beautiful
edition, corrected and amended by its Author
Rodney Dangerfield - 1921-2004
"There goes the neighborhood."
"Hic depositum est, quod mortale fuit Isaaci Newtoni,"
which is translatable as
"here is deposited what was mortal of Isaac Newton"
Read more!
Studs Terkel's proposed epitaph
which inspired a skim through some other great epitaphs...
here in no order.. are some i came across....
To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
The Unknown Soldier, written by W. H. Auden
My Jesus Mercy
Alphonse Capone
She failed her breathalizer test
now she lays with the best
Jeanine Custis
Rosehill Cemetery
Newburg, Indiana
Jefferson Davis
At Rest
An American Soldier
And Defender of the Constitution
(1808-1889)
Jefferson Davis
Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia
Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake.
Colorado
Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek.
Silver City, Nevada
Goembel
John E.
1867-1946
"The defense rests"
Here lies the body
of John Round.
Lost at sea
and never found.
Belturbet, Ireland
Here lies
Elizabeth,
my wife for 47 years,
and this is the first damn thing
she ever done to oblige me.
Streatham Churchyard, England
Here lies
Ezekiel Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young.
East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
of yours.
Stowe, Vermont
Cold is my bed, but oh, I love it,
For colder are my friends above it.
Calvary Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
Ellen Shannon
age 26 years
Who was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with "R. E. Danforth's
Non-Explosive
Burning Fluid."
Girard, Pennsylvania
Arthur C. Homan's epitaph:
Once I wasn't
Then I was
Now I ain't again.
Cleveland, Ohio
Thomas Stagg's epitaph:
That is all
St. Giles Churchyard, London, England
Jesse James
Kearney, Missouri
Died April 3, 1882
Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days
Murdered by a traitor and a coward
whose name is not worthy
to appear here.
Val Nolan
Death Valley National Park, California
Died Aug 1931
Buried Nov 6 1931
A Victim of the Elements
Oscar Wilde
Pere Lachais,
Paris, France
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book, its
contents worn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for
worms. Yet the work itself shall not lost, for it will, as he
believed, appear once more In a new and more beautiful
edition, corrected and amended by its Author
Rodney Dangerfield - 1921-2004
"There goes the neighborhood."
"Hic depositum est, quod mortale fuit Isaaci Newtoni,"
which is translatable as
"here is deposited what was mortal of Isaac Newton"
Read more!
worldphuckingchamps
3rd strike for me... some punk is making a KILLING off of these shirts...
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11.06.2008
Philadelphia will cut you!
revolutionary war cheval-de-frise found last year in great condition in delaware river, south philadelphia. I feel obliged as a Hessian to go attempt to impale myself on it. but i won't. america started here.
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