THE PAREENINGTON POST

I’m just looking forward to the first piece of hate mail I...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:12 -0500

I’m just looking forward to the first piece of hate mail I get that references “Old Dogs.”

"They obviously then started up the conversations, and started talking about Brett Favre. They soon..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:34:45 -0500

“They obviously then started up the conversations, and started talking about Brett Favre. They soon learned about Favre going to the Vikings, and things just started going downhill from there.”

- Detainees at Camp in Iraq Use Favre To Tease Wisconsin Soldiers (via celebraterickysargulesh) (via wizardishungry)

Photo

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:01:57 -0500

I don’t get the video,they are in striped jackets,and...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:12:54 -0500

I don’t get the video,they are in striped jackets,and Peter’s playing the piano.I don’t get the choo choo train left out in rain,the day after santa came,or Cherry Delight left in the night and gave up without a fight.
- Jennifer Harris, Grand Blanc, MI

Pow!!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:48:06 -0500

Pow!!

alexbalk: I’m sorry, I find this headline hysterical. It...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:39:09 -0500

alexbalk:

I’m sorry, I find this headline hysterical. It doesn’t even matter what it’s about. It just is.

Ahem.

(Feat. The Eagles)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:53:13 -0500

(Feat. The Eagles)

Modern-day morality tale.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:19:20 -0500

Modern-day morality tale.

"At the time, Mr. Bloomberg said he was not concerned about the higher rents that the $5.4 billion..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:22:00 -0500

“At the time, Mr. Bloomberg said he was not concerned about the higher rents that the $5.4 billion price would require. “You always feel sorry for those who can’t afford it, but those who can afford it say, ‘What about me?’ ” he said.”

- God bless every self-declared liberal who voted for him.

Top Ten Reasons to Vote for Mike Bloomberg

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:08:22 -0500

peterfeld:

7. He’s kept crime going down without the Mussolini-like police tactics of Giuliani. There have been no mayorally-sanctioned police hate crimes like Diallo, Louima and Dorismond.

Well, as long as Mike didn’t sanction Sean Bell and Michael Mineo, I guess he’s fine. Though retaining Ray Kelly no matter what happens (I know, I know, he gets results, dammit!) seems like a tacit endorsement of whatever shit goes down. Like, you know, refusing to turn over any documents relating to the GOP convention (or was that also ok because it just involved infringing on the rights of dumb hippies who ran red lights?), and all that illegal domestic spying. (did you argue the merits of warrantless-wiretapping?) It should probably be more explicit: a vote for Mike is a vote for having your community policed by a paramilitary counterintelligence agency that operates entirely without mayoral oversight.

This is only the second-most disgraceful thing about Bloomberg, obviously, this pretending to be better than Giuliani while the NYPD continues to do do whatever it wants without consequences. Personally I still find the 40,000 people in shelters thing a little more upsetting.

"Literally Any Human Being Not Named Michael Bloomberg" Wins Coveted Gawker Endorsement

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:16:48 -0500

"Literally Any Human Being Not Named Michael Bloomberg" Wins Coveted Gawker Endorsement

WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOG SHOCKER

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:06:21 -0400

WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOG SHOCKER

placesweusedtogo: My weekend football predictions. Call your...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:18:13 -0400

placesweusedtogo:

My weekend football predictions. Call your bookie now.

Rams at Lions final score: 5-5. That’s my lock of the week.

“The first couple of days will be the usual mess. But I...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:48:29 -0400

“The first couple of days will be the usual mess. But I think you’ll find readers will contribute unexpected things” —Nick Denton

Did you hear the one about the Minister and family doctor who killed a half-dozen people selling a...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:34:24 -0400

Did you hear the one about the Minister and family doctor who killed a half-dozen people selling a phony cancer cure on Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s tv channel?

Late to this, but

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:31:34 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

Rex/Pareene, do you take issue with Jay Chrepta calling Minneapolis “the Upper West Side of Middle America”? Because I would.

Jay Chrepta commutes from 83.7% white Rochester, which is sort of the Greenwich of Minneapolis.

soupsoup: Twins bandwagon, here I come! (until opening day...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:48:52 -0400

soupsoup:

Twins bandwagon, here I come! (until opening day 2010)

This adorable fellow — T.C. Bear — became a Twins mascot in, according to Wikipedia, the year 2000, well after the point when I’d feel the need to defend his generic mascot-ness based on childhood nostalgia. But! There is history: he is basically a straight rip of the adorable booze-shilling bear mascot for Hamm’s beer, the Hamm’s Beer Bear. Hamm’s is best known today for being the beer some guy on Mad Men wasn’t drinking, one time.

The tragic story of Hamm’s is the same as the tragic story of every other middle state-intoxicating mid-century brewery, and it’s ably told in this great Salon feature.

Anyway! Go Twins! What a fucking game.

Sporting News

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:12:57 -0400

Moe and Peggy Noonan and I are guest-editing Deadspin today!

rendit: ronghorse: The Replacements-“Can’t Hardly Wait”...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:27:32 -0400

rendit:

ronghorse:

The Replacements-“Can’t Hardly Wait” (Outtake Acoustic)

It’s that staggering, ghostly call-and-almost-response at the end that really seals the deal.

This was recorded, if I remember the story correctly, in a ventilation shaft. Surprisingly, their recording sessions with Chilton “producing” did not yield an album’s worth of releasable material.

Can’t wait for this to make Drudge! (Also, to be fair, the...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:37:19 -0400

Can’t wait for this to make Drudge! (Also, to be fair, the 18-year-old autistic victim was probably a filthy lying ACORN.)