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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    05/17/09

    In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
    Quit waffling on twee: it's never good. It means sugary, overly-precious, diabetic-coma inducing crap that is in bad taste. Think of the bedroom decorations of a 7 year old Paris Hilton, or one of those Christmas-in-July stores you were dragged into by some horrid relative at some time in your poor brutalized childhood. That's twee. You may now continue, but this little vid ain't twee, and don't go there again. Who keeps letting the children out to blog on the weekends?
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    05/17/09

    @irishbreakfast: But what's more twee than being ostentatiously anti-twee, huh?


    Also known as the I'm-Not-a-Hipster paradox.

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    05/17/09

    @irishbreakfast: What's the word for pompous, overly critical, eye-roll inducing comments that are just bad form?
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    05/17/09

    @Awesome X: "entertaining"? and to skahammer: "ostentatiously anti-twee" is my new motto, thanks!
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    05/17/09

    @irishbreakfast: Douche'.
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    05/17/09

    In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
    Something tells me that cartoon is the future of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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    05/17/09

    @El Matardillo: Yes, but which is Bill and which is Hillary?
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    05/17/09

    In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
    In the Ware cosmology, that head is actually a cat's, not a mouse's.
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    05/17/09

    @WretchedGnu: Mousehead, cathead, shrunkenhead. Tomato, tomoto, potato.
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    05/17/09

    In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
    Aside from Lynda Barry and Ruben Bolling, Chris Ware is the god of a comic book culture that is otherwise pretty shallow.
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    05/17/09

    @WretchedGnu:


    re: Lynda Barry. If you can catch her on her speaking tour she is a delight. Smart, funny, and interesting. Saw her last summer and she signed copies of her new book What It Is. Awesome book too.

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    05/17/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: That book is the one thing I haven't seen yet. I used to live in Evanston where she might still live. Got my own signed picture of Marlys playing basketball for some reason.
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    05/17/09

    @WretchedGnu: I could never hate on Chris Ware. Although I enjoy (not quite the word) the equally bleak Rusty Brown and Jimmy Corrigan stories more than Quimby escapades. PS: I would add Dan Clowes to your list.
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    05/17/09

    @WretchedGnu: "...Marlys playing basketball..."? Heck yeah!
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    05/17/09

    @Carol Gardens: Oh, there are a dozen or so wonderful comics people out there. Charles Burns, Alison Bechdel, David Mazzucchelli, Seth, Scott McCloud, Kyle Baker, Joe Sacco, and Bryan Lee O'Malley, to name a very few. Even some of the ultra-mainstream sci-fi and fantasy stuff is pretty good - has anyone tried Transmetropolitan or the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
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    05/17/09

    In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
    I'm not sure what words I would use to describe that cartoon. But I am sure that "twee" wouldn't be one of them.
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    05/17/09

    @saintjim: "horribly sad"?
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    05/18/09

    @saintjim: On the one hand, I am relieved that it's a mouse and a CAThead, for reasons I can't quite puzzle out.


    On the other... Is this more or less alarming than Tom and Jerry? I almost prefer my cartoon animals trying to murder each other, when presented with this unexpected alternative.


    And lastly, the music is unexpectedly catchy.

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    03/16/09

    In reply to Writing About Good Music Is Hard
    During my visit to Tucson, we took a trip to buy produce of integrity at a Whole Foods supermarket overlooking the city.... The cacti outside reminded me of the often thorny music Case admires and composes.


    Spare us from produce without integrity. Lying, thieving vegetables remind me of the wilted, flacid, rotten state of municipal government in Tucson.

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    03/16/09

    In reply to Writing About Good Music Is Hard
    Yeah, why aren't we allowed to write about something that we wish was more popular in an attempt to help make it more popular?
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Writing About Good Music Is Hard
    I must be getting fucking old, because as a former MAGNET subscriber ('92-95?), I'd much rather read well-thought out-but-maybe-kinda pandery-y pieces in the New Yorker or in the Times Magazine today.

    Awkward, yeah maybe.

    But then I read a pieceabout Bishop Allen in last week's Times and think things aren't so bad.
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