Prolegomena To any Future Blogger Community, or ReAssembler, The Nimble Epicure: Essay Eleven
What exactly does applying to become a 9-1-1 Dispatcher for a large city Police Department have to do with being an epicure, a chess expert, an editor of a security magazine, and a parser of unusual English words? What does this have to do with phenomenology, or French Deconstructionism or Structuralism, German anthropology, fencing, demi glace, or vinology? Kind readers are invited to read on: I think of myself significantly eclectic, but our subject for today wins the blo
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Shuggy tags me with this meme. I respond out of courtesy, rather than because I think I have anything useful to add. Q1. How would you define "atheism"? Obviously, as the belief that there is no god. However, this belief can be held with less than total certainty, and need not be one you regard as especially important or constitutive of one‘s identity. My biggest beef with many theists isn’t so much the substance of their belief - we all have strange ideas - as the vehemence with which they hold
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Last night, I walked into a record store and bought Lil Wayne's new album, Tha Carter III. It felt a little surreal. Wayne's fans have been thinking about this day through so many endless months of postponed release dates, mixtape teases, scene-stealing guest appearances, and leaks of varying quality; I sometimes think the only entity more absurdly, entertainingly prolix than Weezy himself is the blogosphere hivemind when it talks about Weezy. I'm certainly guilty of over-parsing the guy's pre
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Last night, I walked into a record store and bought Lil Wayne's new album, Tha Carter III. It felt a little surreal. Wayne's fans have been thinking about this day through so many endless months of postponed release dates, mixtape teases, scene-stealing guest appearances, and leaks of varying quality; I sometimes think the only entity more absurdly, entertainingly prolix than Weezy himself is the blogosphere hivemind when it talks about Weezy. I'm certainly guilty of over-parsing the guy's pre
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Whenever a conservative gets caught in an embarrassing story - liberals are appalled at hypocrisy much more than the sin itself. As Jonah Goldberg wrote in the wake of the Larry Craig story, Since most on the Left think Craig’s alleged sexual liaisons are perfectly benign, they shouldn’t object. “Who are we to judge?†and all that. Rather, the Left claims it hates Craig’s hypocrisy, not his behavior. From Rush Limbaugh’s drug use to Bill Bennett’s gambling to the long list of R
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I was really looking forward to a Rick Ross sex tape but this will do for now. Via TMZ:: Verne Troyer is in a sex tape shot with his former live-in girlfriend at the couple's apartment. A third party has snatched up the tape and although no deal has been made, we hear dealer Kevin Blatt, who brokered the deal for Paris' video, is entertaining a $100k offer from SugarDVD to distribute the nastiness. Unfortunately the only thing you can view now from the leaked tape is them kissing. You have read
Nasty, nasty, nasty… but I know some people dig the midget thing… so here you go! Verne Troyer made a sex tape with his former girlfriend, and now the same people who made a killing off the Paris Hilton sex tape are trying to work out a deal to get this one - for $100,000… That’s it???? Click here to see a piece of the video from TMZ! AND WATCH OUT as you’re searching the web for the rest of video… When there was a rumor about an Eva Longoria sex tape, I found a TON of sites that claimed t read
A Mini-Me sex tape has emerged! TMZ has a “short” clip of Verne Troyer frenching his live-in girlfriend at the time. The two have since broken up. (And, no, the girlfriend isn’t a Little Person.) A third party got their hands on the video and SugarDVD has reportedly offered $100,000 for the sex tape, but no deal has been made. Click here to watch the clip if you dare (I couldn’t do it). read
Verne Troyer is the latest celebrity with a sex tape. “Sex tape” and “Mini-Me” are probably two things you never thought you would see in the same sentence. TMZ says he shot it with his former live-in girlfriend at the couple’s apartment. A “third party” has possession of the tape and is trying to cash in. No deal has been made yet, but apparently Kevin Blatt, who brokered the deal for Paris Hilton’s sex tape, is entertaining a $100,000 offer from SugarDVD to distribute it. TMZ has a short read
