AP: Florida’s unemployment rate for Oct. jumps to 7% (highest in FLA since Sept. ‘93).
November 2008
57 posts
‘Twill be a long few weeks, vamp kids. CAN’T STOP doing my best Antony during Twilight ads. Fun,yes. Welcome @ work, no. http://is.gd/8jAi
Also, who wants carrot cupcakes?
My outrage over a borked OTM podcast cannot be constrained to 140. Starting a blog about it. See you at freegladstone.com.
Oh, what the hell… Gladstone gets sick and even the podcast doesn’t work? Can’t anyone else at On The Media do a little SOMETHING arou …
Tanya Tucker brings us a moving tribute to all things coked out and inappropriately sexual: http://tinyurl.com/5py9s4
November PA™ announced
The Please. Award™ for November 2008 goes to: Sharilyn Johnson and her employment of a high-profile soapbox to further whine about an inconvenient truth.
Johnson gave Huff Post her piece on getting the shaft outside an overbooked TDS on election night. Fine. But, ironically, for someone who “could write an entire book on (her) emotional philosophies of comedy” (Oh, Amazon Wish List, I won’t forget you.), the piece was noticeably barren of humor.
Now, if you, like me, are incapable of managing your time and actually read the entire piece, well, the laundry’s not folding itself, is it? And if you, like me, wound up rolling your eyes, assuming this was nothing more than a spoiled child’s sense of entitlement run amok, Johnson will right us all:
I don’t believe in being entitled to anything just because I’m a fan, or am a bigger fan than this person or that person.
But I am owed. (…) What I’m owed is the experience of witnessing history take place somewhere other than alone an empty bar on 11th Avenue, sucking on a can of Bud Light, feeling completely emotionally empty.
Please. Bud Light? You are owed nothing.
‘Cept this:
NEEDED: Firefox add-on that blocks any and all references to an individual. For example, anyone with the last name Palin.
It’s not my birthday, but it’s so my birthday! ☛ Fox cancels ‘Mad TV’ - http://www.variety.com/VR1117995723.html
Grocery store has spices on sale—40% off. Checking Craigslist for goats and pre-teen pickpockets. I WILL have my own Marrakeshian souk.
Classmates are trying to sue you! Upgrade now to find out who! http://is.gd/7lt1
Two words: Boxcar Willie.
XM hielten sich fuer schlaue leute! NEIN! Nicht schlaue leute! http://is.gd/7bm6
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Was Jeff Ross in a coma? Gawd. http://tinyurl.com/6byjux
30th child (since July) dropped off under Neb. safe haven law. This lil’ tyke happens to be 18 years old, bipolar and adopted.
Merrill Lynch Visa rep. to Mom: “Are you in Italy, renting golden gondolas & taking cappuccino baths?” Her: “I don’t need this on a Monday.”
Boyfriend Arm Pillow wraps around you as if to say, “I’m sorry work was rotten today,” or “There’s no shame in giving up.” http://is.gd/6Rr8
