Continuing my mission to remain your up-to-date news source for all things swine flu related, it turns out the disease has already made it to Michigan and Ohio. It looks like things are about to get post-apocalyptic. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Pandemic II it’s that my only remaining option is to get [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
For the record, I propose “Spic flu”
I’m not sure what caused the Middle East to depart from their usually quite rational thinking, but an Israeli official has stated that the name “Swine Flu” is offensive.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed “Mexican” influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official [...]
“Drinkin’ Ten-Dollar-Henne A Shot”
So tonight after a ridiculous evening where we ran out of everything (hommus, falafel, chicken, mjaddara, kafta, fattoush, grape leaves) at Jerusalem Garden somehow, my pal Ashley dropped in. Her original plans were foiled by the unparalleled devastation she found, but after she swept the floor we went out for a drink and some yogurt. [...]
Jerkin it
Many thanks to Ben Had Dicks for treating me to this new craze. Thank God summer starts next Tuesday so I can work on my skillz. In unrelated news, guess I should find myself a dance crew. Obviously it will have to be named something nearly as cool as “Go Go Power Ranger$”. I’m thinking [...]
Sometimes Music Is Awesome (Pt.1)
Thanks to the magic of the internet this Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice record has recently become a possession of mine. It was a tour release limited to 1000 copies on vinyl, and it sounds like drinking iced tea in the evening of your day off (via a Jeremy Peters-esque classification). It’s probably still out [...]

