Yesterdayland.
 

PJ O'Rourke's new piece in The Atlantic tears down Disney's new House of the Future. PJ's at the top of his game, so you should read it all, but I liked this part in particular.

• Disney’s Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative. This isn’t the fault of the “Disney culture”; it is the fault of our culture. We seem to have entered a deeply unimaginative era.
  
  Let us not confuse imagination with innovation or even with progress. Man’s descent from the trees and adoption of the brilliant mechanics of bipedalism were innovation and progress of the first order. But what did we do with this progress for our first million years as humans? As best we can tell, we hung around the Olduvai Gorge and beat some rocks together to make “chopping tools.”
  
  On the other hand, the Italian Renaissance was so imaginative that during its three centuries, practically everything worth imagining was imagined. And yet not much was actually invented in Florence, Pisa, or Rome.

Re: Yesterdayland.
 

Speaker: Welcome - to the electric car of the future! Sponsored by the gasoline producers of America.
Electric Car: Hello, I am an electric car. I can't go very fast, or very far. And if you drive me, people will think you're gay!

Re: Yesterdayland.
 

Hey Gatti, the ghost of Walt Disney just called and told me to tell you that if you don't have an animated .gif of a hot chick, you shouldn't post today. He also said something racist too, but I told him that it wasn't cool man.

Fun With Fonts
 

Christmas gift for Atticus?*:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/26/optima-prime.jpg

TM

*This is a total shot in the dark, but isn't he the one who gets all excited over fonts?

Re: Plexico Burress
 

Does she like Proust?

Re: Plexico Burress
 

She was a Russian plant. Chuck Barris would have had to kill me if I didn't go through with it. It was a sacrifice I made as a patriotic American.

Little none post-logue: in 1981 I was retroactively awarded a medal of honour, and Nancy Reagan blew me in the Lincoln Bedroom...... so it was not all for naught.

Re: Wrong board, but what the hell.
 

We got Wii over the summer. We have a 7 yr old boy and a 4 yr old girl. Both kids love the Wii sports package that came with the system (bowling, tennis, golf, boxing). Girl enjoys Disney Princess. Boy loves Mario Kart, Super Mario Brawl, Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiano Jones.

Make sure you have enough wii-motes and nunchucks. (We have 2 of each, plus 2 steering wheels for Mario Kart.)

It's fun. You'll like it.

ETA: Word to the wise -- if you hook the Wii up to the internet, you may want to supervise the kids' play. Apparently, the Wii store has Wii penises (penii??) for sale. Or, at least, so advised my sister-in-law . . . over Thanksgiving dinner.

Just say "no"
 

Did she close her eyes? Did you?

CDF

Goodbye, cruel boards.
 

I wondered what happened to Bilmore. I wouldn't have believed any one person could drive him off these boards. Is that really what happened?

CDF

Re: Plexico Burress
 

But what does SAM think of her?

Re: Plexico Burress
 

Blind cock. I've seen prettier motorcycle accidents. The only thing worse than the helmet there is the pair of softballs stapled to her rib cage, three inches too high.

I'm fine with enhancement, but having the same guy who did your Lasix put them in is unwise.

Behold the gentle Flower of Progress
 

In New York, you wouldn't have survived to reproduce.

CDF
(Warriors!)

Re: Behold the gentle Flower of Progress
 

Chevy represents the gangsta wing of the Patent Bar.

Highlander!
 

There can be only one.

CDF

Bible study.
 

Love is patient, love is kind, cock is blind.* Words to live by.

CDF
* Corinthians (modern version)

Re: Just say "no"
 

No need, she swallowed.

No, I was watching the Sylvia Kristel version of Lady Chatterly's Lover-it was slated for imminent release (npi) and the WH had an advance screening copy.

Re: Goodbye, cruel boards.
 

He sold me his sock and then I lost the log in.

Re: Fun With Fonts
 

Yes, but I was always too old for Transformers.

Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

Thank you for reminding me that by now, I should know better than to encourage you.

Still, I'm disappointed there was no eye contact. How impersonal.

CDF

Re: Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

I didnt say that there was none. Think positive.....if the image with eye contact included works for you, go with it.......just make sure your door is locked before you go too far........

Them dry bones.
 

The smarter course would have been to deny it. I think you were after more than just her body.

CDF

ETA: you loved the right not wisely, but too much?

Re: Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

Ronald Reagan was my boss for a bit. He never had to come criticize me or correct my job performance so I never met him; still I feel close to him. When you claim to have sex with Nancy I feel how Ty must have felt when he overheard the two of us talking in the sauna about the times Sidd went away for the weekend those few weeks in a row back in '99.

Re: Plexico Burress
 

You are apparently a much harsher critic than I -- particularly of women's breasts.

S_A_M

Re: Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

I was a big Reagan fan, but, I worked on the Hill. Separation of powers, iykwim.

Re: Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

if by "working on the hill" you mean you dated chubbos, yes, IKWYM.

Re: Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

You are apparently a much harsher critic than I -- particularly of the Hill's pork barrel stature.

Re: Plexico Burress
 

Lasix is what I take to make me pee out excess fluid. I don't think even RT's sister's mystery date would want a girl who peed through her sacks o' silicone.

Re: Behold the gentle Flower of Progress
 

I got stuck watching an episode of "Gossip Girl" with the Princess last week. There was this grizzled old writer dude character on the show who seemed vaguely familiar. Finally, I realized, it was him. The "come out and play" guy.

Weird, that.

Re: Thank you for your "campaign contribution."
 

I'm beginning to enjoy this fake rivalry.

But please: No judging.
 

Top book covers of 2008. Good stuff.

Re: Plexico Burress
 

You should try beer. It makes everything more fun.

TM

Jury Duty Update
 

I am in the box, have been voir dired, and will find out this afternoon whether I am going to be kept or perempted. I am not concerned about the defense. They have more scary fish to fry. But I could not get a read on where I stood with the prosecutor.

Stub Hub question
 

I have a question about Stub Hub. I found out at the last minute that i"m going to be in NY this weekend and so is my mother. Since White Chrimstas is my mother's favorite holiday movie, I'd like to take her to see the broadway show on Saturday night. Obviously the tix are sold out so I looked at Stub Hub. I'm happy to buy tix on SH, but they ship by Fed Ex and use Standard Shipping so I'm concerned that I'm not going to get the tickets in time for the show. Has anybody else used SH to get tickets for a last minute show? Was there any problem expediting delivery of the tickets? I don't see a method for expediting the shipping when I try to purchase the tickets.

Re: Stub Hub question
 

they overnight, or arrange for local pick-up. that said, I did have them screw up a last minute delivery once (but didn't pay).

Re: Stub Hub question
 

If you pay with a credit card, the card should protect you in the event that they don't deliver.

Re: Stub Hub question
 

You could have the tickets delivered by fedex to your hotel and have them hold them there for you.

I've never had a problem using stub hub for anything, and I use them all the time.

Re: Stub Hub question
 

that's a rather unsatisfying remedy, though. "Mom, I bought tix, but they didn't arrive. Good news, though--I get a full refund!"

Re: Stub Hub question
 

Indeed. A half-decent credit card company would find a way to get you comparable tickets at the last moment.

Re: Stub Hub question
 

Where can this mythical beast of which you speak be found?

Aleve Cold & Sinus
 

Is there anything this stuff can't do?