http://punkassblog.com Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:43:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have a contender. Meet Dmitri. He's a pick-up artist, which in itself gives him about 50 million douchebag points. He met a woman named Olga, who talked to him for a few minutes, gave him her card, and said, "Call me." So he did. She wasn't home, and he left ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/20/the-worst-person-on-the-planet/ So like I said in my last post, I'm moving. This will be the first time I've lived by myself, which of course has advantages and disadvantages. Ability to walk around topless whenever I want? Maru! Splitting the cable bill? Batsu! This biggest disadvantage ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/20/lets-talk-thrifty/ Hi all! I've been back from Europe for about a week now, and posting is still light. I got back at 9PM on a Sunday and had a 9AM Monday meeting, four projects to get caught up on, two younger students to keep occupied, and I have to move apartments. ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/19/checking-in/ I'm ba-aaack! (It's possible nobody noticed I was gone...but in case anybody DID--) In the past year or so I have gone on many, many, many business trips. Oh, to think that there was a time when I thought that business travel was probably Glamorous and Exciting and You Get To ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/18/bitch-business-travel/ Last week, I went and watched the new version of the movie "Get Smart". I had fond memories of the show when I was a child and it was on Nick and Night, but since nostalgia has burned me before (think the latest Indian Jones movie, Star Wars, Catwoman, ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/16/get-smart/ Folks, the internet has been won. Background: Something Awful commentators react to recently-released footage of then 16-year-old Omar Khadr being cruelly interrogated by Canadian officials at Guantanamo. Their reactions range from sympathetic to death threats—these soft children of privilege who never leave the comfort of their parents' basement, let alone face ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/16/hatecookies/ I got back from San Francisco pride a couple of weeks ago, and that is one intense. fucking. party., let me tell you. I thought I would be writing right now about the commercialization, commodification, and normalization of “the gay lifestyle.” I thought I would be talking about how the rainbow-banner ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/15/pride-is-not-the-opposite-of-shame/ I got back from San Francisco pride two weeks ago, and I'm still processing. I have many words to say about the experience and the city. Many. They are merely all freakin' jumbly. A brief summary of my brain: raw vegan tiramisu! / has that wheel always been there? / dykes ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/14/pride-intense/ Everybody is allowed to change their opinions over time. Even politicians. But many of Obama's progressive apologists make the claim that we shouldn't be so bothered by all of the rightward-leaning things Obama says, because he's REALLY a lefty-- he's just playing the game the way that anyone would have ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/14/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding/ But maybe I won't vote for Barack Obama after all. (eeeeeeeeeeeeek!) I did genuinely want to. I still won't vote for John McCain. I will never, ever of my own volition vote for John McCain. Seriously, you'd have to tie up my children and threaten them at gunpoint to ... http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/12/i-never-thought-id-say-this/