Gatsby 2.0

From today’s Wall Street Journal:

“The margin calls hit some chief executives who had borrowed to buy company stock. These included Chesapeake Energy Corp. Chief Executive Aubrey K. McClendon, who was forced to sell nearly his entire stake in the company, which he had accumulated in recent years, including a $43 million purchase in July. “These involuntary and unexpected sales were precipitated by the extraordinary circumstances of the world-wide financial crisis,” Mr. McClendon said in a statement. “In no way do these sales reflect my view of the company’s financial position or my view of Chesapeake’s future performance potential.””

DRAIN EMPTIES INTO BAY: DO NOT DUMP LAMERS

ignatz: the Black Gate slowly creaks open to reveal: http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/
ignatz: “hipster runoff” is the stuff they tell you not to put in the drains, because of the wildlife
zebulon_y: yes
zebulon_y: it makes local fauna boring and longwinded and stupid
ignatz: and they ask their parents for money and their parents are just fish and it’s all bad
zebulon_y: so they go get a fintoo
zebulon_y: some piercings
zebulon_y: and then are eaten by a predator attracted to the sparkle
zebulon_y: that’s actually the strategy of one of those crazy brain-controlling parasites
zebulon_y: larval stage in fish, releases brane chemicals that makes the fish swim upside down and crazy
zebulon_y: white bellies attract birds who eat them and parasite matures and spawns in bird
ignatz: That would explain a lot of indie rock
zebulon_y: so anyway if we could just tune that parasite to hipsters, yeah
ignatz: poseurplasmosis hottopicii
zebulon_y: more specifically the blogosphere
ignatz: Nothing sadder than a grouper with Guyliner

This here now electronic world we live in

Area man totally loses his shit and tries to destroy a donut shop containing those who rejected him.

He’s now in some serious trouble, but fortunately no one else was badly injured.

Because everyone is on myspace searchable by real name, we quickly arrive at http://www.myspace.com/bigmysterio and learn his personal life philosophy type quote phrase which is: GOTTA CROTCH ‘EM ALL!!!

Goin’ out to all the pretty girls, to all the pretty girls

Via Rubi

I like this yearbook fad.

My graduation year is actually 1983, but this ’78 pic is more representative.

Another Onion Headline Comes to Life. Er.

THE SENATOR THEN DIED

In other ludicrous military scooter news

whrr

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/who-wants-to-be.html

Lamperd Less Lethal’s T3 features an electric vehicle equipped with a pneumatic weapon that can be used for crowd control, reports the Sarnia Observer.

WHRRRRR WHRRRR

As mendel pointed out, running behind the scooter seems an effective enough defense, and provides comedy gold as a bonus.

boom

Clipped from metafilter

This Is Just To Say

I have taken
the Jews
Communists
and trade unionists
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

And Niemöller
you are
next

by metafilter user sixswitch in this thread

Data Processing Notes from All Over

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, my polling place for today’s election is:

Microsoft VBScript compilation  error '800a0411'

Name redefined

/vote/pollfind/verify.asp, line 255

dim con
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