Lists for October 10, 2006

From Deadwood Edition #129

On Deck

...wherein we listen to what Lawrence's movers and shakers are moving and shaking. to.

  1. "Echoes of the Past" Dead Noon
  2. "Goldberg Variations" Glenn Gould
  3. "O True Believer" James Blackshaw
  4. "Catapult Calypso" Ad Astra Per Aspera
  5. "Song of the Gypsy" Damon

Tubers

...wherein local TV connoisseurs intimate what keeps them on their couches.

  1. The Dog Whisperer "The host refers to himself as a dog rehabilitator and people trainer. He approaches dog training the way I would approach childcare."
  2. Project Runway "I wish I was related to Tim Gunn and I love to hate Nina Garcia."
  3. Battlestar Galactica "It's science fiction TV's half-assed attempt to make an analogy for the war in Iraq. And I like the word 'frak.'"

Bound Up

Currently reading: "A History of Roman Britain," Peter Salway "It's an extremely important part of world history that's not very well known."

One book everyone should read: "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (original, unexpurgated) "Kids learn valuable things from it. Lots of wisdom and real-life consequences; nature red of tooth and claw."

Top 20 Scandals That May Emerge After Foley-gate Gets Boring

  • 1. Air Force One is fueled with dead hookers
  • 2. Laura Bush is an illiterate ether junkie
  • 3. Trent Lott is actually Mexican
  • 4. Bill Frist has had 27 abortions
  • 5. Ann Coulter has same sex relations...with other horses
  • 6. Sam Brownback has sex
  • 7. Tom Delay gerrymandered California out of the United States
  • 8. Jack Abramoff opened an Indian casino in the Rose Garden
  • 9. Karl Rove outed the CIA's Secret Santa
  • 10. Condoleeza Rice was too busy touring with the LPGA to heed 9-11 warnings
  • 11. Donald Rumsfeld uses body armor meant for troops to pimp out his yacht
  • 12. Alberto Gonzalez water-boards kittens for fun
  • 13. Antonin Scalia plays "hide the gavel" with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • 14. Dick Cheney renamed Iraq "Haliburtoina"
  • 15. Michael Chertoff sold his stock in "Levees R Us" shortly before Katrina
  • 16. John Ashcroft recorded an album of sensual Christian poetry called "Stigmatarotica"
  • 17. George Allen stuffed a polar bear head in an Eskimo family's mail box
  • 18. The NSA recorded every phone call you made to 1-800-DONKEYS
  • 19. Rick Santorum was married in group ceremony to 3 Korean men, 12 schnauzers and a stapler
  • 20. Dennis Hastert hid a sexual predator in the House of Representatives...oh, wait...