Random Thoughts the Third

Chapter 12: Batter Up

http://www.wcax.com/story/23497721/domestic-attack-leaves-victim-in-critical-condition

 

Paris Review has some great interviews.

Dennis Cooper: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6098/the-art-of-fiction-no-213-dennis-cooper

 

Fitzgerald reads Shakespeare. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/25/f-scott-fitzgerald-reads-shakespeare/

 

Drinking alone is not so bad...once you get past the guilt.

 

Just saw Queen with Adam Lambert on the IHeartRadio show on YouTube. Lambert is easily the best accompaniment to Brian May and Roger Taylor since they started to play Queen songs again. Lambert doesn't have the charisma of Freddie Mercury (then again, few ever have), but he has the vocal chops, and a soulfulness that adds a little dimension. And Brian May can still play a mean guitar.

 

Biebs has a few chops. The "finishing 4th grade" line is pretty funny even if he didn't write it. Still gotta the timing to deliver it.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ca8e174a54/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-justin-bieber

 

Makes the fashion industry look diverse.

 

Samuel Jackson to Obama: "Be (expletive) presidential!"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/09/24/samuel-l-jackson-playboy-obama-n-word-mace-windu/2861981/

 

"Keep Miss Pussy clean all the time."

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151632331312129&set=vb.622617128&type=2&theater

 

Gen-X.

Relatable on many levels.

http://www.emptyage.com/post/11591863916/generation-x-doesnt-want-to-hear-it

 

As I work the last day at my office gig, I can't help thinking that the view from my new office is a vast improvement....