ITEMS!

1. People who stand in line and take abuse to purchase an overpriced phone with a horrible shitty painful billing plan. THEY'RE FUNNY!
   
   
2. Full Sail's IPA isn't so great. A salad made solely of artichoke hearts with olive oil and basil, however, is so great.
   
   
3. Trying to figure out why I haven't been able to read more than 3 paragraphs and I can't get shit done, I noticed that I hadn't taken my Adderall or even picked it up from the pharmacy for more than a week. I should pay more attention! HAW!
   
   
4. http://www.peterkruger.com/lulzy/pages/birthofasupervillain_jpg.htm
   
   
5. NASA sent me email with the subject line "What's wrong with the Sun?" and I panicked a little. But it was just a tease. Apparently the Sun is still okay.
   
   
6. I can't believe Phil Gramm said the economic downturd was psychological and that we were a country of whiners. Did the Democrats pay him off with some hot toilet sex?
   
   
7. I live in the only place with acceptable weather currently.
   
   
8. I heard "I love a man in a uniform" on the muzak at Trader Joe's yesterday while I was in line behind a woman who wore camo pants with "peace" on the ass.

And so it begins...

US Measles Outbreak Hits 15 States

I'm taking my nephew to a Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever party as soon as I can!

Throw me the whip! No, throw me the mortgage!

IndyMac Bank, a prolific mortgage specialist that helped fuel the housing boom, was seized Friday by federal regulators in one of the largest bank failures in U.S. history. The thrift was one of the largest savings and loans in the country, with about $32 billion in assets. It now joins an infamous list of collapsed banks, topped by Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co., which failed in 1984 with $40 billion of assets. The bank will be run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., a federal regulator, and will reopen Monday.

Via Wall St Journal

Edit: Additional comedy from the full article: IndyMac specialized in Alt-A loans, a type of mortgage that can often be offered to borrowers who don't fully document their incomes or assets. SO THERE'S NO CTRL-Z AMIRITE???

Don't Look Back

Those were careless days, and the road stretched on and on
Now it's a wonder and a shame that those careless days are gone

-- Peter Case, "Horse & Crow"