"I'll just wait until next year to talk"

"Right now Mercury ... is in a corner perfectly aligned with my star. Mercury is no good, so if it's not good, I am going to request not to speak. I'll just wait until next year to talk."

said the Prime Minister of Thailand. (via http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/21/thai.pm.ap/index.html)

Astrology. It's a bitch.

bored? want to be a contestant on jeopardy: useless/vapid pseudo pop culture edition?

try:

www.gawker.com - the neophyte's blend of paris hilton and judith miller.

www.fluxblog.org - free and delicious daily mp3s.

www.pitchforkmedia.com - they weed out the bad stuff so you don't have to

www.lindsayism.com - on obnoxious photgraphers at parties - "From now on, I will only attend parties with a bottle of either Drakkar Noir or Axe Body Spray in hand. A photographer has one chance to respect my wishes, and then he or she (though it's usually a he) will get sprayed."

"It’s just the same 30 douchetwats playing grab-ass with each other 6 nights a week"

Bands ramming their political opinions down everyone's throats is nothing worth mentioning.
Unless they're the Right Brothers.

Check out their song "Bush Was Right"

http://www.therightbrothers.com/audio/bush_was_right/Bush_Was_Right.mp3

and the lyrics:
Freedom in Afghanistan, say goodbye Taliban
Free elections in Iraq, Saddam Hussein locked up
Osama’s staying underground, Al Qaida now is finding out
America won’t turn and run once the fighting has begun
Don’t you know that all this means…Bush was right! Bush was right!

and a statement fron the band:
"This is what the youth in America need. They’re already bombarded with songs on the radio and videos on MTV that trash our President, conservative beliefs, and traditional American values. From “Mosh” by Eminem, to “Idiot Son of an A**hole” by NOFX… all of these songs serve to fill young people’s minds with LIES.
WILL YOU HELP US? We’re putting together a “kickin’” music video right now, and we’re preparing a HUGE grassroots campaign to get hundreds of thousands of people to request “Bush Was Right!” on MTV’s “Total Request Live” show… leading to our demands for it to be played in regular rotation!
If they DON’T - then we’ll hit the media in a BIG way, showing how MTV plays left-wing videos while CENSORING conservative videos!"

punchline- (via http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/16/bush-was-right/) - this isn't a parody.

start building those bomb shelters now. OH, THE LIES!

now get rid of that bad taste in your mouth with a delicious weekly serving of Blue States Lose (http://www.gawker.com/news/blue-states-lose/blue-states-lose-138252.php)
where they "sort through the galleries of fucked-up hipsters at The Cobrasnake, Last Night’s Party, Misshapes and Ambrel so you don’t have to. Then we bring you our 10 favorites each Friday." Best caption: “On the count of three, I’m going to try really hard not to be a stereotype, OK? Alright, here we go: 1 … 2 … oh fuck, can we start again?”