The Misspent Life

Can You Dig It?

It is almost May.

Tonight! Tonight! It's coming tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Hot damn, tonight!

So I found out this afternoon that I got a special award which means I will get more $$ for school. This is fantastic news.

Amazon.com stuff

Did you know that every time you click on a link that I make to Amazon.com (like this, buy Snow Patrol) and you actually buy something within 24 hours, even if it is not what you clicked to, I get a cut?  I had forgotten about this, but then I get an e-mail today from those fine folks saying that I have made $10 in the past four months! I am ROLLING!

For Bertie

I love egg.

Even Though I Ain't Got Money

Now, I don't portend to bring you any great intellectual content here at The Misspent Life.  Nor do I serve up cutting social commentary to whet your reactionary-fascist demands.  But I have noticed a sharp uptick in site visits lately.  I checked my site meter and I found that a chunk of my readers were in Continental Europe.  Now, for a while there I was posting some interesting stuff about Kant and Hegel, but I doubt that is it, and my British readers are in the next time zone bucket.

So why are these fine folks coming to my site?  On word: Schnappi.  See here for more.

Weekend Report, Delayed

As some of you have noted it has been a while since I have filed a Weekend Report. Quite honestly, that is because I haven’t had much of a life. Well, last weekend I did have something remotely resembling what used to be my life.

Painful Television

Did anyone watch Meet the Press today?  I caught it this morning and it was an extremely painful experience.  I was at first attracted to it because they were going to be spending the entire hour discussing Pope things.  There were about six people, ranging from Opus Dei people to E.J. Dionne.

Everyone talked slowly and very tentatively--the "progressives" were afraid to say anything that would call out the slapdown from the "conservatives" and vice versa.  It was interesting to hear some of the lay people talk.  It was obvious that a few of the lay people had looked up several quotes and references that they wanted to use.  An editor of Newsweek was throwing out one after another and when threw out something from Augustine, some of the panelists smirked.  I would have liked to see someone ask for more thoughts about Augustine.

In general, it is impossible to have insightful discussion with so many people in such a restricted format with such a variety of participants.  Like I said.  It was painful television.

On Fire and Hitting it Big

Blimpish made it into the Guardian--although whether it was print or just online is not clear to me.  Although from the tone of the article I have my doubts whether the author ever when to Blimpy's site.  This quote gives that fact away: "I struggled to find spittle-flecked hellholes."

Happy Earth Day

Man on Fire

Our man Blimpish really astounds sometimes.  Just when good people like Mrs. P start thinking he's a upstanding bloke, he throws out something nasty.  Just when you think that he's spending too much time reading obscure collections of correspondence between philosophers he will tell you about his adventures down at the pub.

This week, Blimpish returned from a short absence with something new--mocked up pictures.  Who knew a Straussian could also be adept at Photoshop?  Surely, if the left-wingers find this out their heads will explode.  After all, the Straussians control everything and now they can control images?  Aaaaah!

Anyway, check the stuff out, salty language and all, here, here, and here.