Ken Layne's Blog, page 18
October 11, 2012
Liveblogging the Biden-Ryan Debate, On Mute
Ken: Ryan’s shoulders sink ever deeper inside that giant David Byrne suit.
Is it weariness, boredom, petulance?
Choire: I think he really believes whatever wacky things he’s saying–PTERODACTYLS? LEGITIMATE RAPE?–and he’s sad that Biden laughed at him all night.
Ken: I swear his head was a line higher in the Declaration or whatever it is, the backdrop.
Choire: He IS getting lower and lower! Like a hungry zoo animal.
Ken: Yeah he definitely doesn’t look hurt. It’s more like, “Why do I have to sit by this old man? Ayn Rand said to kill the old people.”
Yes this was something we did tonight ….
October 10, 2012
Hello! Here is a bunch of stuff I’ve written for The Awl...
Hello! Here is a bunch of stuff I’ve written for The Awl this week:
Is Barack Obama Still “America’s Cool Uncle”?
Up And Down With Andrew Sullivan
Hellbound Americans Rapidly Abandoning God
Roach-Eating Contest Ends With Winner’s Terrible Death
… and a bunch of other stuff.
August 30, 2012
Which presidential candidate you’ve never heard of matches...
Which presidential candidate you’ve never heard of matches your U.S. policy beliefs exactly? Find out today, do it now!
August 28, 2012
Message on mylar balloon discovered within the designated...
Message on mylar balloon discovered within the designated wilderness of the northwestern corner of Joshua Tree National Park reads as follows:
THIS IS FROM LAKE ELSINORE. HOW FAR D[I]D IT TRAV[EL]? 951-790-[…]
The answer? About 80 miles W/NW. And this is the first time I’ve used brackets and ellipses to designate lacunae while transcribing a message on a mylar helium balloon launched in Riverside county and found tangled up in some cholla cactus in a national park. Had the rest of the phone number survived the flight, I would probably be talking to a couple of friendly stoners right now.
August 27, 2012
Somebody is going to build the first space elevator. I’m...
Somebody is going to build the first space elevator. I’m backing this guy, because he asked nicely. I am not ready to leave space travel to “the people who have all the fun after I am dead.”
August 11, 2012
Winning the Propaganda War by any means necessary.
Winning the Propaganda War by any means necessary.
Greatest Apparel Website of Our Era (Mid-August 2012)
To sell T-shirts to high-school girls, these people have amassed an amazing collection of satanic ritual photography.
"We seem to be running short of mysteries and cranks nowadays. They get palmed off to old folks’..."
- Commentary: Modern neighborhoods lack mysterious personalities | The Oshkosh Northwestern | thenorthwestern.com
Lapham's Quarterly: “Thus, magic in every papyrus; magic in all the religious formulas;...
“Thus, magic in every papyrus; magic in all the religious formulas; magic bottled up in hermetically closed vials, many thousands of years old; magic in elegantly bound, modern works; magic in the most popular novels; magic in social gatherings; magic worse than that, sorcery—in the very air one…
