RIP SPINOFF CITY

TeamFILO.org used to have a page called Serioustown, where cold, laughless stuff lived.

But since one of FILO's main agendas is the healing of the division between hot (funny, earthy, loose), and cold (sharp, serious, grown-up) expression, Serioustown became incorporated into Spinoff City. It was supposed to be a place where anything not so strictly FILO lived.

Maybe these things were there:

"HAND CRAFTED DRIFTWOOD FURNITURE and ORGANIC EGGPLANT jim grows in his garden next to the gypsum factory that never shuts down...

After you make yourself crazy bidding on an eggplant, you will wait for it to arrive. It will arrive packaged in a personified way, like a stout young man, the defensive lineman cousin of a California Raisin. "

The problem with Spinoff City was this:
If the FILO mission of reconciling poles of expression was to succeed, and it's tendency to swallow any output by Luke or pals as part of FILO, through easy leaps of self-reflexive justification, was to continue, Spinoff City would become irrelevant: everything will be FILO; nothing spun off, and things truly exterior could just be on the Lynx page.

Spinoff City. It started pretty skimpy. It ended all wimpy.

EARN MY ASS

The writer illuminates language-born bias everybody is victim to when discussing CEO pay. Example: "CEO X earned over 30 million dollars last year. " No, CEO X was paid that amount. The word earn is not objective; it connotes hard work and slants the argument in favor of the executive, right as we begin to talk about whether the amount has any relation to the value brought to company by the person's services. I'll let the link do the talking.

BOW-TIE HOPE (NATIONAL REVIEW GUY MY NEW CHUM)

See, some of their guys are not so retarded. Fair shake! Honest take! Third party please for common-sense conservatives who have a brain, and aren't so scared they might like franks in the butt, that they suggest constitutional amendment-level repudiation of gay love. Of course I can't deduce from linked article if the writer is not one of the secret homos (as opposed to me, an open-minded, fuzzily affiliated orifice plugger) (we are all fuzzy, honestly- refuse binary sexual understanding ). I'm just saying I would be so happy if the right would break down into its components, showing the hate-freaks for the fractional bunch they are. And then I could stop hating half the country. (which is lame and knee-jerk I know; just so hopeless sometimes, and when you're already into throwing chairs for smaller reasons-I'm irritable.)
Barry Goldwater, defending fellow Arizonan Sandra Day upon her appt to the Supreme, said he'd kick Christian ass after Falwell threw some shit out there about her. What happened to that kind of guy? Other stuff not so good, but y'know what I'm saying. Republican kicker of wrong Christians' rears.