Thanksgiving! It’s the closest America gets to an islamic state, Thanksgiving. Where the rooms are separated by gender, the men are all in the living room, women all in the kitchen. Men bowing down to the football game, women bowing down to the turkey…
– Garrison Keillor narrates a Thanksgiving dinner on last week’s Prairie Home Companion.Getting you university office squatted away from under your ass calls for exactly this: Every Single Fucking “Dude” from The Big Lebowski.
(props go out to monkai!)
Supercut of the Day: Every utterance of the phrase “hey man” in Richard Linklater’s coming of age cult classic Dazed and Confused (AKA what the hey, it’s Saturday).
Via The Daily What
Encyclopaedia Britannica have begun a search for the oldest edition still in private hands. Written in 1768, the very first edition provides insights into how vastly man’s priorities have shifted between the eighteenth century and today. The three-volume book includes, for example, 40 pages devoted to the diseases of horses, and 40 pages about algebra – but no information about children. (telegraph)
We’re Lutheran people. Even the Catholics up here are Lutheran. And I don’t like to generalize about Lutherans, but one thing that’s true of every single last one of them without a single exception is that the low point of their year is their summer vacation.
– Garrison Keillor about Midwesterners in his new book “Life Among the Lutherans”





