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WORDBONER. just the name alone is genius. here is a sampling of their HIGHlarious/genius creativity. 

glad i'm not president.

Obama's press conference was well...a little harsh, a little much, a little unfortunate. 

but that's what happens when you take office from a rather incapable mr w. 

and really obama's been in office for a little more than 60 days and has been incredibly visible.  

he's everywhere.  press conferences, publicized meetings with congress, town hall events, leno, filling out college basketball brackets. i mean come on. he's letting us know the details of his plans (budget, recovery, etc) and managing to include march madness publicity at the same time. impressive impressive impressive.

so you can follow the link below and listen to his press conference on 3/24 or read the transcript (as if you will...)

speech/transcript 

but here was the brilliant quote from the not-so brilliant press conference.

obama was answering a question from a correspondent from ebony magazine 

he was asked about the homeless issue  (more like epidemic) in the US and obama provided a rather brilliant reply

"Now in the meantime, we've got to work very closely with the states to monitor and to help people who are still falling through the cracks. And you know, the homeless problem was bad even when the economy was good.  Part of the change in attitudes that I want to see here in Washington and all across the country is a belief that it is not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours." 

perpetually on the road.

commercialized landscapes.

"80% of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading—the village shopping plazas with their vast parking lagoons, the Lego-block hotel complexes, the junk food joints, the freeway loops around every big and little city with their clusters of discount merchandise marts, the whole destructive, wasteful spectacle that politicians proudly call “growth.” – James Kunstler 

the time has come the walrus said.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things:

Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--

Of cabbage--and kings--

And why the sea if boiling hot--

And whether pigs have wings." 

-- Lewis Carroll

MGMT:time to pretend:oracular spectacular

"this is our decision

to live fast and

die

young...

so why not have some

fun"

"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."

create. create. create.

"men must live and create. live to the point of tears."

            -camus

the hand that signed the paper felled a city

 The hand that signed the paper felled a city;

Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,

Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;

These five kings did a king to death.

The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder,

The finger joints are cramped with chalk;

A goose's quill has put an end to murder

That put an end to talk.

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,

And famine grew, and locusts came;

Great is the hand the holds dominion over

Man by a scribbled name.

The five kings count the dead but do not soften

The crusted wound nor pat the brow;

A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven;

Hands have no tears to flow.

-- dylan thomas 

death be not proud

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee 

Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, 

For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, 

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. 

From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, 

And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, 

Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. 

Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, 

And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, 

And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then; 

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, 

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

-- john donne

change we can believe in

"different IS NOT deficient." 

--Rev. Jeremiah Wright 

experience the bliss: RECORD STORE DAY.

"rock'n'roll needs to be seen, touched, smelled, and tasted just as much as heard.  i want the tactile, visceral, physical guts of it all.  i want to unroll the poster, open the gatefold, explore the cover art and the liner notes...i want a totem that exists in the physical world...we just want the blood and filth of real life and the purity of ecstatic transcendence--neither of which are available at Wal Mart." 

***sammy james, jr.-the mooney suzuki 

"moonlit strolls?? fancy pants dinners?? no thanks, i would prefer to fall in love in the aisle of an independent record shop. see you there..."

***bryan garza-scissors for lefty 

"you can't roll a joint on an ipod--buy vinyl!"

***shelby lynne 

"the indie record shop is a global institution.  it's a place that reflects history, the current state, and at times, can predict the future.  identities are formed and molded at record shops when on discovers an artist, an album, a genre, that moves them to no end.  it's a venue for human contact; a social HQ for all music fans and fans of all music."

***sam fogarino (interpol, magnetic morning) 

suffocating in silence

"i had seven faces

thought i knew which one to wear

I'm sick of spending these lonely nights

training myself not to care"

nyc. turn on the bright lights. interpol