Beltmann

And Mizoguchi.

I almost included a similar pic with my last post!!

Well, the search for life must go on...

Once? My head's in someone's vagina at least twice a week.

I'm hoping for "You Are My Face" or "Hate It Here."

But you got me all wrong... If I could abort 50 fetuses in exchange for new outfielders for my softball team, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Plus, I bought a whoopee cushion today. True story.

SWEET! I don't care what the universe thinks--that T-shirt fuckin' matters!

Indeed. It may be arrogant and self-centered, but what's the alternative? Hopeless nihilism?

Yeah, that's one of his best, for sure.

Perhaps I have overlooked how the history of mankind is, indeed, the history of rational behavior. The rational choice may be the 12 embryos, but faced with the emotions of the moment, I don't believe many humans would make the rational choice--just like no parent would ever let their own child die to save 12 strangers, despite that being the rational act. But how is this the most pressing aspect of my argument? More importantly, the Brewers are up 6-1 on the Cubs! I'm out. TV is calling.

No fisticuffs--I understand and respect ....'s perspective, and have even agreed with quite a few of his posts in this thread. It's just an interesting conversation.

Oh, M. Chris, I meant to write this earlier: I totally agree with the above.

Same here. TC never quite won me over the way the first two did--those were albums that, when I wasn't listening to them, I was eagerly trying to get back to them. While I really liked TC, I never felt that way about it--but I do feel that way about Challengers.

If two children were in a burning building, and one belonged to you, which would you save? Obviously, you would choose to save your loved one, but does that choice, based on subjective emotion, imply that the other child's life is somehow less worthy? Of course not... all it does is reveal our human tendency to make decisions based on subjective emotion. That's the problem with your scenario--it asks people to make a subjective, emotional choice, and, as humans, we can hardly be blamed for choosing the being that most closely resembles ourselves. But subjectivity and emotions should have n

Seems about right. I was there.

Did you catch her on Letterman last night? She played "1 2 3 4."

Bump... reminder: Wilco on Leno this Thursday, August 30th.

Disquieting documentary about the 24 people who leaped off the Golden Gate Bridge during 2004, most of which were captured by a film crew staking out the bridge for an entire year. The money shots--people dropping to their deaths--are plentiful and morally questionable, but they are countered by ironically serene images of this grandiose red structure and painful interviews with friends and family who ruminate about illness, suicide, and loss.