Saturday, February 21, 2009

I'm Definitely Getting Old

Because every time I hear M.I.A.'s caterwauling, monotonous Paper Planes



I want to yell "What the f__ did she do to STRAIGHT TO HELL!?!"



I get sampling. But there's sampling, and then there is defecating on a classic.

If he had not ascended straight into punk heaven, Joe Strummer would be rolling in his grave!

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File Under: News That Should Not Surprise Anybody

Dubai Property Prices Are Crashing

"Wait, you can't build an economy through speculation on real estate built by foreign laborers and fueled by petro-dollars? Why didn't you tell me sooner!"

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How House-flippers Have Brought on the Apocalypse:

From Life With Father:

"The real villains here, the truly bad seeds at the heart of this crisis, have gone unpunished thus far and are still in operation," writes Pressler. "They are Jeff Lewis and Ryan Brown of Bravo's Flipping Out, Armando and Veronica Montelongo of TLC's Flip This House, Kristen Kemp of TLC's The Property Ladder, Kendra Todd of HGTV's My House Is Worth WHAT?, and the TLC, Bravo, HGTV, and Fine Living networks in general. All of them encouraged people to take out massive loans in order to buy and renovate homes and sell them at a profit when, really, most people have terrible taste, and furthermore, are bad at laying tile. These shows are still on! WHY?"