66% of THE JO-TEL is “losing it Scalia style”

I work in Concord.  For those not familiar with the "East Bay" Concord is a North California city located 30 miles from San Francisco.  It is a suburban metropolis dropped on top of a white trailer-trash community.  Imagine the possibilities!  Imagine the mall!  
Below is a temporal log of my recent trip to the mall to […]

For those of you who don't know, Hip E. (writing as the mysterious "Matt") is the author of that semi-famous craigslist post "Hey Crackhead".  A simple google search for "hey crackhead" will educate you as to the extent of the craze.  We often joke that Hey Crackhead "was" the high-point of Hip E.'s comedic career.  […]

In this installment of PETE's Corner, PETE reviews the recent Arcade Fire/ LCD Soundsystem concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Arcade Fire and LCD were great. The Hollywood Bowl is also a great venue. It's really, really fucking loud.
The crowd disappointed me for LCD kind of. Mostly sitting around, very little dancing, […]

I am not a man, I am dynamite.                                  -Nietzsche
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You know how the Buddhists talked about lust for material possessions being the root of all pain?  Well, they were obviously right, but also obviously too quick to formulate a holistic philosophy on this true but incomplete surmisal of everything.  What they forget […]

Marriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the one that is more than those who created it. The reverence for one another, as those exercising such a will, call I marriage. –Nietzsche

I've been instructed that I'm not supposed to link to popular youtube fodder.  Apparently, our's is a blog that features original content.  But there's just too much to talk about here.  See bullet points below. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACobXN7_p8

First things first: I love how nervous the red-hair moderator looks when the world is flat chick starts talking about how […]

Why would there be?  I admit though, if I hadn't had the insouciant temerity to try it last weekend when I was drunk, I may have agreed with what you, upstanding reader, are probably thinking: beer bonging wine sounds disgusting and, for some reason, immoral.
Prepare to re-evaluate. Wine, unlike beer is not carbonated, so, when […]

Um, on the topic of the jo-tel being down for about a week … sorry.  It wasn't our fault.  It was the (probable) fault of our mysterious service provider Midphase, who, having sat on hold with them for a total of .8 man hours, I can attest has THE worst on-hold music in the world […]

I (right) will never again be as cool as I am in this picture, circa 2005. 
  
Neither will Hip E. (left).