links for 2008-01-23

Superheroes in Real Life – City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul) I’m torn between admiration and contempt. (tags: superheroes weird comics) White Whine A tumblelog of white people whining. Hilarious. “My chiropractor has the worst selection of magazines in his waiting room; I mean, thanks, but I already read November’s issue of Golf…back in November!” (tags: funny […]

You Stupid Fuck

Heath Ledger is dead of a drug overdose. Naked and dead (according to Warren) in Mary-Kate Olsen’s apartment. (Apparently this wasn’t true, at least the Mary-Kate Olsen part.) This is appalling. Not only did Ledger always strike me as a bright, honest guy, but he was also one of the very few actors of his […]

Jesus.

I took a break from my other projects tonight and wrote the saddest song I’ve ever written. Not melancholy, but just plain heartbreakingly sad. I didn’t even mean to write something like this. It just came out. It’s called “Not In This World Or The Next One”. It’s about a soldier in Iraq, singing a […]