Monday, October 13, 2008 | by nathan

Weekly Reader: 13 October 2008

I think from now until Election Day, I’m going to have to divide Weekly Reader into two sections: Election Links and Non-Election-Related Links. Let’s start off with the good news: The Non-Election-Related Links:

The Working Closet Pool at Flickr

Many thanks to Whoorl, who created this wonderful pool where you can submit photos of what you’re wearing to work every day. I haven’t checked extensively, but I might be the only male in the entire group. Still, I don’t care. Also, just to encourage your participation, here’s what I wore to work on Friday:

The Domesticated Shithead Gets Letters

Let me just tell you how happy I was to welcome Patrick Hughes back to the world of blogdom. This entry, a response to a letter someone wrote him about what he thinks about the supposed return of 90s culture into the mainstream (something that’s news to me), here’s what he had to say:

"If I were to overcome my resistance to talking about culture in neat little 10-year nubbins and assign some sort of distinction to "the ’90s," it’d probably be as the period in which enthusiastic fans of pop culture, the types who can’t settle for the top 40 or get too thrilled about the latest Hollywood blockbuster, gave up drugs, fucking and generally being awesome to endlessly argue about arbitrary classifications and parse meaningless data like a bunch of pussy-ass nerd bean counters. From this perspective, "the ’90s" really have never left."

The Parallel Film Guide

"The Parallel Universe Film Guide, a sort-of comprehensive database of movies bearing uncanny likenesses to classics and not-so-classics cataloged by IMDB. We’re stunned to find new favorites like 1972’s The Lovablest Mafia Family in the World, the 1985 culture clash Suddenly Amish, the award-winning drama My Wild Irish Invalid and the unfinished silent classic The Night Jerker among many others, all neatly cross-referenced by star, director and even memorable quotes. If you can browse the PUFG and manage to get any more work done today, then you’re just not paying attention." – defamer.com

A site you can easily get lost in for hours.

Now, for the politically minded, the undecided, the very decided, and people who still wonder if Sarah Palin thought maybe Jesus rode around on a dinosaur…

ELECTION LINKS

Rednecks for Obama

You might think this site’s a joke, but it’s really, really not, and thank God, too, because here I’d started to give up on rednecks altogether. And as someone who’s only about a generation from redneckery himself (and pretty proud of it sometimes), it’s good to see my people coming through, even just a little bit.

Fuck Off Sarah Palin

A wonderful CafePress store where you can tell the VPILF exactly how you feel about her. The best part? All proceeds are donated to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name.

Fighting for Equal Pay

Michelle Obama blogs about equal pay for women and why supporting Barack Obama is so important for women.

Bill Ayers And What Isn’t Being Talked About

Tish makes a wonderful bunch of points about the current faux-kerfluffle about Bill Ayers and why it’s not what John McCain and Sarah Palin want you to think it is.

Style, Weekly Reader

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