This is profoundly retarded. And you know how I feel about calling things retarded. (hint: generally don’t do it.)

Rapper Coolio is set to perform the “flight of the angel” at this year’s Carnival of Venice - breaking a tradition which has usually involved a beautiful woman swooping down onto Venice’s St Mark’s Square from the basilica’s bell tower. “It (the choice of Coolio) is a blow of diversity, because it will involve a black man with a turbulent past,” the Carnival’s artistic director Marco Balich was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency on Wednesday.

There is absolutely nowhere to go with this.
My mind has been blown.
I’m going to go die now.

[venezia.net, via Ben, via Lopez WHO SAW IT IN REAL LIFE]

Categories: too bizarre brain does not compute, coolio, seven thumbs down
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So every day AU sends out AU TODAY newsletters to update the campus on shit. Today’s included this:

“Say Never Again to Genocide” Rally Info Meeting. Darfur Action (a chapter of STAND: The Student Anti-Genocide Coalition) is planning a “Never Again” rally to take place this Holocaust Remembrance weekend at the Capitol, and we need your help. Come today, January 24, at 8:00 p.m. to the Clark Conference Room (the building behind the library) to get involved. Do you have activist, art, Web site, business, set up, outreach, or any other skills? We need you. Help us spread the message that we need to make genocide a thing of memory by standing up and stopping atrocities in Sudan. [insert email here] for more information.

Respectable cause. But look again.

“Say Never Again to Genocide” Rally Info Meeting. Darfur Action (a chapter of STAND: The Student Anti-Genocide Coalition) is planning a “Never Again” rally to take place this Holocaust Remembrance weekend at the Capitol, and we need your help. Come today, January 24, at 8:00 p.m. to the Clark Conference Room (the building behind the library) to get involved. Do you have activist, art, Web site, business, set up, outreach, or any other skills? We need you. Help us spread the message that we need to make genocide a thing of memory by standing up and stopping atrocities in Sudan. E-mail [insert email here] for more information.

Activist skills. Which just translates to a sense of superiority, right?

Set up skills. Doesn’t that just mean manual labor? (in that case, no I don’t have set up skills. I’m lazy).

Outreach skills. Meaning you know how to whore your cause? I don’t get it.

I don’t now. I guess he or she tacked on “skills” to a bunch of things that aren’t really skills and thought that would be OK. But it’s not. Abusing the english language like that isn’t going to help prevent genocide when it makes me want to kill the entire activist race. Fuck.

Categories: online terror, dic*s, great use of the english language, liz = d i c, terrorist attacks, jews, Liz
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