Totally Obvious

2011-09-18T15:30:00.000-07:00

"Space is bad, but time is OK." (possibly misremembered title of a Drew Gardner poem)

2947

2011-09-12T21:59:00.000-07:00

the President of the United States is a BLACK MAN!!!!

2946

2011-01-25T02:57:00.000-08:00

Death in shopping malls is an increasingly common occurrence.

2945

2011-01-25T02:56:00.000-08:00

People with a conscience have a lot of trouble to function in most fields of work.

2944

2011-01-25T02:55:00.000-08:00

A life is a file and kids can be dicks

2943

2010-12-06T23:18:00.000-08:00

earthworms probably don't spend much on shoes

2942

2010-09-26T21:25:00.000-07:00

islands are surrounded by water

(note: just fixed my numbering error)

2402

2010-09-26T21:22:00.000-07:00

eating too much food makes you fat

eating too much fatty food makes you fatty fat

2401

2010-06-28T16:47:00.001-07:00

a Market Economy is a system in which people buy and sell things.

This can sometimes occur at places called "markets".

(maybe this should be posted in "Totally Redundant")

2400

2010-06-28T16:41:00.001-07:00

it is a good idea to put your penis completely INSIDE your pants before zipping up.

2399

2010-06-28T16:39:00.000-07:00

french fries taste good with ketchup

2398

2010-06-28T16:38:00.001-07:00

cats meow

2397

2010-06-28T16:37:00.001-07:00

summer is hot

2936

2009-12-12T13:17:00.000-08:00

blankets can keep you warm

2935

2009-11-24T21:57:00.000-08:00

totally obvious statements, when short, could easily pass for tweets.

2934

2009-11-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

New York City is a city in New York.

2933

2009-11-10T09:34:00.001-08:00

Mexicans like to eat beans

2932

2009-11-10T09:33:00.000-08:00

the hamburger is a popular American meal

2931

2009-11-10T09:31:00.000-08:00

men don't menstruate

(it should be called "womenstruation")

2930

2009-11-10T09:29:00.001-08:00

rainy days are wetter than sunny days

2009-09-11T18:18:00.000-07:00

In 1939, it took the so-called "Dies Committee," an early formation of HUAC, feeding biased and incomplete testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, headed by anti-New Deal Dem Clifton Woodrum, to sell the idea that the Federal Theater Project was the propaganda arm of the Roosevelt administration, and to defund same. And only after a three year run that produced thousands of plays and other performances nationally -- from the "Living Newspaper" and other New York productions around which controversy swirled to regional and traveling companies putting on Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan, and vaudeville in communities of all sizes for audiences of all socio-economic strata. In 2009, it only takes a few segments by a clownishly emoting instapundit to make the current administration "reassign" an NEA communications director on the basis of similar charges. Light a candle for Hallie Flanagan, and hope that the increased speed of communication also speeds the time until this particular cynical demagogue overplays his hand.

2929

2009-08-13T12:33:00.000-07:00

beer tastes slightly better the first time it passes through your body

2928

2009-08-13T12:32:00.001-07:00

red and blue are different colors

2927

2009-08-11T23:11:00.000-07:00

grass is green

2926

2009-08-11T23:10:00.000-07:00

children love candy

2925

2009-08-11T22:59:00.000-07:00

fresh air is eminently breathable

2924

2009-08-11T22:55:00.000-07:00

gay guys prefer penis.

(see 2919)

2923

2009-08-07T09:14:00.001-07:00

Asian people have slanty eyes.

2922

2009-08-07T09:04:00.000-07:00

wars tend to be violent in nature.

2921

2009-08-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

a computer is not a rock.

2920

2009-08-07T08:58:00.000-07:00

the odds that your Mom gave birth to you are fairly high.

2919

2009-08-07T08:57:00.000-07:00

homosexuals like to have sex with their own gender.

2918

2009-08-07T08:54:00.000-07:00

fire trucks are often painted red.

2917

2009-08-07T08:49:00.000-07:00

deaf mutes don't use telephones

2916

2008-09-08T21:28:00.001-07:00

Google's CAPTCHA has reached the point that it virtually requires a computer to solve it.

2915

2008-09-08T21:26:00.000-07:00

The Totally Obvious Renaissance begins the day after tomorrow.

2008-09-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

so it goes, morning discourse, unable to capture its rythm as soon I start to scribble, syntax seeps through linguistic motion, therefore once all is settled, and by this we mean geographical sphere, we need need to start dictating the verbatim recopying.

drugs drugs drugs these insomniac outbursts, body feeling like steel screaped against wood, infected, talkative, acrimonious, bitter, clearsighted. Lucidities glorious abound not in meanind but by the finality they procure to streams previously unlocked and dramatised. I will bespectacle myself with the mediocre shades when that door is crossed, onto the populace, chaos. Til now, ti;e indomitable and still lenient, slow, allowing aches in my brain to solidify, the blood on the mirror to dry.

Why the gun, a sensible question, to be expected when said rifle is put on display so articulately in your face, one can examine its detached coolness on a youthful body so evidently self obsessed.
But if you ask I will answer not with those artificial inanities, not with prepared ponderations... It is the I, the demons inside, that a person has, behind petrified eyes, poly;orphous and installed in this flesh, that is always present, they are, to destroy, to protect. It is the self that points calmly to the head, this spectacle of inner violence, theatrical, lyrical and grotesque, bathed in sin, lacerated by noise, every action is a kill, that is my vernacular, to kill signifies to act, it involves a movement, a choice and a death. Micro- organisms and feelings, tremors and heartbeats. This is a kill. My day that commences with military exercise, breaks the physical comatose, breaks into the day, this is a kill. Each instant and its small deaths, every gesture succeeding the last, to be partaken as a craft, as an occurence parenthetical and still subject to the chronology of the day, there is always a flow, everything so fucking continuous, not necessarily geometrical, just streaming through, waves on an electrocardiogram. And these spasms only can interrupt the continuum, for a while, the gasps of transient limbo, out of time and color, comprehended in motion, not language, be it visual, audible or otherwise. Metabolic interpretations, organic caesuras occuring in minuscule terrains where synapses cogitate the rest of the time. They help us sane, bring us closer to a peace unsoiled by the mundane, the behavioral artefacts cluttering this existence . I don't know if it is the

2008-09-07T17:00:00.000-07:00

Isn't it totally obvious that this blog is dead?

2913

2008-09-03T17:55:00.000-07:00

it's not a good idea to smear your body with fish sauce and play with hungry polar bears.

2912

2008-09-03T17:52:00.000-07:00

people who stop breathing usually die.

2911

2008-09-03T17:49:00.000-07:00

hunger is often followed by the eating of food.

2910

2008-09-03T17:41:00.000-07:00

ice cream is not hot.

it tends to be on the cold side.

cold-ish on average.

2909

2008-09-03T16:43:00.000-07:00

toilet paper is absorbent.

2908

2008-01-14T19:09:00.000-08:00

Flat seltzer water tastes like water.

2907

2007-09-18T21:14:00.000-07:00

sometimes people fight

2906

2007-09-11T09:45:00.000-07:00

9/11: #6 in a series

2905

2007-09-07T21:19:00.000-07:00

hilly kristal is not billy crystal.

2904

2007-09-05T19:44:00.000-07:00

"disposing of properly" requires garbage cans.

2903

2007-09-05T19:43:00.000-07:00

dogs can't read.

2902

2007-06-25T01:42:00.000-07:00

Rock and Roll is not all Gravel and Biscuits.

2901

2007-06-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

Hot delicious cheese pizza is not as enjoyable when taken rectally.

2900

2007-06-18T16:40:00.000-07:00

toast and butter is good.

2899

2007-06-13T09:54:00.000-07:00

coffee is not juice

2898

2007-05-23T14:14:00.000-07:00

I have never lost an internet argument.

2897

2007-03-22T18:31:00.001-07:00

many members have been booted off of totally obvious.

2896

2007-03-10T23:07:00.000-08:00

A Milky Way is NOT a Snickers.

NOT!!!!

2895

2007-03-04T18:50:00.000-08:00

Jaded people get even more jaded around non-jaded people.

2894

2007-03-04T18:49:00.000-08:00

Dummies tend to look rather dum on stage.

2893

2007-02-24T13:59:00.001-08:00

God doesn't hold endermology symposiums in Kentucky.

2892

2007-02-24T13:52:00.000-08:00

Elephants find bar stools uncomfortable.

2891

2007-02-24T13:51:00.000-08:00

Small people compensate.

2890

2007-02-23T18:49:00.002-08:00

Hamsters don't make fashion statements.

2889

2007-02-23T18:49:00.001-08:00

A trout cannot give radical political speeches in public.

2888

2007-02-23T18:48:00.001-08:00

Fires are hot.

2887

2007-02-23T18:47:00.002-08:00

Magnets are attractive.

2886

2007-02-23T18:47:00.001-08:00

Salmon are not men.

2885

2007-02-23T18:46:00.001-08:00

You never hear dead people complaining about parking tickets.

2884

2007-02-23T18:45:00.001-08:00

Frank Sinatra can't sing anymore.

2883

2007-02-23T18:44:00.000-08:00

Turtles do it in a shell

2882

2007-02-23T18:43:00.000-08:00

Snails don't know they're slow.

2881

2007-01-28T01:40:00.000-08:00

ghosts are uncanny

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2880

2006-12-24T00:51:00.000-08:00

She is a pronoun.

2879

2006-12-17T20:57:00.000-08:00

sometimes enough is not enough.

2878

2006-12-17T05:35:00.000-08:00

obvious statements change in meaning when one meets the statements' authors.

2877

2006-12-15T17:21:00.000-08:00

The New Narrative is now Old.

2876

2006-12-14T23:58:00.000-08:00

alcohol is intoxicating

2875

2006-12-14T23:56:00.000-08:00

three-twenty ninths of the totally obvious blog members are now in the same room.

2874

2006-12-12T22:18:00.000-08:00

a motorcycle typically has more than 1 wheel and less than 3 wheels.

2873

2006-12-12T12:11:00.000-08:00

Men enjoy their penises.

They tend to prefer them in the attached variety.

2872

2006-12-12T11:11:00.000-08:00

Chimps don't usually smoke cigars in the wild.

2871

2006-11-30T20:49:00.000-08:00

Garbage is one reason why I do not want to drive a garbage truck.

2870

2006-11-30T20:46:00.000-08:00

If I drove a garbage truck, Marx would consider me to be part of the proletariat. This is one of the reasons why there is not a lot of competition to get the job driving the garbage truck.

2869

2006-11-30T20:45:00.000-08:00

Women, in general, do not know very much about weapons. This is why they are not a "revolutionary class" in the Marxist sense.

2868

2006-11-20T02:55:00.000-08:00

When talking about the "revolution of the earth" one may be refering to a revolt of the earth.

2867

2006-11-20T02:53:00.000-08:00

In almost every instance of my arriving home, I park my car.

2866

2006-11-20T02:50:00.000-08:00

The biosphere is not actually a sphere.

2865

2006-11-20T02:49:00.000-08:00

One becomes highly confused when one confuses the blogosphere with the biosphere.

2864

2006-11-20T02:47:00.000-08:00

not all text is destined for a blog somewhere out in the blogosphere.

2863

2006-10-28T22:25:00.000-07:00

Most stories would end happily if the tellers only knew where to end them.

2006-10-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

All spirituality is new-age spirituality.

2861

2006-09-26T16:58:00.000-07:00

Obvious statements can be made on other blogs, and in other places, not just on the Totally Obvious blog

2860

2006-09-19T11:02:00.000-07:00

when Jesus said "repent", he never imagined myspace or the internet*

2859

2006-09-01T21:24:00.000-07:00

There will never be a vehicle named the nazi.

2858

2006-08-25T22:43:00.000-07:00

tenderloins are soft

2857

2006-08-25T22:38:00.000-07:00

penises are manly

2856

2006-08-25T22:30:00.000-07:00

There are many differences between a Chinese peasant and a young Norwegian professional.

2855

2006-08-21T20:53:00.000-07:00

the sun does not actually set.

2854

2006-08-06T05:07:00.000-07:00

This is yet another totally obvious statement.

2853

2006-08-06T05:05:00.000-07:00

If poetry were more like the summer blockbuster it would have a larger audience.

2852

2006-08-06T05:02:00.000-07:00

The cat's popularity as a pet is likely linked in part to their purr.