Cyrus Farivar

“If Cartman were to get his own small Asian country, he’d run it a lot like Kim Jung Il.” – Matt Stone, to Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” October 14, 2004

Bush: 7.5 Kerry: 8.75 – What was with the almost exactly identical outfits? Someone really needs to bust out with a wacky tie one of these days. Black suit, white shirt, red tie with white dots, American flag on the left lapel? – Bush has been coached and has gotten better relative to himself over the past debates. – Bush likes to check that the lectern isn’t running away, he hit it about 20 times during the debate. – As…

I can’t deal with comment spam anymore and I can’t get the MT-Blacklist to work, so I’m shutting down comments on this blog indefinately.

Well, last night, anyway. I had thought about live-blogging it, but was glad someone did it for me in a much funnier way that I could have done.

New story in Wired News — this grew out of an assignment that I had last week for RW1.

We had to go on police ride-a-longs last night. Mine was rather uneventful. We were asked to send around via email something memorable from the night. Sarmad, our student from Baghdad, had this experience: Hi, As I , Channing and two policemen from the 76th Precinct approached a group of people who were apparently spending the weekend near Red Hook Park in Brooklyn, the two policemen and Channing started to laugh at two “ostensibly women” who were buying some food…

I want to Roast a Pig — Need Sources for Pig, Roasting Equipment: Question: I want to roast a pig — enough to feed 20-30 people — in about a week and a half. I live in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I am most interested in renting a Caja Chino, but I am open to other cooking methods. If you have attempted a project like this I would really appreciate any advice and potential sources for the pig itself and equipment. Reply:…

So apparently my namesake wrote a famous scroll that the Brits are loaning back to the Iranians. How thoughtful of them. This clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with an account by Cyrus, king of Persia (559-530 BC) of his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC and capture of Nabonidus, the last Babylonian king. Cyrus claims to have achieved this with the aid of Marduk, the god of Babylon. He then describes measures of relief he brought to the…

Kerry: 8.5 Bush: 6.75 Bush gets a slight increase for not being *as* jumpy as he was before — oh and for this line in regard to the question about the draft: “I hear there’s rumors on the, uh, Internets.” Kerry was strong, clear, decisive, made his policies understandable. I’m glad he was straight on his taxes. And plus, it was really good that he went back over the question about why people don’t like us abroad. You can’t just…

Why didn’t anyone tell me that John Flansburgh had another band (Rich? Boyk? Frysinger?) ? They’ve got some neat stuff. I was perusing the TMBG site today and downloaded the TMBG Clock Radio — basically a downloadable program that acts as Internet radio station that only plays TMBG. On it, I discovered a song called “Hillbilly Drummer Girl,” which was really poppy and fun (turns out it’s a cover of a song written by the Young Fresh Fellows, but still).…