September 29: Failday

[sigma7]

So, let's count the things that have failed today¹.

-- The markets
-- The bailout
-- Wachovia (we could split hairs over what constitutes true fail, but face it, it's close enough -- spell-check wants to replace "Wachovia" with "Chekhovian" and I don't think even Anton was ever this dour)
-- The Legion of Super-Heroes (paging Christopher Bird, please pick up white courtesy phone)
-- Scott Linehan, former coach of the St. Louis Baabaas
-- The Hubble
-- Naked 52-year-old sex offenders found naked in a neighbor's daughter's bedroom with a knife, rope, condoms and a bad heart
-- Bat-flavored coffee
-- Gina Rue's suicide attempt (and I find this just after finishing Crysis Warhead with the riveting bridge cutscene)
-- Getting your butt stapled shut
-- Chili-eating-related fatality (from the Daily Fail, no less)
-- The New York Sun (final issue tomorrow -- print is dead, I tells ya)
-- My sanity and, of course, progress on GDBM (soon, I promise)

I'm sure there's more I'm missing, but those are your highlights. This should be a bank holiday -- like April Fool's, but inevitably self-inflicted.

¹Yeah, I'm cheating on some of these things having happened a few days ago. I'm adopting a quantum denial filter -- they didn't happen until I saw that they happened, and thus the waveform stabilized.

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Naked sex offender fail.
Dad FTW, all the way.

And I have to adopt the quantum denial filter idea.

[bedsitter23.livejournal.com]

Still good chance of some sort of Monday night Football fail before the clock strikes midnight.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

What is the deal with the stock market crashing in October? Black Thursday and Black Monday both happened in October and this was two days out. Guh.

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

My god, Shooter's Legion got cancelled? I am shocked, shocked by this turn of events.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

This has been a week of fail, really.

Seriously, 2008 should be the year of fail, the way this is going.

[redmonster.livejournal.com]

I think it's an individual's business if he wants to end his own life, but perhaps this should be a part of Suicide Etiquette: When you go to jump, don't take your dog along for the trip. That is SO not cool.

[endersgame3.livejournal.com]

damn. i shouldn't have let myself read this post. i'm SO going to be late to work now.

i was doing so well to not let myself click on your links. till i got to butt stapled shut. it went all downhill for me from there :P

[dancinastrophys.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I didn't even know about the Hubble thing yet! LAME! Thanks for the link! :)

Day of fail amen