Screw you and the moocow you rode in on

This week in That Annoying Guy I Work With News:

We discover that That Annoying Guy is not only a member of the Music Appreciation Society... he's the president.  Co-worker Longshoreman (so named because of his truly impressive facial hair) and I decide to needle him about this.  That Annoying Guy explains that they all go to concerts together and such, and their meetings have a different theme every week, but they usually get to listen to good music -- "Unless someone brings in Lady Gaga," he says with a visible shudder.

Longshoreman then launches into an impassioned defense of Lady Gaga, invoking the storied history of performance art as well as Guy Debord's seminal text Society of the Spectacle along the way, until That Annoying Guy starts to look really uncomfortable, says "Well, okay," then gets up and leaves.

At which point Longshoreman looks at me, shakes his head, and says "Nah."

Also, some funny things:
~Gatsby comics
~"Hit it, Gandalf"
~Homage Week at How to Write Badly Well

I couldn't even get through the one paragraph of faux-Joyce.  I CANNAE DO IT, CAP'N!

Student Quote of the Day: "My paper doesn't really have a due date; I just have to get it to my teacher by Thursday."