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"I smell terrible all the time. "

“I smell terrible all the time.”

Great barter

Have someone staying in your home and you want out? Well today’s the day. See I smell terrible all the time. Have me around for a bit and they are sure to want to leave. Really this will work. I want in return iPads, laptops, cash, gold, cash. Email for more info.

 

10 search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

  1. coma film 1978
  2. man who famously sold his mustache
  3. people selling their skeletons before they die
  4. how much should a blow job cost?
  5. film version of alvin toffler’s future shift
  6. are we underestimating the risk of human extinction?
  7. information about spider sabich
  8. early computer baseball leagues
  9. george lincoln rockwell alex haley interview
  10. burial of siamese twins eng and chang
Afflictor: Thinking this was the week when we could have used advice from someone who has experience with a lot of snow.

Afflictor: Thinking this was the week when we could have used advice from someone who has experience dealing with a lot of snow.

  • Silicon Valley is competing with academia and Wall Street for economics PhDs.
  • Bruce Schneier is more concerned about surveillance than cyber crime.
  • Chris Ware worries about memories processed through smart phones.
  • Luc Sante considers the meaning of Inside Llewyn Davis.
  • Gary Marcus questions the likelihood of human-ish AI.
  • A brief note from 1891 about a widower.
"I'm fine with broken legs, smashed skull."

“I’m fine with broken legs, smashed skull.”

Animals, wild game (Carroll Gardens)

I am interested in any and all dead wild animals in decent condition.

If you hunt, or live in a place where you often see roadkill, it’s easy to throw it in a freezer and later bring it to the city. I would like whole animals, but also have interest in unwanted parts- heads, organs, pelts, trimmed fat, scrap meat, carcasses, etc…

In exchange I can provide you with money or some kind of service or trade. I can also butcher/process animals and give you the parts you want and keep whatever is left.

Animals I want: Deer, rabbit, squirrel, mouse, muskrat, chipmunk, turtle, raccoon, beaver, hare, bear, coyote, fox, fish, grouse, wild turkey, other birds, turtle, frog… probably any animal. As long as it came from the wilderness. No subway rats, apartment mice, house cats, etc.

What I consider decent condition:

Relatively fresh-some smell or a small rotting area is okay, my standards are lower than many.

Relatively in-tact–I’m fine with broken legs, smashed skull… anything really as long as the animal is not completely exploded.

Additionally, I am interested in any surplus food or plant like edible weeds, wild/sour apples, and black walnuts.

If you are able to do this, or know someone who might be up for it, please contact me. Thanks.

Kidney and I.D. for sale – $2500

Im in need of money and willing to sell my kidney-$6500 (non smoker and non drinker) or i.d.-$2500 (social security card and birth certificate).


A special thanks to all the Midwesterners who came to our city and urinated on the buildings in Manhattan last night. Now we don’t have to clean them for another year.

According to the Chinese calendar, 2013 was the Year of the Derp. Fuck 2013! And now a touching tribute to some of the people most responsible for killing brain cells last year. Thanks, you dipshits.

"And before you ask - NO!! - you can't sleep with her."

“And before you ask – NO!! – you can’t sleep with her.”

Need A Room – What Can You Offer? (Nassau County)

Hello, I need a room to use. About once/twice a week max. Weekdays from 9am-2pm. About 2-3 hours each time. My GF doesn’t like motels/hotels and are own places are out of the question. House or apartment is fine. Can you help us out??

And before you ask – NO!! – you can’t sleep with her.

Let me know what you can offer and what you need from us to use it.

 

10 search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

  1. meek’s cutoff 2010 drama
  2. freeman dyson project orion
  3. john newcombe tennis instruction LP
  4. tennis for two first video game
  5. jason whitlock article about the sopranos
  6. genetics allow some athletes to dope at will
  7. who is eddie lee sausage?
  8. was virginia tighe reincarnated?
  9. mad as hell dave itzkoff
  10. handsome charlie rose
Afflictor: Thinking now that Megyn Kelly has defeated Black Santa, she has her eyes on a new holiday nemesis.

Afflictor: Thinking now that Megyn Kelly has defeated Black Santa, she’s set her sights on a new holiday nemesis.

  • Names may have some role in determining success.
  • Peter Thiel is, unsurprisingly, opposed to government regulation.
  • Nelson Mandela had treatment denied other South Africans. Is that okay?
  • Nick Bilton points out how the Internet has changed journalism.
  • A brief note from 1914 about a spat.

Cash needed to fill a dream – $20

I have a multi-billion dollar idea that will not wait for anybody.

If you want to help with this, it will cost money – preferably $ 5,000.00, but $20,000.00 will be searched for. The idea is to take cars off the roads, and replace them with a flying car, already thought up by me, and will begin construction of them when the money is set.

This idea will not leave me, as long as I have breath in my body.

If interested, please get back to me, and you will get paid back. $20,000 will be paid back $38,000.00.

'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house…

...not a creature was stirring...

…not a creature was stirring…

Not a creature was stirring, not even a souse.

…not even a louse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care…

In the hope that paparazzi soon would be there.

…in the hopes that the paparazzi soon would be there.

Now Vinny!

Now Vinny!

Now Victor!

Now Victor!

Now Vito!

Now Vito!

Now Sheamus!

Now Sheamus!

Please photograph me.

Please take my photo.

I'm desperate to be famous!

I want to be famous!

I'll protect you, darling.

I’ll protect you, my dear. They won’t get anywhere near you.

Protect me from what? Paps are good for my career.

Stay away from me, dummy, or I’ll smack you with a horseshoe.

I want a reality show and a spacious new palace.

You’ll cost me a reality show and a spacious new palace.

My life is more confusing than the plotline of Malice.

My life’s more confused than the plotline of Malice.

What is the source of your furious behavior?

What is the source of your furious behavior?

I'm insecure about my manhood and need to be a savior.

I’m insecure about my manhood and need to be a savior.

What is the source of your furious behavior?

Perhaps switch to decaf and learn to shut up.

Either way, when this is over, I'm contesting the pre-nup.

Regardless, when this is over, I’ll contest the prenup.

Until then I'll rage...

Until then, I’ll rage…

Until then I'll rage.

…and attack…

...and make scenes.

…and make scenes.

But Happy Christmas to all, even you cocksucking queens!

But Happy Christmas to all, even all you toxic queens.

 

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Happy holidays, Afflictor readers, whatever religion or culture you observe. Unless you think your stupid personal mythology makes you better than someone else. Then you should go scratch your ass with a broken milk bottle. Because none of us is special. I mean, most of us actually deserve a good caning. So let’s tear down the pretenses and egos and statues, and realize that we’re all just sacks of shit. Beautiful sacks of shit, sure, but that’s it. After all, we only believe those nonsense religions because we’re afraid of dying. And we should be. Death is a bastard.

Anyhow: Happy holidays!–Darren

I want to be adopted by a wealthy colombian family (anywhere)

I am a nice guy in my 20s that has fell on some hard times and some criminal problems. i need some help out and i need a new godfamily. please help. i would be a great son or brother or grandson. i love cars, cash and sex.

 

10 search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

  1. the man in the white suit ealing comedy 1951
  2. marilyn chambers interviewed by tom snyder
  3. novels david foster wallace loved
  4. what was carl sagan’s contribution to 2001 a space odyssey?
  5. david bowie on dinah shore show
  6. the hanging of arthur clement day
  7. was michael rockefeller eaten by cannibals?
  8. the ship must be sinking muhammad ali
  9. harold robbins dream merchant
  10. david isay dinosaur gardens moscow texas
Afflictor: Thinking that Phil  Robertson's homophobic remarks forced A&E to find a new patriarch for Duck Dynasty.

Afflictor: Thinking that the controversy over Phil Robertson’s homophobic remarks forced A&E to find a new patriarch for Duck Dynasty.

I'm back, you toxic queens.

I’m back, you toxic queens.

  • I disagree with Malcolm Gladwell’s contention that today’s celebrities behave better because of tabloid culture.
  • I agree with Gladwell’s contention that PED hysteria if rife with hypocrisy.
  • Al Goldstein was ahead of the curve when it came to pornography.
  • Peter Singer points out the moral failings of the Batkid celebration.
  • Google has high hopes (here and here) for its robotics division.
  • Discovering signs of life on other planets may be our death knell.
  • A brief note from 1910 about a frolic.
  • A brief note from 1904 about dynamite.
“It’s kind of embarrassing to me.”

“It’s kind of embarrassing to me.”

Husband Wants Me to do it….

We have not explained the “facts of life” to our young teenage son yet, and my husband says he can’t get involved in doing this. Says I must do it alone. How do I, a middle-aged mother talk to my 13 year old son about sex, masturbation, std’s, pregnancy, birth control, etc? It’s kind of embarrassing to me.

Serena.

“Now, at 19, I have a huge data set.”

“Now, at 19, I have a huge data set.”

I’m selling my sex data (Upper West Side)

Ever since 15 years old, when I lost my virginity, I kept track of every time I’ve had sex (reasons why are another story). I mark down: The date itself including day of the week, the person’s first name, age at the time, my age at the time, the number of times (or days) this is for me, the number of times I’ve done it with this person, whether we used protection/not, and what state it took place in. Obviously, I wouldn’t disclose to you the names but if you wanted a certain characteristic, like their race/where I met them/where THEY’RE from, we could work something out, and I’d replace their name with a letter of the alphabet and corresponding characteristics.

Now, at 19, I have a huge data set, and an interesting one at that. I was thinking someone somewhere could use this in one way or another, and I need some extra cash anyway. I’ll answer any questions you have about the set (after seeing it) as long as I don’t feel they’re too personal. I won’t reveal to you my name either, but I’ll tell you the crucial facts (especially if you’re using it for a personal study of some sort).

We can talk more, if you have any questions. For the record (no pun intended) I don’t include oral sex, anal sex, and any type of sex with females.

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“How is your stress affecting your pet?”

Pets psychic & Spiritual advisor

Do you need help understanding your pet’s behavior? Does your pet have phobias or fears? How is your stress affecting your pet? How is your pet feeling? For the answers to these and any other questions, call me. I connect with the energy of your pet, even when your pet has passed over, and it’s very much the same technique as when I do readings for humans. I have over 30 years experience as a professional psychic, I am clairvoyant, and as I do a reading it’s as if I’m watching a slide slow in my mind. I’ve helped thousands, and I’m here to help you & your pet.

"How is your pet feeling?"

“How is your pet feeling?”


10 search-engine keyphrase searches bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

  1. fahrenheit 451 1966 truffaut film
  2. judith jarvis thomson defense of abortion
  3. ernest callenbach novel ecotopia
  4. cavett on stewart and colbert
  5. the militia in me denis johnson
  6. world’s most expensive cock fight
  7. otto lilienthal flying machines
  8. mitt romney’s campaign strategist article about steroids
  9. iranian airline before the revolution
  10. tom lehrer song about wernher von braun
Afflictor:

Afflictor: Thinking Megyn Kelly will soon be calling police to report a heavyset, African-American male breaking and entering.

This is what I died for.

This is what I died for?

  • No one in the world is being observed more closely than Edward Snowden.
  • David Simon takes aim, angrily, at American income inequality.
  • Robots may eventually need a bill of rights.
  • Andy Greenwald dissects the British anthology series, Black Mirror.
  • Bankruptcy lawyer Kevyn D. Orr must somehow save Detroit.
  • David Remnick explains his role for the Moscow Olympics coverage.
  • Paper might, perhaps, make a comeback because of surveillance.

Here, in no particular order, are this year’s 20 selections. These pieces, which made me think or reconsider my opinions or just delighted me, are limited to ungated material that’s only a click away. (I included work from publications such as the New York Times which allow a certain amount of free articles per month.)

  • The Reality Show” (Mike Jay, Aeon) Brilliant essay that points out that the manifestations of mental illness are heavily influenced by the prevailing culture. In our case: ubiquitous technology.
  • Invisible Child–Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life (Andrea Elliott, New York Times) A tale of two cities in present-day New York told through the story of a talented grade-school girl trying to make it through the hard knocks of class divisions. What’s expressed tacitly is that if the best and brightest homeless children only have a so-so shot at success, those less gifted have almost none. 
  • The Robots Are Here” (Tyler Cowen, Politico Magazine): The best distillation yet of the economist’s ideas about where the technological disruption will lead us as a society. I’m not completely on board with his forecasting, but this article is smart and provocative.
  • In Conversation: Antonin Scalia(Jennifer Senior, New York) Amazing interview with the Supreme Court Justice which reveals him to a stunning, and frightening, extent.
  • Return of the Oppressed (Peter Turchin, Aeon) The father of Cliodynanics forecasts a dark future for humanity thanks to spiraling wealth inequality.
  • Omens (Ross Andersen, Aeon) With a focus on philosopher Nick Bostrom, the writer wonders whether humans will survive into the deep future.
  • Thanksgiving in Mongolia(Ariel Levy, The New Yorker) Heartrending story of a reporter’s loss in a far-flung place is personal journalism at its finest.
  • Blockbuster Video: 1985-2013 (Alex Pappademas, Grantland): A master of the postmortem lays to rest not a person but a way of life which is disappearing brick by brick and mortar by mortar. 
  • The Corporate Mystique” (Judith Shulevitz, The New Republic) A reminder that a female CEO is not a replacement for a women’s movement.
  • The Global Swarm” (P.W. Singer, Foreign Policy) The author considers privacy as drones get smaller, smarter and seemingly unstoppable.
  • The Master” (Marc Fisher, The New Yorker) A profile of a predatory teacher is most interesting as an extreme psychological portrait of the cult mentality.
  • Why the World Faces Climate Chaos” (Martin Wolf, Financial Times) An attempt to understand why we cling to systems that doom us, that could make us the new dinosaurs.
  • The Hollywood Fast Life of Stalker Sarah” (Molly Knight, New York Times Magazine) Thoughtful article about celebrity in our age of decentralized media, in which fame has entered its long-tail phase, seemingly available to everyone and worth less than ever. 
  • Academy Fight Song(Thomas Frank, The Baffler) The author plays the role of designated mourner for common sense in U.S. higher education, which costs more now and returns less.
  • The Wastefulness of Automation(Frances Coppola, Pieria) A smart consideration of the disconnect of free-market societies that are also highly automated ones.

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"Yes, you know what I'm talking about."

“Yes, you know what I’m talking about.”

I Need to make Holiday cash and then Some – $25000 (bklyn, manhatten)

If you have a way for me to either earn cash or make cash weather it be something you can not do your self and need help with or need a stranger to do, or any other way for there are tons of people out there with good tips who know where the golden goose hides their eggs weather it be in cash or product.

if your in need of cash for the holidays as i am email me back and lets talk. if it’s doable your cut in as full partner.

yes, you know what i’m talking about.

Get back to me. i’m discreet, a man of my word, and please no james bond type shit. lets be realisitic. the right info can be a nice pay day for you and me alike.

christmas will be here in 2 weeks. please get back to me if you have a way for me to make cash–the more the better.

happy holidays.

"Happy holidays."

“Happy holidays.”

I’m going to be doing the “Great 2013 Nonfiction Pieces Online For Free” list either late tonight or more likely tomorrow. Here are the year-end lists from the last two years.

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Great 2012 Nonfiction Pieces Online For Free

 

A bunch of my favorite articles from 2012. (A couple of pieces from December 2011 are included since I do these lists before the absolute end of the year.) All ungated and free.

  • Pedestrian Mania” (Brian Phillips, Grantland): Beautiful piece about world-famous 1870s long-distance walking champion Edward Payson Weston, subject of the book, A Man in a Hurry.
  • Brains Plus Brawn” (Daniel Lieberman, Edge) Incredibly fun article about endurance, which points out, among many other things, that as quick as Usain Bolt may seem, your average sheep or goat can run twice as fast.
  • A New Birth of Reason” (Susan Jacoby, The American Scholar): Great essay about Robert Ingersoll, the largely forgotten secularist who was a major force in 19th-century America, taken from the writer’s forthcoming book, The Great Agnostic.
  • Prospects of a Keynesian Utopia,” (John Quiggin, Aeon): Will a roboticized society with 15-hour workweeks be a dream come true–or something else?
  • One’s a Crowd” (Eric Kleinberg, The New York Times): Great Op-Ed piece about the increasing number of people living alone.
  • How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” (Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, The New York Times): A deep and penetrating explanation of the complicated forces at play in job outsourcing.
  • The Power of Habit“ (Charles Duhigg, Slate): An excerpt from the author’s bestseller of the same name which explains how Pepsodent became omnipresent.
  • We’re Underestimating the Risk of Extinction” (Ross Andersen, The Atlantic): I didn’t necessarily agree with the premise (or conclusions) of this interview with philosopher Nick Bostrom, but I enjoyed its intelligence immensely.
  • Hustling the Cloud” (Steven Boone, Capital New York): Wonderful piece about a bleary-eyed, middle-of-the-night search for free Wi-Fi–and anything else that would seem to make sense–in a time of dire economic straits.
  • Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World” (Wil S. Hylton, The New York Times Magazine): Fascinating examination of the titular biologist, who wants to make breathing bots that will cure the world’s ills.
  • The Machine and the Ghost” (Christine Rosen, The New Republic): The author riffs on how the rise of smart, quantified gizmos and cities necessitates a new “morality of things.”

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Great 2011 Nonfiction Pieces Online For Free

A bunch of great articles from this year that made me rethink assertions, informed me or entertained me. All available for free.

  • Getting Bin Laden” (Nicholas Schmidle, New Yorker): The best long-form journalism of the new century. Perfect writing and editing. Will be read with equal fascination 50 years from now.
  • The Movie Set That Ate Itself,” (Michael Idov, GQ): Intrepid reporter with a deadpan sensibility ventures onto the most insane movie set ever.
  • Better, Faster. Stronger“ (Rebecca Mead, New Yorker): Wicked portrait of a Silicon Valley self-help guru. Reading this piece is a good way to learn how to write profiles.
  • ‘”The Elusive Big Idea” (Neal Gabler, New York Times): I don’t agree with most of the assertions of this essay, but it’s deeply intelligent and provocative.
  • Douglas Rushkoff” (Peggy Nelson, HiLowbrow.com): Deep and probing interview with the media ecologist.
  • Who Invented The Seven-Game Series?“ (Michael Weinreb, Grantland): Reporter asks simple question others gloss over, finds interesting historical and analytical info.
  • Zell to L.A. Times: Drop Dead” (Laurie Winer, L.A. Review of Books): Great writing about Sam Zell and the painful decline of the Los Angeles Times.
  • Show the Monster” (Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker): Brilliant Guillermo del Toro portrait for fans of film or great writing.
  • The Man Who Inspired Jobs” (Christopher Bonanos, The New York Times): Polaroid founder Edwin H. Land was oddly omitted from Steve Jobs’ obits, but this lucid, insightful essay remedied that oversight. Better yet: Bonanos is apparently working on a book about Polaroid.
  • All the Angry People“ (George Packer, The New Yorker): The most revealing reporting yet about the genesis and meaning of Occupy Wall Street.

My AC adapter conked out. (Fuck you, Nikola Tesla.) Had to go to three stores before I could find the right one. (Fuck you, Best Buy.) I’ll put up some posts momentarily.–Darren

I AM SELLING MY 2 KIDNEY STONES I PASSED LAST YEAR – $500 (NEW YORK)

I HAD 2 KIDNEY STONES THAT I PASSED LAST YEAR.

THIS IS FOR PEOPLE WHO COLLECT STRANGE THINGS.

I HAVE HOSPITAL PAPER WORK ON THEM, THEY ARE AUTHENTIC WITH PAPER WORK.

 

10 search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

  1. what is the meaning of the 1976 film the man who fell to earth?
  2. did guglielmo marconi contact martians?
  3. what famous people were cannibals?
  4. how is new york such a green city?
  5. tyler cowen article about texas
  6. muhammad ali and oriana fallaci
  7. filip bondy boxing banned in ny
  8. disneyland with the death penalty
  9. mia farrow and maharishi mahesh yogi
  10. wolf attacks in russia

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