If you can figure out what this list is, maybe you will figure out why it is amusing.

1. A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
2. New York
3. Downtown 81
4. Strapped
5. Ghostbusters 2
6. Contempt
7. Grey Gardens
8. Wild Style
9. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
10. L'Avventura
11. Gerry
12. Good Times: Season 5
13. T-Rex: Born to Boogie: Special Edition
14. Michael Moore's The Awful Truth: Season 2
15. Hiroshima Mon Amour
16. Night Porter
17. Hell House
18. Blow Up
19. Cleo from 5 to 7
20. Jay-Z: Fade to Black
21. Alphaville
22. Breathless
23. Underground
24. Dancer in the Dark
25. Band of Outsiders

"I say, Lu! I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I see now you were right all along. Do come out. Make it Pax."

As much as I'd like to comment on Andres's description of Rob Levin's douchebaggery, I am much too busy admiring the GNU paxutils roadmap.

They say that teamwork is about sacrificing one's individuality. What team is responsible for the verbatim republishing of this poem?

THESE LACUSTRINE CITIES

These lacustrine cities grew out of loathing
Into something forgetful, although angry with history.
They are the product of an idea: that man is horrible, for instance,
Though this is only one example.

They emerged until a tower
Controlled the sky, and with artifice dipped back
Into the past for swans and tapering branches,
Burning, until all that hate was transformed into useless love.

Then you are left with an idea of yourself
And the feeling of ascending emptiness of the afternoon
Which must be charged to the embarrassment of others
Who fly by you like beacons.

The night is a sentinel.
Much of your time has been occupied by creative game
Until now, but we have all-inclusive plans for you.
We had thought, for instance, of sending you to the middle of the desert,

To a violent sea, or of having the closeness of the others be air
To you, pressing you back into a startled dream
As sea-breezes greet a child's face.
But the past is already here, and you are nursing some private project.

The worst is not over, yet I know
You will be happy here. Because of the logic
Of your situation, which is something no climate can outsmart.
Tender and insouciant by turns, you see

You have built a mountain of something,
Thoughtfully pouring all your energy into this single monument,
Whose wind is desire starching a petal,
Whose disappointment broke into a rainbow of tears.

… imitating languagehat imitating wood s lot, which possibly copied from the New York Times.

Blog this poem yourself today. It won't be annoying at all.