Am I the only one who thinks Commanding General of the Multi-National force in Iraq General David Petraeus shares more than a passing likeness with Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey? The chin. The cheekbones. The overall facial structure. The witty sense of humor (i.e, Wayne’s World; belief that we can win in Iraq).

Edging out Austin, TX bands I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness and …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Springfield, Missouri quartet Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin has emerged as this year’s winner of SXSW’s most ridiculous AND uncomfortably long band name. Destined to never fit onto a venue’s marquee (at least without using “5″s as “S”s), or become a catchy acronym (SSLYBY…nope, I got nothing. But I guess you can spell their acronym in a calculator: 551484. SWEET HUH.), the band is slugging it out, confounding bloggers with their vaguely political name and early ’90s college rock throwback sound. But if you’re like me and never got over In The Aeroplane Over the Sea and still light up at the mention of Archers of Loaf, then your hornrimmed glasses will fog up with delight/mouthbreathing.

Here’s a good SSLYBY/551484 sampler:

There, and now you love them.
Still, I’d rather listen to NPR’s David Sedaris yammer on about pissing into a cup. God that’s depressing.

Tour dates (shamelessly lifted from Filer’s site) after the jump. (more…)

Seriously. Having to sit here all day and approve comments on the David Mortari post (of which there are almost 100) is making me feel physically ill. Shit like:

“I am posting this to give David Mortari That I live very close to where his Mother lives. If he lives there I will find him at some point and I will let him know what it is like to be defenseless”

“i hope this faggot gets thrown off the cliff and hear him scream for his life”

“I’d grab your testicles and castrate them right then and there. I then make a bowl of spaghetti and feed your raisin size balls to your mother because she is worthless for raising a coward with an unusually small scrotum.”

Like I said yesterday, funny that all these fucking people are coming out of the woodwork in defense of dogs, when millions of them each year are euthanized right here in our country for reason other than apathy and laziness. How about the thousands of other dogs used each year for Animal Testing for companies such as Iams? Or how about the dozens of countries who eat dogs as meat?

Or for Fur?

If you’re that pissed off about this video why don’t you do the following:

1. Go to the Humane Society and adopt all the dogs, who will otherwise be euthanized.
2. Go Vegetarian immediately.
3. Vote Democrat.
4. GTFO off the internet for a couple hours. Thanks!