2.013 This space I can imagine empty, but I cannot imagine the thing without the space.

2.024 Substance is what subsists independently of what is the case.

2.03 In a state of affairs objects fit into one another like the links of a chain.

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We remain profoundly uninterested in the news this week. Rupert’s news channel faking union-thug footage? Fox bites Man. Mike Huckabee faking Obama’s past? That’s sooo 2009. Charlie Sheen faking reality? Even Franco is more entertaining.

So please enjoy some mood music while we wait for the world to get its ass in gear. And remember: Don’t be careful out there. We’re dying for fresh material.

[via Nerdist]

Ewalda, a frequent commenter, posted this message on May 11, 2009. It would be his last. Four days later, he died “unexpectedly” in a hospital, at age 57.

We didn’t learn about it until Monday.

It’s not something we would have learned about, had not some of us known his real name, and somebody thought to Google it. It’s not something you think about. We’re all friends here, but we’re masked by aliases and separated by geography. Our own friends and family may not know we participate, and so may not know — or even know how — to tell us when tragedy strikes. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re gone.

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We understand that there are Important Things going on in the world — Important Things that, were we a Responsible Editorialist, we would Responsibly Editorialize about. Heaven knows that, lacking our Responsible Editorial, you wouldn’t know what the hell to think.

But in contemplating said Important Things, we discovered that we have absolutely nothing to say, Responsibly or otherwise. Unions Good, Qaddafi Bad, Charlie Sheen Crazy. When’s lunch?

So, in lieu of words that would make the Mighty tremble and the Humble weep with joy, we choose instead to present a silly video about a rocket launch that nobody cares about. Because, in the end, it fills 300 vertical pixels of space, and that’s all that really matters.

Making the news in Sandy Eggo — and conveniently timed to the Oscar nomination for the very enjoyable documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” — is this purported Banksy work that turned up on the wall overnight Friday at the Bull Taco shop in Oceanside, north of town.

Banksy himself has yet to authenticate it — apparently there’s a standard procedure for such things — and connoisseurs doubt its authenticity. But that’s what’s amusing about it: One word from the Master is the difference between a Valuable Work of Art, and, y’know, mindless vandalism.

Banksy or Fakesy in Oceanside? [Carlsbad Crawl]

Not a Banksy [Ape Flavored/Flickr]

Photo: Banksy in Oceanside [Hypebeast]

Well, now, here’s an intriguing headline!

Even GOP activists are turning against Sarah Palin

Let’s click through and taste the juicy goodness inside:

At a recent gathering in South Carolina, the site of a crucial early presidential primary next year, party activists said the former Alaska governor didn’t have the experience, the knowledge of issues or the ability to get beyond folksy slang and bumper-sticker generalities that they think is needed to win and govern.

Whoa, that’s harsh. The GOP Activists are sounding like — well, like Democrats. And it took them only thirty months to see the obvious! Who says America’s best years aren’t still ahead of us?

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People magazine first observed Abe Vigoda’s passing in 1982 — which means that he’s spent nearly a third of his life in the Mark Twain Twilight Zone. (Twain himself only outlived the exaggeration by thirteen years.) The other two-thirds began on this day in 1921.