Sometimes the universe just aligns, you know? Take, for instance, a week or so ago when my Facebook friend Susan Yee, an amazingly talented wedding photographer, updated her status and asked, "Does anybody in town cook?"

Oh, Hell Yeah.

Turns out Susan wants to branch out into food photography--not ju… Read full post »

I've been sitting on very itchy hands for the past ten days or so, wanting desperately to share emails we've been getting from our CEO. I really wanted to post them for Jane Smithie's awesome idea, Good New Sunday.

Today, the wall between "intranet" and "internet" officially came down, and I… Read full post »

Yawn.

Another day, another study purporting to tell us that a modern miracle of engineering designed to support a human body part could actually be...dangerous.

Shhh....don't look now, but Things You Put On Your Body Are Trying To Harm You.

Again.

I am speaking, of course, of a recen… Read full post »

I don't have the energy to liveblog, but let's keep running comments going for anybody who wants to say OMG WTF WTG, OK?

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^{Image: http://www.motivelab.com/wp-content/postimages/who-would-jesus-shoot.jpg} 

Sometimes, you know, you're just cruising along as the day goes by, sitting next to your boss in a long, dry meeting, trying to see if there are any exit polls coming out of Massachussets, and you stumb… Read full post »

This is a substantially revised re-post of something I originally wrote in 2003. The last time I posted it here (270 years ago in OS terms) it was in jest. This time around, it's in earnest. If you read it the first time around, thanks and never mind...

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Boys, you may just want to click out of this post right now. It's gonna get bloody graphic. And I don't mean "bloody" in the British sense of the word.

So here's the thing, girlfriends.

I, like many of you, grew up reading Are You There God?… Read full post »

Verbal went to San Francisco for the weekeend, and all you got was this lousy photo post...

The angelic Sandra Stephens, hostess extraordinaire

Verbal, Lonnie Lazar, and Sandra about to descend on a tree-lighting party at a very, very cool home...

Just SOME of the… Read full post »

^{A Receipt for Your Own Pagan Baby: Image Source "To The Manner Born"}

Pagan Babies 

There aren't a lot of warm, fuzzy, fond memories of the 8 years I spent in Catholic school clanging around in my head. (Oh, sure, that's where I learned all the fundamentals of the… Read full post »

Aw. A brother and sister holding hands by the beach. Isn't that adorable?

It was never like that picture with you and me, Bro. 

We didn't have the kind of brother-sister relationship you see on TV. We didn't borrow our script from the Brady Bunch or Ei… Read full post »

Y'ever wonder what happened to some of those brilliant, quirky people you've met in your life? Joe Camhi is one of those guys for me.

The phrase "fish out of water" was more or less invented for this guy from New York who crash-landed in the… Read full post »

_{Photo Source}

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

OK that's the starting siren so the crowd's gonna start moving at kind of a lurchy herky-jerky semi-walk-hop toward the starting line...cellphone set to stopwatch...

I know I can do this one faster than the one two weeks ago OUCH thanks fo… Read full post »

Pumpkin Gnocchi with Melted Leeks, Dill, and Gruyere  

Image: http://mydailypumpkinrecipe.blogspot.com/2008/12/pumpkin-gnocchi.html

Today's The Great Pumpkin Cook-Off at work. I figured there'd be dozens of pies and cakes and breads and cookies, so I decided I'd tak… Read full post »

Paid $2,999; Sacrifice only $995!

Really? You paid that much for...that?

Were you off your antipsychotics at the time?

Dear delusional (and frequently illiterate) Craigslisters,

I don't care how much you originally paid for the old, ugly, beaten-up, worn, frayed, crac… Read full post »

^{Image: www.liontaming.com. Really.}

Running! Jumping! Boot Camp! Long-distance bicycling! Extreme weightlifting! Wall climbing!  Surfing! Sailing! Volleyball! Bungee jumping!  Paintball! Competitive log splitting! Elk wrestling!

Dear god.

Do single people my age rea… Read full post »

 

R.I.P.

Gourmet Magazine, 1941-2009

Fare thee well, Gourmet.

Up until now, I've managed to observe the implosion of magazine after magazine (even though some of them were old favorites) with a certain cool, detached sense of inevitability.

It was simply a given that th/… Read full post »

^{The fireplace isn't quite this nice...}

After spending the last six to eight weeks receiving daily emails about condos I can actually afford (picture small, dark, and depressing, in a scary section of town) and even spending an entire brutally hot Saturday fruitlessl… Read full post »

I listened to his new guitar suite last night. Saw he’d posted the music on Facebook and thought, oh my god, he’s composing again. Clicked in. Settled back. Closed my eyes. Let the music carry me.

• Movement 1
• Movement 2
• Movement 3
• Movement 4

In those… Read full post »

• To make peacocks jealous.
• They just haven't been feeling like themselves lately and they wanted to spice it up a bit.
• They have an unholy, self-destructive attraction to fire; this makes them feel closer to it. 
• They secretly want to be butterflies.
• They hope to bl/
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 ^{Hello Goodbye: I'm #1! I'm #1! I'm #1!}

OK, you're just going to have to trust me when I say that's me up there, highlighted in a rather inexplicable shade of pinkish-salmon. Me. That's my score. 

Yeah, I know, it doesn't say Verbal Remedy, it says Henway. That's… Read full post »

• A kitchen without a dishwasher is like a car without brakes.

• Everything looks better when you wash and dry on the Delicate cycle.

• The average American woman owns 28 lipsticks* and actually actually uses two.

• Dog's got bad breath? He's hoarding a body somewhere. (As I found
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Remember when I told ya the Iz-Man was doing something really nutty and running across England, 30 miles per day?

He just finished the 33rd run.

And ended up running through this town.

Yes, it's a real place.

 :-)

I'm so depressed at the state of this nation, I… Read full post »

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A health care reform demonstration landed one man in the emergency room after part of his pinky finger was bitten off during a heated argument in Ventura County. 

Sheriff's Capt. Frank O'Hanlon says about 100 peo… Read full post »