You may not have heard yet if you listen to the Liberal Media™  instead of Fox News, but This Great Nation™ is seriously threatened by at least three different groups of peop… Read full post »

^{FraidyKat* image brazenly cached from publicly available images at www.icanhazcheezburger.com. Now it will be here, too. Forever. Muahahahahahahahaha!}

Omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod, y'all!

Did you hear?! Did you hear!? 100 million Facebook users' details wer/… Read full post »

Attention, All Ye Great And Mighty NovelSnobs:

Let me begin with praise.

• I admire the fact that you made it all the way through Infinite Jest, including all 100+ pages of endnotes.
• I am humbled that you’ve read every last word of Ulysses. (I/
… Read full post »

With proactive apologies to stellaa, inspired by a conversation with Grandma, and because a friend has recently started a spreadsheet that tracks every single watt of electricty consumed by every single appliance/device in the house...

^{The Kill-A-Watt: So You'll Know How Much Keepi}… Read full post »

^{All Photos: Susan Yee, En Pointe Photography}

Last Wednesday after work, I whipped up a Southwestern feast for a few friends. Susan the photographer was along for the ride again, as were two native Texans with big appetites.

One of the Texans had, with a bit of probing,… 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 »

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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 »

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 »

Attention, Eddie Izzard fans...

As if we didn't already have a thousand and one reasons to adore our favorite executive transvestite, standup comdian, actor, genius, and all around sexy bloke, I thought you'd like to know the man is currently doing something COMPLETELY INSANE, mindboggling,&nbs… Read full post »

^{Image: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/}

So, yawannaknow what it takes for me to bother to figure out how to unfriend somebody on Facebook?

It ain't easy.

No, kittens, it's OK. Feel free to repeat FOX News talking points and blather on about socialism and commies and how this country's turnin… Read full post »

Craigslist.

Never have so many typed so badly and used spellcheck so infrequently.

Honestly, cats and kittens: There's so much wrong with the "For Sale" ads (let's not even talk about "For Rent" right now), it's a bloody miracle buyers or sellers ever actually manage to find each other at all.… Read full post »

Dear Pope Ben (may I call you Ben? I'm not one much for titles; hope you understand),

So you've finally finished your long-awaited encyclical on "Charity in Truth," mostly about global economic issues, which is being characterized (by the New York Times, at least) as a call for a/… Read full post »

^{The recently revealed Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Obesity Map. Congratulations, my fellow Americans: We are all officially fatter than we've ever been. Any resemblance to the 2008 Electoral Map is pure coincidence...or is it? See below. Meanwhile, go play with a fascinat}… Read full post »

Herr Ball just did his inaugural OS blog about how he brought the… Read full post »

I've given it seven tries already. Seven hours of life. Seven weeks. Seven giant glasses of wine (give or take). Seven attempts to force myself to care.

I think it's probably time to admit it: I don't love The Fashion Show. I don't even like it all that/… Read full post »

I never know if I'm ahead of the curve with silly internet memes or tragically behind, but the Literal Music Video thing has had me in stitches of late. It's partially due to the fact that yes, I came of age in the dawn of the music video age, and the… Read full post »

^{Faces You Will Not See In The New Buffy Movie (Photo: eonline.com)}

I'll get the confession out of the way early: I completely missed out on Buffy the Vampire Slayer the first time around. It was probably the title. Just sounded stupid. Couldn't possibly be anything I'd enjoy. Sure, I/… Read full post »

Can You Believe The Sundance Release Lag?

I saw eight films at Sundance in January 2008 (including the depressingly prescient I.O.U.S.A, which presaged our current state of economic collapse by a whopping six months). I'd attempted to see twelve. That r/… Read full post »

I've written before about loving somebody with alcoholism. The following bits and pieces were written in the last days of that relationship. We'd been together three years, give or take.

He drank for a grand total of 62 days in those three years. 

He went to re… Read full post »

No. Way.

No. No. Just No. This has got to be a mistake.

That report says: Natasha Richardson was reported to be "fine at first" after she hit her head in a skiing accident, but the 45-year-old actress' health began to deteriorate within an hour.

Now sources close to… Read full post »