Archive for August, 2009

Getting the hang of this internet thing »

Is Glenn Beck in bed with Big Frosty? »

Earlier today I posted this Sarah Palin tribute video over at Indecision, and yes I watched the whole thing, sober, before breakfast, because that’s just the kind of dedication I bring to my job. Something about the video seemed strange yet familiar, aside from Sarah Palin talking, but I couldn’t put my finger on it [...]

Early symptoms »

I have reached that precarious place, the edge of sickness, the lip of the abyss where wheezing and pain await. It is, of course, the worst possible time for this to happen: the next three weeks involve several important deadlines, visiting relatives, two out-of-state trips, and a writing project that isn’t writing itself. Not to [...]

That list of people I’d like to punch in a bar »

Zach Braff
I have an intense, visceral aversion to this man. Perhaps it is his contrivedly-impish facial expressions, or his over-gelled faux-floppy hair, or the accumulation of consonants at the ends of his names. Perhaps it is the fact that he made it impossible for me to listen to that Shins record after it had served [...]