What the hell is going on around here, the great tonic draught of '09? When I was picking up a few necessities at the Meijer last night, I bought 6 bottles of tonic. There was 3 dozen left on the shelf. We went back today to get the real grocery shopping done and when I walked past the tonic shelf? You guessed it, absolutely none to be found ( Read more... )

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It's a funny video to watch and it's readily apparent that the cat is not being hurt and is, in fact, enjoying the attention quite a great deal -- watch her do her nub-sharpening routine on his knee whenever he stops. It's adorable! What's less adorable is that, after trying this out on lady-curmudgeon's cat (Jazz, the oldest of the pair) I found that the cat ( Read more... )

Duda Farm Fresh Foods has engineered celery stalks into edible straws for your Bloody Mary. I am something of a heretic -- such a surprise, right? -- because when I'm mixing at home I generally forgo the customary celery stalk garnish in my Bloody Mary. Hey, I may be dating but I'm still living a bachelor life, what use is celery to me outside of ( Read more... )

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Has anybody else seen this shit? Or this?

Why am I just finding out about this now, almost a year after this got started? Why do I see echos of Kelo -v- City of New London in this? Where's the OUTRAGE and the news coverage? Why is the possible (later mostly-debunked) killer of Jon Benet getting press coverage while this sort of douchery is ( Read more... )

At 4:55 this morning I woke up from a nightmare, drenched in sweat, absolutely convinced that my employer had dismissed me due to a physical altercation with an employee who held a black belt in karate (I dunno either, but it made sense at the time). After I got a glass of water and dropped my heart rate back down into the double digits I laid in ( Read more... )

I just got a neat little missive in the mail today from the fine folks at CitiBank. It came in one of those envelopes where you tear off the tab on the side, grab the enclosed letter and pull it out. I wasn't sure why I'd gotten one from CitiBank (for some reason I always think of the letter that Korben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis) gets via ( Read more... )

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"Granny's Diaperz r001!"

I shit you not -- that's actually on my whiteboard, complete with the l33t one and zeros. The insult to my injury is that I only noticed it tonight in passing. But I know who the responsible party is and exactly when it was written, oh yes.

Roho, I ought to come after you with a few hundred water balloons when January rolls ( Read more... )