Amazon wants me to buy a Kindle. Every time I check my email, there's a message from Amazon extolling the virtues of the Kindle. Unfortunately, for them, besides not having the moolah, I have no need for such an item...but I'm not entirely against the existence of the Kindle (or the Barnes & Noble Nook or any other e-reading device ( Read more... )

Except for the one or two times when I'd thought ahead and taken the day off, this is the first time in a long time that I haven't had to work on Black Friday. Fortunately I've never had to be there in the morning for the stupid 6am opening time. That'd be the day. I mean, I can see people lining up early outside of Best Buy or Macy's or even ( Read more... )

Should there ever be a live action episode of King of the Hill (not that I would encourage such a thing because it probably wouldn't work), I nominate Rainn Wilson for the part of Hank Hill.


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If the first few moments of the documentary Young @ Heart don't make you smile even a little bit, then I don't think I want to know you. I mean really, if you can't crack a grin at a 92 year old woman singing The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" backed by a chorus of other elderly folks, then you must have problems. See a shrink. But before ( Read more... )