I'm only halfway through decoupaging my laundry room door, but I decided to start researching two new projects ( Read more... )

You know how sex offenders have to stay so many feet away from places where children gather?

There should be a similar law that Carlos Mencia promos can't be played within 15 seconds of any other show.

(-) Is it a bad sign if you finish your exam and then call a classmate in Tucson to ask if there were indeed only two questions on the disorganized, scatterbrained, 13-page mid-term your proctor handed you?

PS Does anyone else want to tell Michigan and Florida to suck it? NPR and The Week are all abuzz about re-running primaries in those ( Read more... )

My guidebook has this "helpful" table about the freakin' impossible hours Florentines keep. I love that this table is supposed to clear things up, but really, it only confuses me more.

I am declaring Firenze the City of Special Snowflakes.


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I do not care that, in a recent Wisconsin speech, Barack Obama used phrases similar to those of his close friend Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. I do not care that they both hired adviser David Axelrod. I do not think that either man was propped up by a spin machine. I do not think the use of the word plagiarism is warranted in the slightest ( Read more... )

Ace book detective LaGizma has already uncovered three books from 2006 with nearly identical covers.

Now, I present the latest all-too-identicial book covers. The cynic in me wonders if Doubleday (publisher of the Jan 2008 Delinsky book) is trying to pick up on some of Picoult's best-seller shine.


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I hate the Eagles. I always have. The two things I hate most in the world are (1) the song "American Pie" and (2) everything ever performed by the Eagles, and most of all, "Hotel California." The MTV Unplugged version came out during a high school summer when I was repainting my parents' fence and helping build a porch. WHJY played that damn ( Read more... )

I was really pissed off when Congress stopped working on universal healthcare and got more involved in healthcare for Terri. (Go read that post. It's a Daily Show transcript with Senior Ethicist Stephen Colbert.)

Now, thanks to xterminal, I've been obsessively reading about Richard Cohen's insane beliefs and actions as a "repaired" gay (he, too, was on ( Read more... )

Cindy Sheehan annoys the hell out of me, for two main reasons. First, there are a lot better ways to affect change than throwing a big tantrum on the President's lawn. Second, you don't speak for all parents of military members, and you need to remember that and respect the opposing views. I'm gonna throw in a third--we have no idea if Casey ( Read more... )

Given that Jeff saw the movie Die Hard over 200 times between 1988 and 1999 (and then discovered Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and instead annoyed everyone by watching that all the time for the next half decade), I should probably let him post this find, but I'm going to do my own take on it. Jeff, your challenge is to jump on your soapbox and ( Read more... )