A woman who was an inspiration to me died last night. I am having intermittent crying jags. The world is a better place because she was in it, and is a poorer place for her loss.

I really just don't know what else to say.

Am I a terrible person because I'm not paralytically crushed by the untimely demise of Tim Russert? I mean, I'm sad in the sense that it's horrible he died so young, and he seemed like a good person, and it's sad for his family and friends and everything. But I certainly don't think he was OMGZ TEH BESTEST JOURNALIST EVAR! Do I think he was ( Read more... )

Thank you, Tom Brady, for helping me get over my lingering Giants resentment for Super Bowl XV. For the first time in 17 years, I am able to say GO GIANTS WOOOOOOOOOOOO! IN YO PRETTY BOY FACE!

When I was a very little girl, there was a bakery down the street from my house where my mother and I would go and buy cookies. (It was in an old house right next to Panos, if that means anything to anyone reading this.) I am suddenly craving their pumpkin cookies. It's been more than 20 years since the place closed, and I can still taste them ( Read more... )

Enjoy the new book about the single most important publication in teen girl history. Sassy changed their lives? It changed mine, too. I'm sure I've written about Sassy on here before at some point, so I won't babble for too long. But I was weird in middle school. Sassy taught me that it was cool to be weird. And even if that mentality has ( Read more... )

I recently watched the whole second season of Robot Chicken. Other than a brief "You suck, Scott Norwood!" joke (which made me bust out laughing), this was the best thing in it:

casa di pizza was the pizza place a block away from my house. it's the best pizza in the world. no, seriously. sometimes i dream about it. when i go back to buffalo, it's often motivated more by the thought of eating casa di pizza than it is seeing my relatives. the pepperoni is toasted just so. the sauce has just the right amount of ( Read more... )

tsarin asks about ignignot. ignignot is a mooninite. the mooninites are characters on aqua teen hunger force. the other mooninite's name is ur. ignignot is more fun to say.

bugboy3001 wants to know about beef on weck, and i am reminded that i have two roast beef-related interests, which may seem kind of weird. beef on weck is a western new york specialty. ( Read more... )

i am listening to million you never made. it smells like stale cloves in allentown.

i somehow managed to stumble upon the master list for all of the manhattan political contributions. some fun ones ( Read more... )