Chuck Palahniuk earns the high honor of "Worst Book I Have Ever Made it All the Way Through in the History of Reading" with his 2009 release, PygmyI cannot believe for the life of me that I made it all the way through the book, but a combination of my OCD completism and my stubbornness at investing that amount of time in reading a book just to have ( Read more... )

I just received one of those chain emails about the military and patriotism and what-not.

The opening before the email was:
A True Patriot Will Pass This On. A Foreigner In This Country Might Not.Neither of my parents was born in this country. None of their brothers or sister or their parents were. None of my cousins older than I am - and a ( Read more... )

Bea Arthur died of cancer at age 86.

She was my very favorite doll! my favorite Golden Girl.

Saturday, August 10, 2003:America is the land of free speech ( Read more... )

. . .and sometimes you get more. Tonight, I went to Quiznos to pick up dinner. Oh the tremedous hassle that was! I asked the guy (there were 2 working there, neither of whom spoke much English. I had to place my order at the one with more English, the one with less English gestured) for the Mesquite Chicken and Bacon sandwich, large. I clearly ( Read more... )