I spent a few minutes easing into the day by reading MyLifeIsAverage and saw where someone posted about having found something remarkable on Google Maps. Sure enough, look what I found:


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If you ever send photos to a magazine for publication, for the love of all that is good and holy please• make sure the photo isn't blurry ( Read more... )

So I was listening to NPR on the way to work this morning when one of the hosts did a commercial. You know, the kind where the host/DJ loosely reads off a cue card promoting a product or service. It was a commercial for Mattress Giant or a retailer with a similar name ( Read more... )

Local Woman Makes Discovery -- Well After Everyone ElseDALLAS -- Local woman Taphophile, 34, had a life-changing discovery last night. It seems as though when she scuffed her shoes, she either wore them anyway or threw them away. "I buy cheap shoes," she explained, "so it doesn't matter if they only last a year. I think I get my money's worth out ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at my desk at work and have on a streaming New Wave radio station. And Taco's cover of "Puttin' on the Ritz" is playing. Now, who else has had this song comically ruined by the movie "Young Frankenstein"? Along such lines, who else can no longer watch "Bride of Frankenstein" without giggling unmercifully thinking of Gene Hackman and ( Read more... )

Nice when dry, not so much when wet:

• coffee grounds
  
• hair
  
• sheets
  
• animals
  
• socks
  
• glasses
  
• kleenexes
  

Tell me this: Did one of your grandfathers have one of those hard leather glasses cases with the clip on the back, perfect for keeping in a front shirt pocket? What about the wooden duck whose upper body lifted off only to reveal a green felt lining and lots of spare pocket change and maybe a pair of cufflinks ( Read more... )

Bright and cruelest sun,
Why doth thou mock my weary
head? Go, leave me be.

Why is the store called "Condoms To Go"? Seems redundant to me. Isn't it a given that you aren't allowed to use them in the stores?

So I lunched with Christopher Lowell again today. He kept trying to talk to me about how to make the outside of my home more appealing, and I kept telling him that I am a renter and that the outside looks pretty good to me, anyway. That Christopher, he never listens to me.