Watching Portlandia, it seems to me that Portland is the Canada of Seattle. (I wonder what the Canada of Portland is...)

"He is a man who craves attention and wants to be famous," the newscasters intone over a montage of headshots and Youtube videos. "We're going to make him pay for all of the time and effort that he wasted at the taxpayers' expense," says the sheriff as we watch the homemade UFO float over trees and power lines. And millions of Americans sit at ( Read more... )

Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

...According to the report, staring blankly at luminescent rectangles is an increasingly central part of modern life. At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any number of business-related tasks, while entertainment rectangles-larger and louder and ( Read more... )

Here is what British people in 1970 thought life would be like in.....THE FUTURE (by which I mean, 1980):

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I had no idea that in.....THE FUTURE (1980), there would be so many women wearing purple wigs and chrome underwear. Hott.

Don't act. Don't assume. Don't presume. Don't fake. Just be yourself. You know how to do that, don't you?

So this morning I found out that "Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it" is actually a quote from the 19th century historian Henry Thomas Buckle, and not a translation of an obscure Chinese proverb as I initially assumed. (Well, I did originally see it in a fortune cookie...) I think it would make a terrific one-liner for David ( Read more... )

"You know, Wong is the most common last name in the world. And Mohammed is the most common first name.

"...There are no Mohammed Wongs, though."

Creatively dubbed G.I. Joe PSAs. My favorite is the reggae one.

So I was checking some books out at Olin when the guy behind me in line starts chatting with the girl behind the circulation desk...she was wearing a shirt that said "BEACH SURVIVOR '81-'82" and he asked, "which beach?" and she replied, "Actually, I wasn't even alive at the time, so I don't know ( Read more... )

So I'm at home for Christmas, using my sister's AOL account to get online. Since everyone else has work today, I'm stuck at home watching cable. They get different stations here...watching Spanish-language soap operas on Univision is muy surrealista. ^_^ It's been a long time since I've studied Spanish, so I can only catch every fourth word or ( Read more... )