“Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” - George W Bush

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Goth panel:
TNH on HP Lovecraft: "A Yankee xenophobe with a tolerably good prose style is menaced and then overcome by seafood."

Infodump panel:
TNH on summaries: "Nouns are hard to metabolize."

Mary Sue panel:
Kim Kindya on Masterharper Robinton: "He's become the Fonzie of Pern." (She later explained that bishonen is Japanese for "Orlando Bloom ( Read more... )

“Hey, remember that movie, The Frisco Kid? They should’ve called it Haftorah, Will Travel.”

Michael Bérubé on Kerry’s acceptance speech:
[I]t was not a home run. Nor was it a touchdown, a three-pointer, a shorthanded goal, a try, or a perfect 10. Kerry did not get a hole in one, he did not google a six, and he did not do that thing in curling where someone does something good in curling. In fact, the speech wasn't anything like a sporting ( Read more... )

Found in a textClipping file on my desktop; I think it’s a response to somebody asking about the term “a well-thumbed book” that I had trouble posting and saved and maybe never got back to:
The term dates back to the days before tape decks in cars. No books-on-tape, so if you wanted reading while you drove, somebody’d have to sit there reading to ( Read more... )

Hey, I just got his great offer in my email inbox. “Enhance your anatomy” it says. I guess someone’s sending it out to artists. I could use a better grasp of anatomy. I do well when I’ve got a model to draw from, but at other times my proportions slip a bit, and I find recently I’ve been forgetting about collarbones. But there’s apparently some ( Read more... )

“Onan provides the power that keeps you going - on the water, on the road, in your work, and at home.”
“Onan is a registered trademark of Cummins Inc.”

No wonder they’re all smiling.

(Via Agenda Bender)

Holy cats! Tonight’s weather is the opening of Akira!


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From the Borowitz Report (via Unqualified Offerings):
In a nationally televised address, President George W. Bush revealed that the blame for the Iraqi prison abuse scandal would be transferred from the U.S. to the new Iraqi government on June 30 ( Read more... )

Rumsfeld says panel will investigate abuse investigations