From a travel blog: "At first glance, Istanbul appears to be a city of stark and even contradictory contrasts ( Read more... )

I'm currently most of the way through Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence, and I'm pretty disappointed. I read Snow a while ago, and although I don't remember a lot about it, I certainly don't remember disliking it to this extent. But this book...it just seems to me to be hundreds of pages of a spoiled rich brat bitching and moaning about how ( Read more... )

Mr. Walker ( Read more... )

Brett Favre can suck my cheese balls.

[I don't really care that much about football, but Favre blows, so I'm happy we can do it without him.]

I didn't even realize this was Jack Johnson at first [internet radio at a friend's place], but I love this line...

"You're smooth and creamy, like peanut butter."

I really am getting tired of constantly traveling. I've pretty much been on the road, not spending more than one month [and that was definitely an exception - the average is more like a week] in any place, usually not bothering to really unpack, not having much personal space or personal time or stability, for almost ten months now [by the time I ( Read more... )

Few things really get to me, but here's one that does: when people, particularly those who have known me for quite a while, think that I'm inflexible and unwilling to make a compromise.

A few times, I've written an e-mail to my "boss" to let him know that I'm thinking about going on a trip. Really, since I'm freelance, I don't even have to ask ( Read more... )

Last night, two of my friends were talking about how they didn't really like to go to the dentist so they'd go together. I said, "Yeah, and then you can give each other molar support!"

Like...like...instead of moral support! Oh man. Awesome.

Brilliant idea #1: If you haven't had dinner [or even if you have] and you're in a movie theater that has both salty and sweet popcorn, get half-and-half - salty popcorn on top and sweet popcorn on the bottom. Boom, dinner and dessert ( Read more... )

Freud is a dick.

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Also, tomorrow I'm going to an R-themed party dressed up as a pirate.

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