Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Fucking raspberry vinaigrette! Hate it. I won’t eat it, and I will not date people who do. It’s clown food. If a clown made you a salad he’d put raspberry vinaigrette on it. And gummy worms.
The worst part about raspberry vinaigrette is that it’s for mediocre people who want to add “a touch of [...]
Worker #3116: This guy I knew back in [redacted] actually had a pretty good idea for a business. Like, you know how everyone loves puppies? It’s called Perpetual Puppy, and basically the company would deliver a puppy to your house, and then when it got too old would come back and replace it with a [...]
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Ti-1000:you should keep an eye on the ’slist for a bike
Worker #3116: yes
Worker #3116: i should
Ti-1000: even a really fucked up one, with consultation from the ‘chak
Worker #3116: right
Worker #3116: he’s a bike magician
Ti-1000: it’s true
Worker #3116: i know
Ti-1000: well, he might be more of a bike dwarven smith
Ti-1000: (+2)
Worker #3116: ha
Worker #3116: peter, i [...]
At some point, a few months ago, I made a conscious decision to remove myself from the comments section. It seemed like every time I went in there someone yelled at me for doing something wrong. But I used to like participating in the comments section, if for no other reason than it was the [...]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
(mail.yahoo.com)
Because, you know, everyone wants to hack into your personal emails about snack time and making ka-ka. WHAT?
I’ve always come out publicly against the golden-tinged, misty-eyed, nostalgiac viewpoint that things used to be better back before… Things have always sucked. Take this passage from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: “The average American [...]
Monday, September 25, 2006
Somehow, when I was a kid, I was convinced that I had coined the phrase “No way, Jose.” Up until probably, like, college, I was convinced this was true. I also thought that “wind chill factor” was “windshield factor,” but that is a totally different issue.
But it’s not true. I did not coin the phrase [...]
I saw this ad on the New York Times website yesterday.
I just honestly…who doesn’t remember their wedding day? That seems much harder and a much more interesting challenge. I’m not sure it’s possible, but I’ve come up with a few things you could try.
1. Don’t send out invitations. Just send out an email to a [...]
In some ways, squash offers a window into [Donald] Rumsfeld’s complicated psyche, revealing much about his stubborn competitiveness and seemingly limitless stamina. Pentagon officials and employees say Mr. Rumsfeld’s play closely resembles the way he has run the Defense Department, where he has spent six years trying to break the accepted modes of operating.
“He hits [...]
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