Archive for the 'foreigners' Category

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

I don’t know about you (thankfully!), but when I watch the BBC documentary Planet Earth (Planet Earth, son!), I want to see a lot of this:

Aw look at it. I SAID LOOK AT IT. That’s right. Good job, Earth. You are really doing it with the wonders and myriad mysteries and stuff.
When I watch [...]

Accounting for My Absence

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

On the plane to France, the seatbacks have the embedded TV screens, which offer a selection of movies and “games.” The games are sub-first-generation Game Boy, with the sole enhancement that they are in color rather than sick-green and black. But they do have my favorite game “Qui Veut Etre Un Millionaire?” I have already [...]

I Just Friend-Closed Un Set

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

My friend Léo is in town from Switzerland. We have not seen each other in 9 years. We were never best friends, to be honest, but we liked each other (le nullus). He speaks very little English, and my French is not what it used to be. Now, he is staying at my apartment, and [...]

Worker #3116 Vs. The Department of Motor Vehicles

Friday, August 31, 2007

Hot tip for teens: when you have a psychic hunch that going to the DMV on the Friday before a bank holiday is a terrible idea and that it will be like a cliche’d joke done by a comedian who calls himself “The Laugh Man” about how long the wait is at the DMV, FOLLOW [...]

I Am Not McLovin, Chi-kah Chi-kah Nope

Monday, August 27, 2007

Nicely done, Superbad. Even though your best joke happened in the first five minutes, you had plenty of well-deserved laffs (and one very overwrought and confusing menstrual blood joke that I think you could have done without, like, seriously, it took five minutes just to set it up, you guys, professional criticism free of charge, [...]

Try and Alienate as Many Readers as Possible Week, Day Four!

Friday, February 23, 2007

Inside joke!
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Try and Alienate as Many Readers as Possible Week, Day Two!

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Try and Alienate as Many Readers as Possible Week, Day One!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Iran-curious

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

(huffingtonpost.com)
Is it just me, or are you totally confused by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? On the one hand, he’s a terrifying extremist and Holocaust denier with nuclear ambitions to God knows what end, and on the other hand there isn’t anyone in the world who looks like more fun to go grab a pomegranate martini.

It’s Thursday, You Ain’t Got No Job, You Ain’t Got Shit to Do

Thursday, December 7, 2006

(New York Times)
Mixed? Really? It kind of looks like the reaction is universally “Nigga, we gettin’ high.”

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