Presidentiality and Literateness

Earlier this week I got involved in Facebook discourse regarding suitable materiel for the George W. Bush Presidential Library. Upon reading the assertion that Dr. Seuss might be a little highbrow, I found myself in disagreement. Seuss would be fine as long as there were ready adaptations more pertinent to the political realities faced by [...]

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LIVEBLOG of Giant Robot Day!

I’m following some unusual advice today, from the good folks at On Your Feet: “Go through your entire day visualizing that you have a personal giant robot that protects you, defends you and gives you outrageous compliments.” It sounded like fun. And I’m going to liveblog it so you can see all the action as [...]

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One more teabag joke, for the road

As the sun sets on one of the most amusing double-entendre-fests ever to grace cable news, we should perhaps ask one question: was it worth it? Did the teabagging work? I think we have definitely seen a stiffening of the Republican Party’s resolve. There was some question over whether they could keep it up, but [...]

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SpamWow

My Gmail account has been receiving its share of spam email. It’s not a huge amount, and it’s all filtered out of my Inbox, so I don’t care that much. But yesterday I went perusing the subject lines in that Junk mail folder, and it was wonderful. I would love to be able to draw [...]

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Brandverbing

Some time back, I was talking with some of my Xerox colleagues about a particular admonition dispensed during orientation:  that Xerox is a noun and must by no means be used as a verb. When I was five, before I had ever heard of Xerox Corporation, I remember my piano teacher telling me to “xerox the [...]

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Everybody wants prosthetic foreskins on their…

Some of the products out there just baffle me. It seems that one can now buy reusable latex foreskins for a different experience. (Thanks to Andrew over on Facebook for the link.) All together now: “please be gentile with me”…

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I am so coveting this T-shirt.

Sometimes, there are T-shirts one absolutely must have. Posted using ShareThis

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Chinese Restaurant Menu

Most of us have seen menus at foreign restaurants and found a “quirky” translation or two, but the menu in this post really has to take the crown. “Fuck silk” is an entertaining notion, certainly, but I don’t know that I want to eat it.

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Title of the post.

Beginning of long, rambling anecdote involving either a car, a pet or a bizarre sexual accident. Digression into discussion of one of the others of these three. Continuation of anecdote, now with a number of emoticons. Total tangent. angsty!whiny!Fanperson ranting about how long it’s going to be before the next movie/book/series which is their fandom’s [...]

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Doesn’t feel like amore.

When a big pizza pie hits you in the eye, that’s extremely painful and should not be compared to the moon. Especially if there are anchovies.

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