My birthday is coming up soon, and what I really want this year is a picture of me and Stevie Nicks. However, the woman who got internet famous for producing them on commission apparently no longer takes new requests ( Read more... )

I am sure you are all sick of me repeating the story of how I chose the wrong week to vacation in NYC and how I just happened to visit the top of the WTC on the evening of September 10, 2001. So this year I give you instead a video tribute to New York City, the city that's both too hot to handle and too cold to hold:

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This fall I am going to India for 3 weeks. It is looking less and less likely that my magnum opus "Making Out With You Killed My Dog" (not actual title) (current status: 22k words) is going to be finished by then, which means that I will need some way to work on it while I am traveling ( Read more... )

I am hearing lots of complaints about Palin's positions on gay marriage and abortion. The first one I have a lot of trouble getting worked up about, as "should gay people be allowed to get married?" is not in my list of "top 100 crucial public policy issues". The second is indeed an unfortunate position.

HOWEVER, Joe Biden is SO BAD ON DRUGS. ( Read more... )

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Q: What do Zig Ziglar, Rudy Giuliani, Suze Orman, and Colin Powell have in common? (Besides funny names and lesbianism, I mean.)

A: They are all participating in some kind of Get Rich Quick seminar at KeyArena today, which means that traffic was abyssmal this morning, and (worse) that the whole neighborhood is overrun with thousands of the kind ( Read more... )

s: so are we very sad today?
candid: we are slightly sad
candid: it's not like it was a good state of affairs pre-biden
s: i'm sorry
s: would you remind me again why you dislike him so much?
candid: he is terrible on drugfs
candid: drugs
candid: he authored the RAVE act
s: and that's the main reason?
candid: and the "defining addiction as a ( Read more... )

I used to love this guy when I was a kid, but shamefully I never thought of looking for him on YouTube. Until now:

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s: so who will Obama pick for VP ( Read more... )