let me just say that i am tremendously dissapointed with the narrative direction of the recent "e*surance" commercials that have been airing on kbhk44 lately.

finally.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050926/squid.html

RIP: my mini-fridge. it soldiered on long, long, long, long, long after it should have been declared dead; it made lance armstrong look like a total pussy, keeping my leftovers in suspended animation well after anyone else would have shot it and left it out back ---- for as long as i've had it it's had a busted "freezer" unit that caused weird- ( Read more... )

although it should be fairly obvious to even the casual observer that the recent commercial featuring the General Motors CEO (?) and Snoop Dogg playing golf and talking cars is pretty much the bottom of the cultural barrel, it somehow only makes me like Snoop even more. Yes: clearly he's "sold out," but clearly he's so far beyond caring about ( Read more... )

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Which Tim Burton character are you?
The Headless Horseman
Silent, but deadly.

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here's a blurb i stole from imdb.com's news ( Read more... )

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well, it finally happened, a random disaster gift-wrapped from the universe to me: my hard drive totally died, the file system just bit it. tech people and my own knowledge of puters confirmed i was fucked, so after some admirable (and totally futile) efforts to preserve what was there, i went ahead and nuked the thing, re-formated the whole shee- ( Read more... )

went this morning to put my contact lens in, and right there in my left eye was this enormous eyelash. like just sitting there, right on the eyeball part. it seemed totally incongrous, and the kind of thing that should have driven me insane, like what the fuck is an eyelash doing sitting RIGHT ON THE EYEBALL ? i didn't even know that could happen ( Read more... )