Dear Mrs. Obama:
I am getting really annoyed that your husband's campaign thinks my support is less than whole-hearted this time around because my vanity is injured.

Don't get me wrong: I do want my candidates to listen to me and to represent my views.

But I don't care a damn about getting to go the convention or sitting "up front" with you; I don't ( Read more... )

I have an open but unused box of (the wrong) Epson color printer cartridges.
T0441 20 black
T0445 20 color multipack
Fits Epson Stylus C64, C66, C84, C86, CX4600, CX6400 (which is the one I think I used to have), CX6600.
Apparently a $71 value. I just want to not be responsible for throwing it out. If you can use them, they're yours.
Here's Epson's list ( Read more... )

I don't specially wanna go to irk today.

OK. Really have to go to sleep now. Want to stay up waiting for pictures of micromartians.

I have it stuck in my brain that in the movie Starman (or in some movie like that, but I swear I can hear Jeff Bridges delivering the line in his Starman voice), the space visitor learns about death, and, parroting something someone has said earlier about a machine, remarks, "It was a bad design" or some variant: "It is a bad design," "it was a ( Read more... )

Apparently a massacre on opening night will knock about $30 million off your first-weekend take.
Batman Sales High Despite Shootings
By Brooks Barnes, NYTimes

“Putting an emphasis on grosses at this time just doesn’t feel appropriate,” said Phil Contrino, editor of Boxoffice.com.

The Globe found a Massachusetts connection with Aurora.

Massachusetts couple recalls scene at Aurora theater during shooting

By Zachary T. Sampson, Globe Correspondent

Tom Davis was Al Franken's comedy and writing partner in the 1970s ( Read more... )

Sometimes, something is just such a damn fine piece of writing and analysis that I'm awestruck and inspired. This here is a stunning little interview with Aaron Sorkin, by Sarah Nicole Prickett of the Globe and Mail. It has caused me to think seriously new thoughts about how to function as a writer in the world of the present, and also has ( Read more... )

Glory, orange and white with a fine lantern jaw, Mr. Jinks and Dick Tracy and her own sweet self. Thank you for letting me into your family. I will miss you.