Matthew Yglesias was watching the second Couric-Palin interview so the rest of us wouldn't have to:

Katie Couric asks Sarah Palin which newspapers she reads and Palin replies “um, all of them.”:
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious ( Read more... )

I went a couple of blocks down to the local Subway for an early dinner. On the wall by the cash register, they posted any and all recently received counterfeit bills. There were two occupants. One was a $1 bill that was produced by decent plates, but was clearly on the wrong texture of paper; I could spot it as fake from across the room, but I've ( Read more... )

Apparently, in the Racer family, the only thing they've ever cared about is race-car driving. Who knew?

I've had a couple of people, including my own father, ask me if I'm giving up my U.S. citizenship by moving to this new job. I guess it's a fair question, especially from someone like my dad who has never even traveled overseas before. But it's kind of depressing that people would even think that the answer could be yes. Does my love for my ( Read more... )

Dear Judd Apatow and Kristen Bell, thanks for a near heart attack ( Read more... )

Caught a double bill of The Karate Kid and Enter the Dragon on AMC tonight while packing, and started thinking about this. The list is obviously pretty subjective, but the main criterion was how impressive the actual actors looked during the sequence (sorry, Kill Bill). Another requirement is that the villain has to look like a match for the hero ( Read more... )

I rode the Metro to Union Station today on my lunch break. At Union, a woman was getting very angry with a ticket-vending machine.

--Oh no, you will not do that to me!

Yeah, I'm sure you just put the fear of God into the inanimate object.

So you're saying that many of my preseason predictions were wrong? Stop living in the past! Contemporize, man!

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

1. Boston Celtics. The really impressive thing is the way that Kevin Garnett is rubbing off on the kids. Their bench, which was ridiculed in the preseason, looked very solid in their most recent ( Read more... )

So, I've played chess since I was eight. I played on my college team, and for money in tournaments after I graduated. I loved the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. Thus, there could be only one reaction to the news of his passing today:

Fuck that motherfucker. I pray that there is a hell, and that he's roasting his nuts there.I am so sick of ( Read more... )

I was sitting in Philadelphia's 30th Street Station over the weekend, waiting for an Amtrak train to take me back from a work-related trip. A man in a leather jacket baring the colors of the Pittsburgh Steelers approached me on the bench.

--Is that the Bible?

I was nonplussed, because I was engrossed in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, a book ( Read more... )