I know some of you who should be submitting to this here antholgoy, which looks to be a hoot ( Read more... )

So, and I'm a little embarassed about this, but I totally skipped out on office hours yesterday ( Read more... )

Those of you from the City of Angels might be familiar with Sandra Tsing Loh. She's a funny, mildly caustic local essayist who's with a number of books out. She's also a talented performer with regular one-woman shows around town and elsewhere. She might be best known for a dust-up with local public radio goliath KCRW, which, in the throes of the ( Read more... )

"A Dallas cab driver is in big trouble for getting caught on tape sprinkling dried feces on pastries. Forty-nine-year-old Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh is on trial for allegedly throwing fecal matter on pastries at a Fiesta grocery store. Police said they found a pile of human feces by his bed. He would dry it [and] grate it up with a cheese grater and ( Read more... )

First order of business is me hitting the Ross Dress For Less Jackpot yesterday ( Read more... )

With this news:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/28/people.georgetakei.ap/index.html

I predict Mr. Sulu has just made it a little easier for Nerds to come out of the closet.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RipRap

(I'm poetry editor of this little shindig...)

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something silly after a comment was made today about a "mackerel sky"

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Who just picked up two tickets for tomorrow's Angel/White Sox game?
In the front row of the club level?
For less than face value?

ME
ME
ME
ME
ME!

oh sweet benevolent god of tickets (and all things baseball), thank you for what you have bestowed.

See you on the JumboTron.

On a silver Prius, with a rainbow lightening bolt sticker on the back:

ECOPHAG