So I'm unemployed again. And what really makes me sad about it is when I'm looking at a job listing, and they say they want "good intercommunication skills". I should probably apply, mine are obviously better than whoever wrote that.

I've been trying to find full-time work for about three and a half months now. I think this sketch sums up the experience pretty well.

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RIP, George Carlin.

Teen ‘pregnancy pact’ has 17 girls expecting ( Read more... )

This zombie meme is pretty funny.

(from doronjosama and missmonster"You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have ( Read more... )

I was laid off from my day job recently. Not much to say about that, other than that maybe the agencies and graduate professors that I'm always trying to earn money from should tell the government that they are actually in the Iraq "rebuilding" business rather than the wildlife conservation business. Then we'd all be driving solid-gold Hummers ( Read more... )

Headline from the Windows Vista MSNBC ticker gadget:

"Shark Attack Victim Died Among Friends"

With friends like these...

I would like to find whatever fashion guru dictated that corduroy is Only To Be Sold In Autumn and kick the crap out of him. I spilled liquid latex masking fluid on my favorite pair of pants recently. Fortunately, most of it got on the back of the left ankle (I was sitting with my leg crossed on my lap when it happened), but I got a few drops ( Read more... )

And I'll just mention that I've now lived a bit more since I 1) participated in a reading of "The Eye of Argon" and 2) had a few sips of absinthe. I only sold three of my art show pieces, possibly since they were only up for one day, but a couple weeks ago, I didn't even think I'd have anything up on the walls there, so I guess I can't be too ( Read more... )

"'We're young. We need to experiment,' Natalie Winston, 12, said before the protest here. 'When you're 21, you're old already, and ugly.'"

Lip service to South Africa’s new kissing law