The other day I happened to catch someone experiencing one of my very favorite feelings. The minor win. When something is being really unnecessarily frustrating, and you suddenly figure it out and save the day ( Read more... )

Good news on the mysterious, inconvenient supercold front: it seems to have peaked ( Read more... )

With the sudden trendiness of Iranian politics, my insistence on following foreign elections has finally paid dividends ( Read more... )

So I'm walking down the old 6th grade hall from the elementary school, and I have a distinct and unsettling feeling that I'm being followed. So I duck into a room that turns out to be the Indie office at SB, except painted a deep red and very harshly and brightly lit. All the staffers I know are there, and laughing to each other, but totally ( Read more... )

Dear Kobolabalaba ( Read more... )

The Eleanor Roosevelt school of motherhood ( Read more... )

"Get yourself a hut house not too far from town, live cheap, go ball in the bars once in a while, write and rumble in the hills and learn how to saw boards and talk to grandmas you damn fool, carry loads of wood for them, clap your hands at shrines, get supernatural favors, take flower arrangement lessons and grow chrysanthemums by the door, and ( Read more... )

From the wikipedia article about the BBC show Have I Got News For You- In a 1994 episode, Deayton read out the following: "The BBC are cracking down on references to Ian and Kevin Maxwell, in case programme-makers appear biased in their treatment of these two heartless, scheming bastards." ... the Maxwell brothers were about to go on trial, and on ( Read more... )

Lebenskünstler ( Read more... )

Earlier, I tweeted ( Read more... )