Corporate sponsorship in college athletics has gotten out of hand. Witness the ridiculous bowl names this season. For instance, no matter the nifty season Pitt is having, I can't bring myself to be excited about the "Meineke Car Care Bowl." Sometimes the sponsor name forms unintentional phrasing alongside the proper bowl name, as in the "Brut Sun" ( Read more... )

I know a bunch of you folks are smart cookies and have occasional reason to compose professional wordiness. From someone who has to gets to read yer brilliance, please take the following tip in the spirit in which it was launched. (Violent metaphor intended ( Read more... )

Seen at Rhapsy about an age ago.

• Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
• NO CAPTIONS! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
• They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to ( Read more... )

I do love a day where the big featured story on cnn.com is about Michael Phelps winning another swim race. *happy nonviolent sigh*

O, Washington Post, your headline "Favre Stays Retired" was worthy of The Onion.

They should totally list all the other retired athletes who remain retired. Barry Sanders? Still retired. Bronco Nagursky? The same.

*giggling madly*

El Conejo sent me the link to this song today: RE: Your Brains. The artist is formerly of They Might Be Giants so brilliance isn't really unexpected. Plus, The song's about zombies and biz-speak jargon. Awesomesauce.

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Edit: So, not in any way related to TMBG, except that he sounds an awful lot like them and is very clever. Still: funneh!

My kids wanted to play Endless Ocean. Mostly, they just like to "swim" around the ocean and look at fishes. The game should support this kind of play. Unfortunately, the dumb thing won't even let us off the bleepin sailboat until we "research coral reefs." You dip of a game, preschoolers don't want to research coral reefs! They want to swim around ( Read more... )

The biggest chunk of my life-pie at the moment -- and probably for the rest of my life -- consists of my daughters, and this is excellent. I've had my priorities seriously out of whack in the past, but I think they're right-on at the moment. I'm comfortable with missing writing deadlines (not like I'm being paid for them, anyway) and turning down ( Read more... )

Dagnabbit, I've missed Audrey's birthday. And Binka's. Am sorry to be such a crummy friend, y'all! Argh.

Seriously, if I don't put things on my calendar these days, I forget them almost instantly. Which reminds me: I need to go put the laundry in the dryer before it starts to have a smell...

Some few of you folks know that by day I do some copy editing. I imagine that menial servicepersons in all industries have internal conversations much like mine ( Read more... )