It's official, the Chevy Chasians are adopting my kittens ( Read more... )

I realize that most people are just trying to make polite, innocent conversation when they comment on the lovely weather we’ve been having, but I’m getting so tired of it that I think it’s only going to be so long before I stop suppressing my urge to grab them and throttle them and strap them down and force them to watch An Inconvenient Truth or ( Read more... )

Happy new year, everyone ( Read more... )

I just saw a car-top menorah on a van in my neighborhood, just like this one, complete with the Chabad slogan and everything:


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The Amputee Coalition of America is having its holiday party in the room across the hall from my office today.

The opportunities to make tasteless jokes are going to be, to say the least, astronomical.

Happy holidays, everyone.

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I went to work at the trap-neuter-return program run by Alley Cat Allies. Fifty six cats were spayed/neutered over the course of just a few hours! I got to carry the still-anesthetized cats back into their traps post-surgery, so they could be brought back to their colonies later. Holding an anesthetized cat is interesting. It feels like you're ( Read more... )

I don’t mean to be cocky or anything, but my bandmate is cooler than your bandmate. My bandmate decided that it would be really funny to show up at the Big Stupid Mt. Pleasant Hipster Halloween Party wearing nothing but a pair of sneakers and a watch, and wielding a recent copy of The New York Review of Books. She called the next day to recount ( Read more... )

On Friday night I slept in the bed that my grandmother had died in a few days prior. My mother missed her calling as a mortuary beautician; at every fucking funeral, she insists on redoing the corpse’s hair, because the morticians “got it all wrong”. The funeral director could see her trying to comb my grandmother’s body’s hair with her fingers ( Read more... )

On Tuesday morning the doctors declared that my grandmother had about 24 hours left. Now, over 100 hours later, she's still hanging in there ( Read more... )