Hello, everyone. It's a lovely, dripping, chilly Friday morning. I've just had some coffee, and my brain has started to function, thank God. I can now vaguely remember my full name and why I'm sitting at a desk. Give me half an hour, and I'll be able to do something besides data entry.

Anyway, here is a website for your enjoyment:

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If anyone has an extra ticket so that I could see Ann Coulter and Al Sharpton tonight, or one for Howard Dean's talk tomorrow, I would love them forever. And maybe bake them cookies.

Anyone? Anyone?

Today, Gizmodo posted a link to the greatest, most horrifying machine of all time. They say:

For our readers of farming stock, "Life just got easier," thanks to Bright Coop’s new E-Z Catch Chicken Harvester. Essentially a vacuum for chickens, this device sucks the wayward birds into its clutches to be quickly filed away into their open coop. The ( Read more... )

Those of you who like eccentric literary figures will be happy to know that Tom Wolfe is coming to Vanderbilt on April 4th. I want to see him in his Colonel Sanders suit. Anybody want to go with me?

Have you ever had a headache so large, so terrifyingly constricting, so poundingly awful that you felt as though your skull might split open and spew forth screaming, evil headache demon babies? Because I have one of those headaches right now. It crept up on me this morning, slowly, as I entered data into the computer. I started feeling dizzy when ( Read more... )

Three important things happened yesterday.

One, I read a fantastic article by Dave Eggers on why Kings of Leon rock so hard. It can be found here. Even if you don't like Kings of Leon, you should read the article because Eggers says a lot about music and why he listens to certain bands. His reasons are similar to my own. I loved the ideas in the ( Read more... )

So apparently there's a midget shortage in Hollywood. Who knew?

"It's very difficult to employ persons of restricted growth when....bloody Gringotts and the Chocolate Factory are filming at the same time."

Something that I really love: when I am drinking a hot drink and breathe down into the cup, and the steam rises up and fogs my contacts for a second. It's strange and cool, and most of you will never experience it.

Ha! My fucked-up vision is good for something. I win!

If you, like me, are flush with Christmas cash, you might want to consider donating some of it to a disaster relief organization. I can't imagine what it's like in South Asia right now, and the area needs all the help it can get. Here's a link to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund if you're interested:


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Good job, Jeffrey! That's really cool.