- Something went haywire with my office chair. Now, over the course of the day, my body loses elevation at the same rate as my morale.. Oct 6, 1:17 PM
- Surest harbinger of a recession: morning "news" piece on fanatical coupon-clippers. Oct 14, 08:54 AM
- The hardest thing about writing is getting yourself into a state of not not writing. Oct 14, 12:35 PM
- I've been craving caribou and field mice all day. Being hungry like the wolf is significantly less sexy than advertised. Oct 16, 01:27 PM
- When I think of all the people in the world who don't have a doughnut right now it makes me sad, primarily because I am among them. Oct 17, 09:23 AM
- Even a decade later, Radiohead's "Creep" and Beck's "Loser" still resonant with me. I wonder why that is? Oct 17, 12:53 PM
- I wonder at what point McCain will just pull out of all states and spend his remaining $14 million on Werther's Originals. Oct 21, 12:58 PM
- I tricked my son into eating a corn dog by calling it a lollipop. Parenting is essentially just a series of lateral thinking puzzles. Oct 21, 06:09 PM
- I think Nixon was the last person running for president to rely so heavily on plumbers. Oct 23, 09:02 AM
Ha! We had an office chair do the same thing! You'd be sitting there, and then realize that for the last few minutes the chair has been sinking slowly without you noticing. This is especially great because I work for a police department, so we thought for a while about using that chair as the "perp" chair to put people in while the detective interrogated them.
Posted by: Jamie on October 23, 2008 2:27 PMI loved NPR's puff piece on coupon-clippers. It was a fatuous reaffirmation of the moronic belief that one's own time is completely valueless. They brushed past the storage issue with talk of 2-years' supply of ketchup, when in fact that woman must have entire rooms set aside for storage, and maybe has an intern to catalog the stuff so she doesn't buy 9 cubic yards of breakfast cereal before she's near the end of the last 9. Nevermind the gas she expends driving to 4 grocery chains to get all the good deals. I know someone who does this too, but she manages all the economic factors-- gas, time, savings, and storage. She's thrifty in general, but I think she likes it most because she can do it while she's watching her two under-5 kids.
PS- Radiohead sounds better as bluegrass: search for "Rodeohead" by Hard'n'Phirm.
Posted by: LAN3 on October 23, 2008 6:05 PMAre you ever coming back to blogging?
Posted by: LizRM on October 23, 2008 9:46 PMWe were able to get our kids to eat a lot of stuff they normally wouldn't have been interested in (vegetables) just by wrapping it in a tortilla and calling it a burrito.
Posted by: Elaine on October 24, 2008 8:30 AMThe "plumbers" one is very academically satisfying, but the Werther's Originals one had my chuckling for days after. Hilarious.
Posted by: Rob Cockerham on October 24, 2008 10:50 AMLaughing out loud at the McCain joke. Cruel but funny even from across the Atlantic.
Posted by: Steve on October 24, 2008 1:59 PMPS- Radiohead sounds better as bluegrass: search for "Rodeohead" by Hard'n'Phirm.
oh yeaaahhhh...its a great mix.
Posted by: operagal on October 24, 2008 6:04 PM(With heavy German accent): I'm here to fix the cable.
[70s porno bass line starts up.]
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Is it me or is Joe the Plumber fraught with pornographic possibilities? At least from what I've seen on the Internets. The Internet seems to have a lot of porn.
Posted by: Nihilist on October 29, 2008 3:57 PM