I'm not sure what's more ominous, that I've dreamt of Osama bin Laden at least twice (silly, scary) or that I've dreamt of Roger Ebert at least twice (example).
In the mode of my Google party game, I learn other fortune cookie suffixes.
You, meaning I, always hear about the Ruby Ridge fiasco in the same breath as Waco, so I had no idea of the lopsided, breathtaking horror of the thing. An article from a pretty reliable …
When I completely forgot two thirds of my material on Tuesday, I felt much as Skot did: "I mentally pictured the skipped-over lines dying like slugs on a salt lick, and they screamed, 'Why didn't …
Brendan, on whom I can count for occasional odd spam subject lines, provides the title. I worry about copyright sometimes when I post excerpts from spam, but then I realize I'm being silly. And then …
I just reread Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Silly idea: a book entitled The Good Soldier Shevek. [The born-and-raised socialist/anarchist] tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was …
"Madonna wrote a children's book? Well, why not, she's done everything else. You know, I never realized that before -- when you're Madonna, you run out of things to do on a much larger scale. …
Also at work: I recognized that a customer had just picked up his Cal diploma, because he was carrying the no-ISBN anthology of essays that Cal hands out with diplomas. I impressed him, which is …
Just saw Better Luck Tomorrow with Hilary and Kim. It's deservedly an R for violence, but recommended. Just as after watching Pleasantville I experienced colors in the real world anew, after seeing BLT I saw …
Salon interview went okay-to-well. I met Scott Rosenberg! I'll find out by the end of next week. I was so exhausted by the evening that I didn't practice my act nearly enough and therefore floundered …
