Via Leonard, a bunch of jokes. Speaking of jokes, I'm seeing Will Franken on Wednesday at 8 at the Marsh on Valencia here in San Francisco. I urge you to come for his new one-man …
"The public library? Are you insane?" Sumana: http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2005/02/16/off_the_rails/index.html Nandini: what did you think of the advice he gave? Sumana: I thought it inspiring, witty, and incisive Sumana: unless you did not Sumana: in which case …
Last night Eric and I saw Jonathan Richman and Dengue Fever at the Rickshaw Stop. Jonathan Richman was vulnerable and wacky and touching as always, and made an endearing joke about stars. He played songs …
Tonight I am going to a Jonathan Richman concert with a male friend while Leonard works on an Ultra Secret Project. This is in keeping with the "February 14th is just another day" philosophy I …
My colleague Katharine Mieszkowski wrote about folksonomies a few days ago. She mentioned the group goal-setting site 43 Things. A reader told her to look into the relationship between 43 Things and Amazon.com, a huge …
Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don't have …
I see from the Apple.com trailers site that I can expect Duma to come out soon. It should be about the Russian parliament, but it is not!
Life Lessons in Literature by Margaret Berry makes me happy. I feel mildly ill so I went to Whole Foods and got a pharmacy's worth of placebos and symptom reducers. I got slippery elm lozenges, …
Today I decided that I should start every workday with the Evolution Control Committee.
I neither wanted nor needed to keep the mannequin limbs, so I gave them to a friend of a friend and they will probably end up decorating a nightclub. I kept the legs covered with …
