17 Jun 2004, 17:02 p.m.

Just Two Months Early For Independence Day

Two, two, two articles in today's Salon feature India or Indian-Americans. Philip Robertson, Salon's constantly-in-danger Iraq correspondent, profiles Sudip Bose, who is basically the Army's Dr. Bashir. (If only we had Sisko and Kira running …

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17 Jun 2004, 10:08 a.m.

Also We Were Eating Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto On Arugula

This morning on BART, the person next to me was reading the same issue of Smithsonian as I was.

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16 Jun 2004, 10:07 a.m.

Listening To

Outside the Inbox, songs based on spam subject lines.

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14 Jun 2004, 22:03 p.m.

Post-Weekend Update

My performance evaluation went fine. Evidently I am doing a very good job but we still have ideas for goals and improvements. My haircut makes me look like Anjali from Alison Bechdel's strip. On Wednesday …

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11 Jun 2004, 9:29 a.m.

"Very Bad News"

Matthew Yglesias tries to spend his mother's last days with her. My condolences to him.

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09 Jun 2004, 15:52 p.m.

"You're as manly as the manliest tree on the Isle of Man."

One of the best Five-Minute Enterprises yet: Hatchery.

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09 Jun 2004, 15:50 p.m.

Here Baby, There Mama, Everywhere Daddy Daddy

Leonard and I gave each other buzz-cut haircuts on Sunday. I have never worn my hair this short before. I wonder whether my scalp will darken.

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08 Jun 2004, 16:50 p.m.

I Am A Nut

I'm now basically stage-managing Heather Gold's show, "I Look Like An Egg, But I Identify As A Cookie". It'll run Sundays, June 6th through July 18th. Playgoers indeed receive fresh cookies at the end of …

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04 Jun 2004, 21:06 p.m.

Annals of Compassion and Genius

I was unduly cold and harsh to a customer today. I thought something like "why can't these people follow directions? why do they do any old thing and then whine that they didn't get the …

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04 Jun 2004, 14:44 p.m.

How Could I Have Missed This?

Josh Kornbluth interviews Richard Yancey (Love And Taxes monologuist and Confessions ex-tax-collector, respectively). I guess the answer is that I missed it because I only bothered to register at the Washington Post two weeks ago.

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