I find myself watching much more TV than I did just two months ago. After all, now I have a TV, and also Leonard just got a TiVo (I'm sure he'll tell you about that …

My mom used to tell me, "listen to people mean, not what they say." To wit (Salon, may need a Day Pass): I am a literalist. To my frequent dismay, I listen to and believe …

People are telling me to get out of the office already and go on vacation. Our IT guy set up my email autoreply and told me my "bot" was ready, so of course I imitated …

Sometimes one can decadently buy a few ounces of chocolate or corn syrup or caffeine from the vending machine, and sometimes one goes lowbrow and just dumps lots of company-subsidized white sugar in the steeped-extra-long …

I consistently misspell "have" as "ahve," "can" as "cna," and "startdate" as "stardate."

I'm visiting LA and Bakersfield this weekend for a wedding. Susanna is becoming a wife.

Salon Premium just added a few new benefits to signing up -- if you're in the US you can get US News and World Report, and Canadians can get Geist. Several Canadians contacted me today …

The editorial staff was gathered around a TV, and for a second I worried that some cataclysm had befallen us, but no. Joan Walsh was on Bill O'Reilly's show, that's all.

Try not to turn off your phone, go to a meeting, sit in a chair that is the same color as your cell phone, and then think you have lost said phone and run around …

If you liked Peter Brook's Mahabharata, you might also like Dune!