A very full weekend. Steve Schultz and I had food and watched the X-Men sequel (enjoyable, but I preferred the multiple allegories of the first film) and generally conversed for about five hours. I got …

[NEVER MIND; see update.] "Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon." Portland, Oregon. "There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak." There has got to …

My spiteful, stubborn tendencies put me right in Pike's camp. It's his house and he should be able to add a stoop. Intellectually I know the law wouldn't support me on the "if you don't …

I got to introduce the personable Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Crescent (an Arab-American love/food novel), tonight at Cody's. Yesterday I saw Douglas Rushkoff say such things as "I don't believe in 'homeland'" and "And they …

A conversation with SteveS yields the catchphrase "No Context. No Hype." I anticipate less persistence for this meme than I do for "case-diving," the phrase I made up for finding lost books at the bottom …

Better sites than mine have already noted The Eater of Meaning, but I especially adore what it does to pages that were already nonsense. Update: Favorite phrases scammed from meaning-eaten zombie pages:Bacon pi Attitude MistakeDespotic …

I walked along Blake Street and saw a woman in full graduation regalia. I shouted, "Congratulations!" She responded, fist raised, "Perseverance!" This is not a story, but a marker.

First: Gollum in an ad for CapitolOne credit cards. "What has it got in its wallet?" And second: will my new job have me pay a Salon Insurance Premium?

If J. Bradford DeLong is going to say that I havesmart views on why comments sections of weblogs (and everything else collective on the internet) tend to degenerate rapidly to USENET levels of chaos and …

Leonard called me at work to tell me to read Dear Raed. Salam Pax is okay! Thank God, he's okay! He's alive! Just thinking of it brings tears to my eyes. Update (10:50 am): I …