Kara and I went to see Robyn Hitchcock again on Thursday, the first time he’s been in our area since the Birchmere last year. Robyn was amazing, as always, but the venue (the Black Cat in DC) sucked. We bought tickets for “Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 8:00pm,” but it ended up being doors [...]
I’d just like to announce my new project at LieDuJour.com, in which I will tell you a new lie every day. That is all. EDIT: I should clarify that this post is not a lie. The site does exist.
The U.S. Congress is a big bunch of babies, as is obvious from the current rage over AIG’s recent bonus payouts. Let’s go through the history here: A year ago, AIG commits itself contractually to paying enormous bonuses to a bunch of douchebags who are ruining the company. This is just one of a slew [...]
I am currently eating a package of peanut butter cheese crackers. I don’t know why I’m eating a package of peanut butter cheese crackers, but I’m not here to introspect. You know the product I’m talking about, or maybe you don’t if you aren’t lucky enough to live in the land of obesity and yawning [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Kara’s laptop computer has been on its last legs for a long time now. Of course, I’m not actually sure that it ever had any first legs. I helped her pick it out, and I think there have been maybe three days since then that the laptop has actually functioned as intended. Kara has apparently [...]
Today I learned that a groundhog and a woodchuck are the same animal. How exactly I got through roughly two and a half decades of existence without learning this, I have no idea. My 10-year-old brother who’s into zoology could probably have told me this in a second. My Dad used to say, “How much [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Apparently, in the old days it used to be a lot easier to sue things. The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of inanimate objects against which the United States has actually filed suit: Four Hundred Forty-Three Cans of Frozen Egg Product Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca Cola Ninety-Five Barrels (More or Less) Alleged [...]
I bought an espresso at Starbucks at Union Station on my way home the other day. I walked in and asked for a “double espresso.” I even said “please”, as I recall. “A doppio,” the woman at the counter responded. Let me clarify at this point, lest I seem totally insane to the reader, that [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Every day now, there’s some news story about the economy in which some aspect of the current crisis exceeds analysts’ expectations. Yesterday it was “Consumer spending plummets twice as much as expected”; today it’s “Jobless claims up more than expected.” Have you noticed this? This has been going on for months now, and it occurs [...]