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The Not-So-Great Pumpkin Adventure 2

Oct

31

2005

I bought a pumpkin to carve for the first time in a few years, and there were a few things that I forgot. 1. Buy a larger pumpkin than you think you’ll need. You need the big pumpkin so you can get detail on it. 2. Get small tools for carving it out. Kitchen knives ...

Too Easy 1

Oct

30

2005

Fill in your own jokes, kids: Ryan Seacrest To Be Queen For A Day.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Oct

29

2005

Finally catching up this week’s episode of Commander In Chief, the “OMG! The President is totally a girl!” show on ABC, I noticed one teeny, tiny error. Well, teeny, since it was only on for a total of less than thirty seconds, but not exactly tiny. Obviously, since the show is about the President of ...

Nerd Heaven 2

Oct

27

2005

YAY! DVD sets for Animaniacs AND Pinky & The Brain?! I seriously cannot contain my excitement. And Warner Brothers cannot get these out the door fast enough. I am such a geek. A very, very happy geek who’ll soon be getting a double-dose of Maurice LaMarche, but still. Geek.

The Spy Who I Think Maybe Met Me When I Was A Kid 2

Oct

27

2005

My dad sent me an article this morning about the neighbors of the Plame/Wilsons, and said “See if you recognize a name or two in there.” I was a bit surprised to read: David and Victoria Tillotson knew Valerie Plame as a neighbor and friend for more than five years. Plame was, the Tillotsons believed, ...

Attention Bad TV Movie Fans

Oct

26

2005

Everything’s not lost. Despite NBC’s decision to push back 10.5: Apocalypse, thanks to CBS, you will still have something to see this November in the genre of Bad Made-For-TV Disaster Movies. That’s right, from the makers of the stultifyingly awful (as opposed to spectacularly awful, which 10.5 was) Category 6: Day of Destruction comes Category ...

Damn You, E-Fares!

Oct

25

2005

One of America’s favorite bankrupt airlines sends me an email every week with fares I can’t afford to all sorts of places. Usually I just wish I had $600 for a weekend jaunt to Tokyo, and then send the email to the trash, since I don’t. But this week, when many of my friends are ...

Why Watching Baseball In A Bar Is Better Than Watching At Home

Oct

24

2005

So round about the sixth inning of tonight’s World Series game, Nate and I met up in a bar near his house. We had two amusing incidents in the four innings we watched: Incident The First: A fairly drunk Irishman with a very thick accent came up to us and tried out his theory about ...

Now Where Did I Leave My Earplugs?

Oct

23

2005

It appears my next-door neighbors have purchased some sort of karaoke apparatus. I found this out this evening while watching the World Series, as they were putting it through its (really loud) paces. They did not manage to concurrently purchase the ability to sing on-key. If you saw how off-key Liz Phair was during the ...

Miniature Dilemma 1

Oct

22

2005

I suddenly got hit with the odd urge to play miniature golf this weekend, but there’s an odd problem in Southern California. In the Yahoo! Yellow pages, there are eight listings for miniature golf courses in all Los Angeles county area codes. There are 20 listings in the 310 area code alone for full-sized golf ...