Elliot Smith died, apparently at his own hand, last night. Northwestern students who saw him open for Wilco a couple of years ago remember well his bizarre behavior, which seemed to indcate he was having some serious drug issues. However, the word through the grapevine was that he had been doing a lot better recently, ...

I am now the proud owner of my first security badge. I had to get one for work, and I think it’s quite funny. It amuses me because growing up in D.C., people wore their security badges all the time, especially if they worked on Capitol Hill. I strongly suspect some of these people wore ...

To call this guy as dumb as a box of rocks would be an insult to boxes of rocks everywhere.

CheshireKim is to blame for my addiction to this. You’re welcome to blame me for yours.

First day of the new job went well. I will forewarn you all that I did have to sign a confidentiality agreement, so alas, I can’t tell you who showed up drunk, stoned, or both (although this is normally patently obvious to the aware TV viewer), or who’s secretly gay (that information, I’m retaining for ...

Can’t we do this with the real W.?

Last weekend, I got a little survey on my door asking if I had termites. Having not seen any bugs besides a disturbingly large fly that got in when I brought my bike in from the porch, I checked no. So of course, since my apartment was one of the few not sprayed by the ...

I’m employed! Not gainfully, but at least employed! I got an internship at the Ellen DeGeneres show, and I start Monday. This was the job I was starting to lose faith in a bit last night. The guy finally called me this morning as I was having a violent debate with my alarm clock about ...

Nothing major really happened today, but I did have a couple little things. – I got woken up at 7am (after finally getting to sleep at 4) for the 2nd morning in a row by some fabulous folks I now call Circular Saw Man and Dropping Shit Dude. CSM and DSD seem to be doing ...

Fucking fuck.