I love coming home to extremely loud road work being done directly outside my window at 9pm. And continuing until 10. And probably until 11. As nice as it will be to have pressure sensors to make the light timing at my corner make sense, they really could have done this on the weekend. If ...

Apparently, in addition to cancer, diabetes, alcoholism, insanity and heart disease, Human Cannonballism can run in families. The stunt that sparked that story was apparently part of something bigger: Javier Téllez told NBC 7/39 that his goal with One Flew Over the Void is to create a powerful political message about open borders. During the ...

I’m absolutely exhausted and I have to get up and work tomorrow morning, and I can’t sleep. An uncertain job situation (which I will not go into here, mostly because it would take pages to explain) is the main cause of it, though the angst from that seems to be bleeding into other parts of ...

When I finished up my last job, they were trying to get rid of as much of the craft service stuff as they possibly could, so I took home a box full of snacks. One of the things in the box was little one ounce snack packages of mini-marshmallows, with the most ridiculous health claim ...

I can’t remember how I got here link-jumping, but somehow I ended up hearing about Jimmy Kimmel’s feature “This Week in Unnecessary Censorship.” The idea is that you can make even the most innocent thing sound really, really dirty if you bleep it so that the viewer allows their imagination to run wild. Here is ...

When I got home tonight, I was greeted, as usual, by Chaplin. However, he didn’t look quite like that picture. He had an additional big black streak on one side of his face. I couldn’t figure out where it could have come from, and I couldn’t get it off with anything (although Chap’s violent objections ...

I’ve been very, very slowly going through my Europe pictures while preparing them for upload, and I found this one, and had a scary thought: At the Hofbrau Haus in Munich, Germany In a little less than three years, this man will be a lawyer. And will be able to sue me for making him ...

In Goat World’s continuing series of helpful hints, I present to you, via Dave Barry’s blog, one of the more ridiculous stories I’ve read in a while. Because when you accidentally vaccum your ponytail so thoroughly that dismantling the vacuum cleaner won’t even free it, it’s beyond time for a haircut. As one of the ...

I was on the phone with my mother this evening, and had the following exchange with her: Mom: Oh, the Christmas Cactus is blooming. Me: Isn’t it a little early for that? Mom: Well, it’s been so hot that I’ve been turning the air conditioning up really high… Me: (uncontrollablle chuckling) Mom: And apparently I ...

1. Wow, look how much bigger my couch appears when there’s not three tons of shit on it! 2. I had no idea my coffee table was this spacious! 3. Where did all this carpet come from? 4. How on earth am I going to file this enormous pile of things that need to be ...