The way sound travels in my building is truly fascinating. I seem to be able to hear it every time my downstairs neighbors do something louder than farting. However, when I saw this morning that someone had knocked all the numbers off my next-door neighbor’s door and then carved “FUCK” into their door with a ...

Freddy and Kendra? The FUCK?

Posting’s going to be a little sporadic for a while, because I’m having wild swings in my ability to both sleep and wake up. I slept for 16 hours on Saturday because I’m so exhausted from sweeps. And despite that, I overslept by almost two hours this morning (though due to my weird schedule, was ...

I think we have a winner in the “my cat’s cuter than yours” contest. The winner is the cheetah cubs at the National Zoo: Photo stolen from washingtonpost.com I want one! At least until it gets big enough to bite my hand off!

I found a dirt cheap fare and direct flights, so I’m coming to Chicago from March 30th to April 3rd. Who wants to play April Fool’s pranks on Mayor Daley?

I’ve started going into work and working out in the morning, on the theory that if I work out at work, I shave half an hour off my commute and thus don’t have to get up as early as if I work out at home. It’s nice, the equipment is health-club quality and I can ...

“Meet Singles With Christian Principles.” There’s so many issues with this that it’s hard to know where to start, but I can take a couple stabs at it: a) I’m Jewish. Not terribly practicing, but still. I don’t think being Jewish is really a Christian principle. b) I’m gay. There are many people for whom ...

Pushing the wrong button. At my job, it can put a whole studio in the dark for an hour in the middle of a taping when a supervising producer accidentally hits a killswitch and doesn’t realize it until the fire marshal looks at it. At some people’s jobs, it has slightly worse consequences, like accidentally ...

Posted in the elevator when I got home: “Dear tenants: There will be no hot water until tuesday night. Sorry.” Uh, if you have to work with me tomorrow, I hereby preemptively apologize for the stink.

Gaffer’s tape, applied carefully and judiciously, will hold your side mirror to your car, even at 85 miles an hour.