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For A Guy With No Legs, He Kicks A Lot Of Ass

Jan

24

2008

An aside huzzah: I now have a replacement replacement computer. Let’s see if this one works for more than a day. I was catching up with Fark links for the last day when I came across a fascinating story about a man with no legs who surreptitiously took pictures of everyone who stared at him ...

If You Need Me, I’ll Be Moving To A Cave

Jan

23

2008

…Where there are no electronic things I can break or have crap out on me. The fucking hard drive on the laptop I rented while mine’s getting fixed up and died on me when I got back from work. I ran disk utility off my Leopard install disk (a way you can sometimes fix problems ...

When It Rains, It Pours

Jan

22

2008

I had put my MacBook Pro on that counter before, a thousand times before. I had no reason to think last night was any different. No reason until it came tumbling down, open, about 10pm last night. And that’s when today’s nightmare began. I thought it was fine at first: Everything was working properly, no ...

A Follow-Up To My Previous Post 1

Jan

20

2008

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is about as dumb as you’d think. parts of it are dumber, parts of it are not as dumb. Overall…about as dumb. I’m not quite at the point of demanding the filmmakers pay me for the 2 hours I spent watching it, but yet I still think I’d ...

Is This Because I’m A Lesbian?

Jan

19

2008

I strolled out to the mailbox today to retrieve my Netflix movies, the better to facilitate keeping my broke ass at home. I was expecting two movies, but when I opened up the mailbox, I saw three. Huh, I thought, they must have mailed me an extra copy of the Futurama movie, which I mailed ...

It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

Jan

17

2008

As word spreads over the interwebs that the DGA has cut a deal with the studios, I’ve already had several people ask me if this is going to end the Writer’s strike. Frankly, I doubt it, and I base that doubt on the following key analytical paragraph from this New York Times story about the ...

Fun With Unfortunate Advertising

Jan

16

2008

“Cashmere Mafia on ABC….Brought to you by Valtrex!” No better marquee sponsor for a thinly disguised remake of Sex and the City than a herpes medication. That single line by the announcer made me laugh a lot harder than anything on the actual show.

Spring Cleaning

Jan

16

2008

Here’s how bored I am right now: I cleaned. And not just “sprayed some Lysol over the bathroom” cleaned. Like, threw out tons of shit I don’t need anymore. You know how, when you move, there’s always a few boxes that never actually get unpacked until you move again, and you wonder, what’s in here ...

It Could Be Worse 1

Jan

14

2008

I could have worked for a company that used Axium for its payroll services, since they just declared Chapter 7, leaving many creditors (including the IRS) with questions about where all the money went. Defamer has been covering the whole mess pretty well (with “Rhymes With Shmembezzelment” being one of my favorite tags they’ve ever ...

A Hike Through Griffith Park

Jan

11

2008

As part of my Continued Adventures in Killing Time, my friend Lisa and I went for a little hike in Griffith Park (a moderate one was about all my ankle could take), and I decided to use the opportunity to practice taking some decent pictures. More on my Flickr site, but here are some of ...