The Most Interesting Show On Television This Summer 2

There is a massive glut of bad reality shows on television this summer, and it’s enough to drive anyone into actually leaving the house and/or getting a life. There’s one show, however, that’s utterly fascinating. That show is 30 Days. I liked the first season last year, and this year, I think they’ve kept the ...

Not A Moment Too Soon

Hooray! It’s finally cool enough to just switch to letting the breeze come in at night, instead of running the a/c all day and all night and running up a giant electric bill!

Dear Dipshits

To the fine folks of the company billing me for the services of the doctor in Durango who pronounced my ankle sprained: Your hold system is broken. The first time I called in, I was on hold for over an hour after being told there were 2 callers in front of me. Please have the ...

Ouch

My electric bill doubled this month. Stupid massive heat wave. I, for one, blame Al Gore.

Wayback Machine 3

Wayback Machine
Continuing my theme of I Can’t Think of Anything Else To Post, let’s take a trip back to about this time of year in 1981, when I was young and my parents’ cat resented my existence: I do love that picture. My parents are convinced Fat Cat is looking protective. I think he looks more ...

Holy Shit, It’s Wednesday?!

One of the more entertaining topics of conversation at work today was this spectacularly obvious revelation in the press, and it’s subsequent causing of cases of shock (shock!) amongst certain Americans. The best comment I heard/read all day came from the comments on the Defamer story on the matter: I was more surprised when someone ...

Miscellaneous Etc. 2

I don’t have anything terribly original to say today, so I hereby present a couple of my favorite quotes from the interweb over the last couple of days: Hello, weather? Satan called. He’s sorry you two fought, but he really wants to patch things up, so you should RETURN TO HELL IMMEDIATELY. –50 Books. And ...

Dear Dumbasses Neighbors

It is a frillion degrees out. You should be operating the air conditioning that comes standard in all apartments in our building. You therefore should not have any windows open for your cat to push out the screen, climb out into the hole in the center of the building, and meow for 5 minutes. Your ...

The Shapiro Health Minute

My dad had surgery Saturday, and he’s doing better. The surgery was a success, although he’s going to have a pretty substantial recovery period since they weren’t able to do it laproscopically. He was still pretty loopy when I talked to him this afternoon, but he sounded good. He wasn’t asking for martinis yet, though. ...

It’s Hot In Los Angeles

It's Hot In Los Angeles
“How hot is it?”, I imagine you all asking in unison. It is this hot: That is a can of Diet 7up that overheated so badly in my car that the top literally blew right off. Sadly, the picture doesn’t do justice to the magnitude of how ridiculous it looks in person. I bought a ...