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How A 66-96 Finish Can Be Considered A Minor Miracle

Oct

4

2010

I grew up a fan of the Baltimore Orioles, a necessity for a baseball-loving kid in D.C. in the 80’s, a time when the hope of even having a team as perennially awful as the Nationals was barely a dream. I’ve stayed an O’s fan long after I moved away, lamenting dumbfuck trade after insane ...

Oops!

Nov

20

2007

If you thought the incidents where various American companies lost laptops with 300,000 or 400,000 people’s financial information were bad, then be very thankful you don’t live in Britain.

I Just Can’t Live Without Rageahol! 2

Nov

11

2007

You ever have one of those moments where something stupid occurs, and you get disproportionately angry about how stupid it is? You realize you’re overreacting a bit, but it’s just SO flamingly stupid, you get a bit worked up about it? I went to a free screening of American Gangster with a friend in the ...

Cleanup on Aisle 6

Feb

23

2007

I think I set a new world record for clumsiness this afternoon. I was out doing some errands for the production company’s office (I officially work for one of the production companies that produces the show, and they have an office off-lot), and I managed the most fractious display of my clumsiness ever. First, I ...

Waiter Quiz

Nov

9

2006

Take this quiz to find out whether you should be a waiter! Or, conversely, whether you were the waiter who waited on my party this evening. 1. A party of five is led to a booth designed for four, in which they will not fit. After some wrangling, they are eventually led to a larger ...

Success! 1

Sep

19

2006

If you can read this, Time Warner Cable officially just got much lower on my Shit List.

On Notice 1

Sep

17

2006

The following people, corporate entities, and inanimate objects are hereby on notice: 1. Time Warner Cable. Four hours of pure fiasco, and I still don’t have cable. “It needs to come in from outside” apparently didn’t convey clearly enough the need for drilling, and thus for a signed note from the building manager. The manager, ...