I hate colds. Really, really hate theb. Because when I hab a cold, I edd up talkig like this. Add I soud absolutely idsade. Dabbit. Adybody got ady decodgestant?

As I pulled out of my parking space this morning, I felt the familiar whump-whump-whump of a flat tire. I thought it was the front driver’s side tire, which has been giving me problems lately. But I looked, and it was fine. So I pulled out of my building, and the whumping continued, and I ...

So why do I laugh when the cat is asleep and rolls over and falls off the bed, and then decides (after some wild staring) to sleep where he lands?

Perhaps it’s exhaustion and sleep depriviation combining to make me punchy, but I cannot stop laughing at the looks on the faces of the cats on this site.

According to the fine folks at Lifehacker, Amazon.com and Coinstar have struck an agreement to let you cash out an Amazon.com gift certificate from Coinstar machines without them taking a big chunk off the top as they normally do. Here’s the Lifehacker post, but it looks from the Coinstar page like you can also get ...

You might have heard about the wee little blackout we had here in L.A. today, which put about two million people in the dark for about an hour and a half. I was in Valley Village, and I was fixing a paper jam as we were trying to run off a script when the power ...

I went to the dentist for the first time in two years today, which, of course, sucked. I had a cavity, though it was shallow enough that the dentist could fill it without needing to give me anaesthetic. The painful part came earlier. You know the little metal plaque scraper the dentist uses to clean ...

Someone very literary-minded at the National Hurricane Center has a healthy sense of irony. Either that or they just want to see a headline that screams “OPHELIA DROWNS 12”.

This asinine idea is going to be a massive trainwreck, but it will at least launch a thousand drinking games. Performer highlights include: William Shatner [well…that’s all you really need to know] Gary Dourdan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) and R&B artist Macy Gray with “Movin’ On Up” from “The Jeffersons.” Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace”) ...

I signed a lease for another year at my apartment tonight. It was really the smart move, since a) I hate moving with the fire of a thousand suns and b) since my rent hasn’t gone up in the two years I’ve lived here, this has actually become a really good deal instead of the ...