It started simply, with a link about Waffle House’s 50th anniversary appearing on Fark. Although I’m far more partial to their waffles and hash browns, it’s interesting to know that almost 2% of the eggs in this country eventually end up at a Waffle House. Too bad the closest Waffle House to me is in ...

I love Roger Ebert’s reviews of horrible movies. He’s not nearly as good a reviewer when he likes something, becuase there’s a particular bit of bile that gets stirred up within him when he really despises something. And he brought out the big guns for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo: a zero-star review. To wit: “Deuce ...

Whoops!: Swan Pair In Boston Turns Out To Be All Female And, of course, since this is in Massachussets, the center of the Gay Marriage Controversy, nobody can leave a silly story like this alone: ”I think this proves that there’s something in the environment in Massachusetts,” Brian Camenker, director of the Article 8 Alliance, ...

Speaking of cars, I got an oil change yesterday. And the place I get my oil changed at always makes me giggle a bit. Because it’s an EZ Lube next to an In-N-Out. I make eighth graders look mature.

I went to fill my tank this morning at the Cheapest Off-Brand Gas Station in LA (San Fernando Valley excluded). I could hear my credit cards whimpering as the numbers ceaslessly ticked upwards. And then, the numbers slowed down, and not because the tank was filling up. No no, the credit card was only pre-authorized ...

As shitty as I sometimes feel about how things are going, sometimes you read something that just puts a lot of stuff in perspective for you. Like when I read about poor Dana Reeve. Less than a year after she lost her husband, now she has to announce to the world that she has lung ...

Well, it started out being a decent day. Then, this afternoon and evening, everything went shitty. First, I had to do a run that was almost all the way to my house, then come all the way back to the office only to be let go 10 minutes later. Inconvenient and annoying. Then, when I ...

Reading Fark today, I ran across one of the odder, more disturbing things I’ve read in a while. They linked to some Smoking Gun pages about potential Apollo disasters, and the memos suggesting presidential comments at the time. The whole thing is just bizarre, but I think the weirdest section is a fill-in-the-blank condolence, where ...

You know, watching all nine episodes of this season’s Six Feet Under in one weekend is probably not the best thing for one’s mental health. Especially considering how damn depressing the last episode was, and I can’t imagine the one tonight will be any cheerier. I’m going to go find some prozac or something…

My, but I do enjoy getting hammered. Especially when I get hammered enough that I can dance. Because while it takes a significant amount of alcohol to get me to dance in public, I really do love to dance. Ah, the Office Party: Where the only time that drinks are on you is when you ...