It’s hiatus week again at the show, so there’s nothing to do there. And unlike last hiatus, my current position allows, nay, requests, that I do nothing for a week and still get paid. So I’m here for the first couple days then I’m going to Chicago. It’s weird, on weekends I can sleep until ...

Lorene Machado writes in Margaret Cho’s blog about becoming an iHo: The slow, steady process of having Apple products take over your life. I just bought a PowerBook (with AirPort wireless) about five months ago, and I’m already coveting an iPod. I’m trying to justify away the iPod lust by explaining that I really want ...

I’m not sure if I came up with this word, but it’s become my new favorite over the last couple of days. Crackmonkey– (n) A person who runs around like a monkey on crack. Includes fits of giggling, restlessness, and babbling. A natural state: If drugs are actually involved, the person is just high and ...

You know, when I was younger, I loved My So-Called Life. And I always rooted for Brian Krakow to get with Angela, largely because I thought Jordan Catalano was a dick. Or at least that was how I interpreted it at age 14. Subconsciously, of course, it was because I identified with Brian and was ...

Margaret Cho on the Jeff Stryker dildo. Margaret Cho’s weblog is now officially added to my list of links. And I cannot believe I didn’t know she had one before, because she fucking rocks.

Hee. Courtesy Kim

Linz looks into the meaning of her name on her blog, prompting me to look into the meaning of mine: Your first name of Ellen has made you a friendly, approachable, and generous person. Generally you are good-natured, though at times you can be blunt and sarcastic. As you are naturally talkative, you find it ...

Ten years ago today, Kurt Cobain shot his veins full of enough heroin to kill a horse, then pulled out a shotgun and killed himself violently instead. His heroin addiction was a product of a severe problem with stomach pain that he had been fighting since youth, and the addiction deepened the severe depression he ...

For dinner on this first night of passover, I had pasta and foccacia bread, followed by a dessert of chocolate chip cookies. I think this violates nearly every rule of not eating leavened bread products. It definitely violates every rule of the Atkins Diet.

I bought a new bottle of shampoo a while back, because I thought I was going to run out far before I actually did. I bought my traditional Pert Plus, with its 2-in-1 cleansing action. However, they didn’t have just plain old Pert Plus at the store when I went. They had Pert Plus Fresh, ...