While writing the last post, I had the Jets-Raiders game in the background, and when a Jets player broke a tackle for a massive touchdown run, the commentator said “Holy Toledo!” I think he is the first person to use that phrase since 1954.

Apologies for the lack of posting and for the extremely long time the post about cursing stayed on top. A list of a few of the excuses that kept me from doing so: – Overall exhaustion based on some jackasses upstairs deciding weekend mornings are the best time to use a circular saw and a ...

I swear. A lot. This is not news to anyone who has read this blog, ever. But in professional settings, it’s pretty much not cool. So I really have to keep an eye on my cursing at work, and I’ve been doing pretty well with it so far, reducing my cursing level by at least ...

There’s something profoundly weird about watching the product of your entire day’s work (and in most cases at the show, significantly more work) go over the TV airwaves. I realized that there’s a big difference between working on a TV show, and realizing you’re working on a TV show when you actually see the finished ...

Proof you don’t have to have artistic talent to be amusing: Europe Vs. Italy The End Of The World edited to add: Oops! Forgot to credit Other Ellen with introducing me to these. A thousand apologies.

Does something called The Sunday Night Sex Show really need an explicit dialogue warning, or shouldn’t its title be sufficient?

Any tech nerds out there able to tell me why Fark has been loading the same homepage for the last 3 days in my IE browser, but loads fine (or as fine as anything will) in Netscape? No other website seems to have this problem on my computer, and the site loaded fine when I ...

Someday, I hope that I will be able to prevent myself from watching movies/TV shows with actresses I think are hot, no matter how shitty said movies are. I’m pretty decent at staying out of theaters for these movies, simply because they’re too expensive (Tomb Raider 2 being a notable exception), but when they’re on ...

You’re compared unfavorably with Stalin (the key quote’s at the end of the third paragraph).

Halloween was a bit of a bust out here in L.A. Main Problem: It rained here for the first time since I moved here two months ago. And it didn’t just drizzle and mist a bit and then stop after everyone had fled, as tends to be the case most of the time in LA. ...