Archive for January, 2005

Memo to Goths

If you're on your way to brunch, spiffed up in top hat, tails and 9" platform boots (slightly higher at the toe), don't reach around the back of your tails to put your wallet in your pocket. It spoils the illusion.

Oh yeah, blogging, I do that sometimes

I don't recall asking to look like Rizzo from Grease and yet there is definitely something of a younger Stockard Channing in this haircut. This is somehow emblematic of this January. As the gods attempt to squeeze out one last farting burst of monkey before settling into the year of the green chicken for good [...]

Salted Fish

I was just looking at a picture of the world's most-pierced man and it got me thinking about the usual things: how I need a job, how my hobbies aren't going to get me a job (unfortunately) and how I need some direction in my life. It also made me ask: How the heck [...]

Something Else That Makes Me Optimistic for The Future

OK, OK, so the first day of Bush II: Freedom Isn't Free was pretty hard to stomach. But here's something that I guarantee will make you happy (or at least make you smile for a few minutes): Tiny Lister has been in 80 movies since 1989. That is pretty unbelievable. Also, he's [...]

Books for Poems

Yes, it's true: I've pulled double-duty today. So I thought it would be fun to make up a little list of fun topics and titles to write to today. Why, I'll even make a game of it. Whoever wries the best poem with one of these titles will win a book from [...]