Archive for 2007/10


Robbed of Time and Enthusiasm

Any collected tolerance I had built up for my job bottomed out on Friday and I had to sit at my desk and wonder if I was experiencing an aneurysm or a psychotic break. I didn’t have the good fortune of dropping dead on the spot, but I also didn’t start talking to an imaginary […]

Pay No Attention to the Short Folks

Anyone who argues that buying new shoes cannot possibly change your outlook on life has obviously never bought (or tried to wear) a pair of stripper shoes.

If your view of the world doesn’t change from atop eight inches of fashionably questionable Lucite, then you’re probably not doing something right.

I Do Not Stand Corrected + Thursday Thirteen #3

Le Gars and I had one of those arguments tonight that shouldn’t be an argument at all because I was right and the mere fact he questioned my infallibility in the area of useless trivia and literary reference should’ve filled him with the kind of shame that makes a person throw himself into oncoming traffic.
We […]

Get Off My Mountain

This is why I love the Internet.
Lots of things have been going on, though none of them are especially remarkable or surprising. I believe in some tribes this less-than-phenomenal phenomenon is known as…habit. Ew. We’ll have none of that around here.
Not just because I subscribe to a number of conspiracy theory newsletters, but […]