Freak Out Friday

As a special Friday afternoon treat, here’s an excellent cover of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” by — who else? — Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer:  Redemption Song (clickety-click!)
Because who better to cover a Rastafarian song about slavery than two old white dudes?  And not just any old white dudes, it’s The Man in Black and the [...]

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Shameless Self-Promotion

Since I write about it so much here, I’ve decided to start an entire blog devoted to food.
The new blog is called she eats. and I’m pretty darn proud of it so far.  Hell, my first reader comment was from none other than Robb Walsh, so I guess that’s a damn auspicious way to kick off [...]

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Good Samaritans Still Exist

This story breaks my heart on so many different levels.
Deported Samaritan: ‘I never could have left him’
Illegal immigrant gave up his trek to U.S. to help 9-year-old wreck victim in Arizona desert
PHOENIX — An illegal immigrant who gave up his long walk into the U.S. to help a boy whose mother was killed in a [...]

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Kucinich???

Good God, could this really be true?

Ultimate 2008 Presidential Candidate Matcher
Your Result: Dennis Kucinich
 
The top priority of Dennis Kucinich is to end the war in Iraq. Kucinich also favors a repeal of the Patriot Act, would fund stem cell research, and create a universal healthcare program. He is liberal on social issues, and favors eliminating [...]

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It Ain’t Me, Babe

There’s something about getting married that makes you reexamine your past relationships with fresh eyes, whether you intend to or not.
I was sitting in my office this afternoon, making address labels and generally minding my own business.  Absolutely nothing was going through my head except the satiny-rough sounds of Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy streaming through my [...]

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Guilty Pleasures

After spending a large chunk of the [rainy, cold and drizzly] afternoon watching “America’s Most Smartest Model” and then reading the recaps on TWoP (good gravy-fed God, I’m a dork!) I felt the need to purge some of my other guilty pleasures into the keyboard and onto the screen, in hopes that I’m not the only one [...]

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Wine Tastes Like High School

My sweet Richard ran to the grocery store tonight to grab some fresh veggies and a bottle of wine to go with the lovely fat porkchops I had planned for dinner.  In a hurry to beat the impending thunderstorm, he grabbed the first bottle he saw that looked appealing.  It turned out to be something [...]

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Better Now?

I realize that I have written three very acidic and bitter-sounding posts back to back here.  To prove that I do have a heart — even if it’s shriveled and black the last few days — here’s a highly random sampling of photos that I find both amusing and cute.  Okay, mostly just amusing, but [...]

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Only Assholes Read The New Yorker, Anyway

In my daily stack of office mail today, there was an angry letter from a disgruntled retiree.  This is a daily occurance; in fact, I believe that I could create a standard form letter for them to just fill in with the appropriate personal information and then sign.  It would save us all a lot of [...]

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A Role Model For Our Time

In today’s ongoing trend of proving negative stereotypes true, we have this gem courtesy of a New York Times article on a rather Caligulan “ritual” that apparently occurs during half-time at every Jets’ game in Giants Stadium.  I’ve taken the liberty of highlighting the juicy bits for you (what I consider the best bit is underlined and in [...]

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If You Lie Down With Dogs…

…you wake up with dirty, thieving scousers.

Fifth Liverpool player is burgled
Dirk Kuyt has become the fifth Liverpool footballer to be burgled in less than 18 months.
The 27-year-old striker’s luxury home in Woolton was targeted on Thursday while he was away on international duty with home country Holland.
Merseyside Police confirmed they were investigating a burglary [...]

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As If I Needed Another Reason To Love DeRo

…or Pat Onstad, for that matter.

Yesterday’s game was everything a Dynamo fan could have hoped for.  It was what the game is all about: hair-pulling despair and nail-biting nervousness in the first half, rewarded with an explosive, manic jubilance in the second.  Any game that can give me goosebumps for almost two straight hours is a [...]

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Detachment

Although it was a long time ago, it’s still chilling to read a chronicle of your friend’s suicide written with such matter-of-factness as if it were the minutes to an HOA treasury meeting or something equally banal.  The inclusion of such personal details, such as the chocolate chip cookies, make it even stranger.  And I don’t even [...]

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Thursday Tidbit

These two items from TWoP’s recap of last night’s “Kitchen Nightmares” episode cracked me up this afternoon:
In the kitchen, Brian knocks back a beer and brags about drinking Ramsay under the table. Whatever, Ramsay would be on his eighth glass of whisky and you’d be passed out from his fumes.
and
In the dining room, Ramsay critiques [...]

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To Say “I Love You” Right Out Loud

I’m listening to Pandora this morning, which is an advisable respite from Project Playlist.  I’ve got about fifteen little radio stations set up, but this morning I’m listening to the “Air” station (the band, not the mixture of gases).
Pandora does this weird thing sometimes where it throws a completely random song into your otherwise homogenous [...]

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Ausgezeichnet

So, I’m making my morning journey upwards in the elevator today.  It’s refreshingly nippy outside and our offices have been decorated for Christmas, so I’m in a bit of a holiday mood.  Since I’m the only one on the elevator, and I bore easily, I start singing to myself:
Santa Claus is coming to town, Santa [...]

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You Can Never Go Home Again

Last post of the day, I swear.
When Richard’s family were over here last week, we had several very interesting discussions with them regarding whether or not they’d ever move back to England permanently.  For both his mother and stepfather (who live in a villa in Spain, but keep a house back in Cheshire) as well [...]

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Giving Back

I know, I know — five posts in two days — but I guess it all got bottled up while I was taking a break from blogging to, you know, get married.  Maybe I should have done the NaBloPoMo challenge after all.  Anyway…

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Totally Rad

I’ve got nothing but mad, mad love for Natalie Portman.  I really should go right now and add her to my “Girl Crush” list.  But that said, this short piece is – in a perfect little nutshell –why I love the hilarious writers at The Superficial:

Natalie Portman attended the world premiere of her new movie Mr. Magorium’s [...]

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It’s My Own Fault…

I really should have checked my e-mail while I was out on my two-week vacation/wedding/honeymoon shindig.
As a result, I was faced with 276 mother-f’ing, godforsaken e-mails when I finally made it into the office this morning.  As of right now, I’ve whittled it down to 194, with the help of a closed door, my headphones and this [...]

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