Archive for July, 2007

This isn’t an official video or anything. It’s just some homemade video some guy put on YouTube. But the soundtrack is Yo La Tengo’s “From a Motel 6,” a personal favorite. If you had to pick one Yo La Tengo song to respresent the band (which is basically what I’m doing here), you couldn’t go [...]


I love this. (Via Metafilter)


I’ve been enjoying the results of Nedroid’s response to a challenge to draw 200 bad comics. Perhaps inevitably, he failed; nothing Nedroid does is bad. You’ll enjoy these too. Check them out.


Previously, I referred to a bizarre situation that I didn’t really understand. Now I’ll elaborate.
Yesterday, ensconced safely in my room while Toula was talking with a guest in the kitchen, I heard her call me. I wandered out in my bathrobe to see a woman with her, whom she introduced to me. As far as [...]


Oops! I meant to write something tonight, but I got caught up playing an old-school game of SimCity. It’s a pity too, as I wanted to mention a strange incident that happened today. I don’t know what to make of it. But it’s too late tonight, so I’ll have to elaborate later.
In the meantime, please [...]


Now, I hate to accuse anyone of biting my style (I prefer to let Karla do that for me), but I couldn’t help notice something familiar about the postscript to Christopher Hitchens’ recent Slate article about the decline and fall of Conrad Black who was found guilty Friday on charges of mail fraud and obstruction [...]


While walking home once, I passed one of my neighbors, who was in front of his house with his two dogs. I’d never met this guy before; when I say he’s my neighbor, I mean it in a broad, two-streets-over sense.
Nevertheless, as I approached him and his loitering dogs, he smiled, nodded, and said hello. [...]


Another video for you. And a science lesson!


I was originally just posting YouTube videos as a means of supplying some sort of token content in test posts. Now I’m posting YouTube videos because I just like posting YouTube videos on the weekend. Here’s a little slowcore for you: It’s Mojave 3 with their lovely “Love Songs on the Radio”. It was my [...]


“There are a lot of things I don’t miss about working there, but I like a lot of the people. Not you, but a lot of the other people.”
“I do a lot of things in a disturbing kind of way. You should see how I eat a banana.”
“I was only kidding about marrying you for [...]