The best foreign object I ever saw used in a wrestling match was Mad Dog Vachon’s prosthetic leg, which was once wrenched off as he sat at ringside during a pay-per-view and used as a weapon. Reminiscing about this earlier reminded me of a party I once hosted.
In the Case of Eric’s Lost Underpants, I [...]

Saturday Night Live came back this weekend with its first show since the writers’ strike, a strong effort since the writers hadn’t had much choice but to bank their A material. You wouldn’t have guessed it was going to be a good show from the cold open, though, which was the same old political sketch [...]

When my mother and stepfather recently moved from a farmhouse to an apartment in downtown Ottawa, one of their two cats had to be left behind with the house’s new inhabitants, it being a little too feral to be suited to city life. She was telling me that things are quieter now that they’re down [...]

A good moustache is a significant advantage. For instance, the Coen brothers found Sam Elliott’s moustache tremendously useful when looping dialogue for The Big Lebowski, as it covered most of his lip movement and allowed them to redub lines at will.

If only a moustache could help me go back and change my words when I [...]

Fresh off the presses, I got the latest issue of the Queen’s Alumni Review in my mailbox today. (That wasn’t a dangling modifier; I don’t know what I was doing on the presses, and they were right to make me get off them before I got hurt.)
I opened it up, and lo, there was a [...]

As I mentioned in the footnote to the last post, my phone was busted for two weeks, and I didn’t even realize it. That makes me sound like just the pathetic shut-in I’d been talking about earlier in that post, but it’s simply that I pretty well do all my communication through e-mail and IM [...]

Remind me to submit this idea to the Consumerist so I can be famous like my friend Sofi:
I figured out a way to get telemarketers off your back when they try to get you to change your long-distance plan: Just tell them that you don’t have anyone outside your area code to call. For best [...]

A couple weeks back, I was cruising around the A Special Thing forums and was inspired by the Q&A threads in which comedians such as Louis C.K., Patton Oswalt, and Brian Stack answer questions put to them by fans. If only I were a knowledgeable celebrity, I thought, I too could have a Q&A thread. [...]

Found via Bill Simmons’s latest batch of links, this video of Joe Buck providing commentary for some of the most notable moments in sports history (inspired by his lackluster call of David Tyree’s amazing Superbowl catch) gave me my hardest laugh in quite a while.