Beta Testing: The Flu2.0 (Part I)

I have the Flu. I am far sicker that I can remember ever being in my adult life, except maybe the time I got food poisoning from the $20 all-you-can-eat sushi place. That was pretty bad too. Regardless, at least the food poising stint only lasted two days. This particular flu is barreling full steam [...]

Postal Snowman

I found this cool little guy whilst on my lunch break last week, around 26th St. & Park Ave. South.
A miniature snowman built atop a US mailbox, sporting US dimes for eyes and a crown.
Apparently, Frosty is updating from the corncob pipe and the button nose. Bling-bling, bitches.

At the end of the day, on my [...]

LOST : Episode, “Eggtown”

WARNING: SPOILERS.
Last night’s episode of LOST was pretty good, but at the same time, I’m pretty sure I misinterpreted the ending. Severely.
My girlfriend walked out of the room at the very end when Kate walked into her child’s bedroom, when we saw Kate’s son for the first time. As soon as they showed the first [...]

Romantic Vacation Cancelled: Instead, IHOP

My girlfriend had been talking about taking a mini vacation. The plan was to walk across the George Washington Bride to spend a nice weekend at the Fort Lee Hilton (now Doubletree). They have good restaurants, a fitness center, heated indoor pool, a nice lounge, excellent mattresses, etc. Oh, and a bar. Very important.
While discussing [...]

Things I Remember: The Story Of Last Night, According To A First Person Narrator Who Doesn’t Really Remember Much About Last Night

I met some people at a bar. We drank. The people were good. The drink was good.
We went somewhere else, some Japanese thing where you sing popular songs, I don’t know.
I sang a George Michael song. The bathroom had a lot of vomit in it. I vomited because when I see vomit, I vomit. I [...]

Announcement: Do Not Eat The Blue Candy

I have watched every season of American Idol, ever. However, in the interest of full disclosure:
In the past, I have tuned out after the first-round auditions, the beginning where they show the really bad auditions, the people that make me laugh until I cry, rewind the DVR, repeat. Then I pause my DVR and shift [...]

Scambaiting: A Websport

I used to have a cat. A cat, and an apartment with mice. When my cat would catch a mouse, she would stand over it and bat it around, back-and-forth, between her paws for hours. Not killing it. It was only after Circe batted every drop of entertainment value out of the mouse, after the [...]

Dew This

This photo pretty much blows my mind apart. It’s a dew covered bug.
Consider the scale, and how the shape of the proverbial dewbead(?) magnifies that which upon it sits.
(thx, kottke)

Years In The Making.

I grew up in Oklahoma.
When the Clinton administration took office, when Hillary Clinton first stepped into the international spotlight, immediately, my mid-western republican family adopted a certain jovial distaste for Hillary. It wasn’t mean-spirited. It was a sort of banter, a familial battle of a wits, year after year, making random Hillary jokes, simply, whenever [...]