Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
Fun Stuff

All in a shallow ditch of water

From Lisa deMoraes comes what I am insisting should the official designations of the various “characters” in the Olympic opening ceremony: Glowing Pregnant Chick, Pythagorean Man, that ancient fertility  [more...]

August 17, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

We stand for things

In Tuesday’s Post, Dana Milbank gives us another great list from a new crop of Bushisms… … Bush delighted late-night comics when he said that our enemies “never stop thinking about new ways to  [more...]

August 17, 2004
Fun Stuff

She can light up a room with a dollop

So, I’m laying in bed, kind of drifting in and out, watching something on Nick at Nite. And I hear one of my best friends singing to me. I awake with a start, and realize that it’s the TV. Yup, Sara’s  [more...]

August 16, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Them!

Sometimes I get worked up about things that a normal human being would have no qualms about. Tonight, it was ants. I went down to the kitchen and discovered that there were ants crawling on my counter, in the sink, and  [more...]

August 16, 2004
Fun Stuff

What a witch

Just a moment ago, I was flipping through channels and caught “Bewitched” on TV Land. Endora was sitting in the kitchen complaining — as usual — to Samantha about Derwin. She was reading  [more...]

August 16, 2004
The War with the Customer

Future Canadian

Another reason to move to Canada: a television network there is going to air the entire, unseen series of “Wonderfalls” starting in October. Do you think that’s enough time to emigrate?

August 16, 2004