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
General Annoyances

Stories of the Stupid (continued)

Yesterday, someone faxed our office. They were requesting that we send them a fax back, but – as they wrote on their original fax – they didn’t know our fax number. There was also someone who we faxed  [more...]

October 14, 2003

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Watch out, you might learn something

I’m currently watching a new series on Discovery called “We Built This City.” What’s so marvelous about it is that it uses sophisticated and beautiful computer graphics to enlighten rather than  [more...]

October 12, 2003
The War with the Customer

The Style Invitational, pages 1-5

In today’s Style Invitational, contestants were asked to come up with ways to make modern life more complicated than necessary. Speaking of which, I feel compelled to point out that washingtonpost.com has found  [more...]

October 12, 2003
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Stories of the Stupid

Phil writes: I have been reading your blog for a while and am often in agreement with you on many of the issues that you take on. What do you think about this one? “BEAR ACTIVIST KILLED BY GRIZZLY” The  [more...]

October 9, 2003
Fun Stuff

How about just “Arnie?”

This amusing editorial appeared in today’s Washington Post: Fit to Print Thursday, October 9, 2003; Page A36 WHILE WE’RE ON the subject, there is one problem facing the Schwarzenegger administration that  [more...]

October 9, 2003