Just As I Thought

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.

Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander

Oh, boy. I thought that I’d be transitioning to a bash-the-democrats milieu once they took power, but I’m still laughing at the hypocrisy of the Republicans. Now that Nancy Pelosi has decided —  [more...]

On the Board

Cramming for the test

Ah, how sadistic the Multifit program at Kaiser can be: I am scheduled to have a cholesterol test today. Days after New Year and Christmas. A month after Thanksgiving. A period of time that saw me slide right off the  [more...]

2007: The Year of Glitches

Happy New Year, and welcome to my first consumer rant of 2007! Woo hoo!! Of course, the first rant must be reserved for Comcast. They recently sent a firmware update to my DVR — and of course, you can’t do  [more...]

The New Colisseum

I expect that at any moment, cable news channels will begin displaying a countdown clock, ticking off the minutes until Saddam Hussein is put to death. I’m not a big fan of the death penalty, not specifically for  [more...]