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
Right = Wrong

Be all that you can be

A headline on SF Gate this morning seems so obvious: Army Recommends Death I mean, that’s what they do for the most part, isn’t it? Sort of sounds like a recruiting technique — “Can’t find  [more...]

September 2, 2006

On the Board

General Annoyances

San Jose: Capital of Salmonella Valley

Last week, one of the more interesting stories here was the reintroduction of bed bugs to San Jose. It was a top story in the paper; the claims are that the bed bugs were brought into the city by college students from  [more...]

September 1, 2006
General Annoyances

Spellng Counts

I am a proofreader by nature. I am constantly finding typos and poor spelling in advertising, on the sides of buses, on television, on packaging… there has been an enormous decline in spelling and grammar in the  [more...]

September 1, 2006
Fun Stuff

What chocoholics will do for a fix

So, recently the Mars candy company put out reward of 2,000,000 M&M candies for the safe return of Edvard Munch's The Scream, which was stolen in 2004.
And today, guess what happened?

August 31, 2006