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.

Power Diet

Remember last month when I got that $200 power bill? When I resolved to start conserving energy? Well, maybe it was because I stopped leaving the TV on when I wasn’t watching it; maybe it was my careful usage of  [more...]

On the Board

Give that man a medal

What does it mean for the Bush administration that we’ve all grown wise to their ways? One of the things they often do is send people to the wolves. Today — Michael Brown “resigned,” saving a bit  [more...]

Nature can be gross

Isn’t the internet wonderful? This morning on our walk, Diego and I came across what I thought was an earthworm, but there was something on its head. Upon closer examination, I discovered that the something WAS  [more...]

Quantities are limited

I was just taking a look at the box office for DC Shorts, and things are starting to pick up — there’s a lot of media coverage this week, and if this keeps up we’ll be sold out. So, if you’re  [more...]

From the Archives #3

This is the beginnings of a dictionary that I and a friend started to compile, circa mid 1990s. It was inspired by a person that we knew who mangled the English language so horribly that we often couldn’t  [more...]