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.

Increase your punctuation power

We’ve all had those obnoxious e-mails from bosses and other annoyances, the ones that belittle you and tell you what you did wrong. Well, now zefrank.com tells us how to cope.
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On the Board

High def, but still low brow

The absolute bottom of the barrel for news here in Washington is WUSA. This is a station that used to be on top – literally, WTOP — and was bought by Gannett. Soon after, the USA Today-ification of the news  [more...]

‘Cos I’m a geek, that’s why

Woo! The big ol’ new trailer for the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie is now on the official website, and as a good geek, I’m scrutinizing it frame by frame. For example, in whatever revision of the Guide  [more...]

Shot in the foot

You know, the new Gay.com ad campaign is very clever with it’s double entrendre; but the problem is the combination of its imagery and its stated purpose. Of course, we all know that Gay.com is the place to go for  [more...]

Knowing better

I know that a lot of liberals are very happy about today’s Supreme Court decision banning executions of under-18s. Now, I am not a fan of the death penalty, for two simple reasons: first, I don’t think that  [more...]

I think it’s called “your own pitard”

You know — well, I hope you know — that a vast amount of my blogging energy is expended on pointing out hypocrisy amongst our governmental officials; so today’s little tidbit is really gonna put the  [more...]