On Saturday mornings, I tend to get sucked into all of these home improvement shows on HGTV. It takes much less effort to watch other people fix up their houses on TV than to fix up fix up your own. What I’ve noticed through the years of watching people remodel their houses while I ignore my [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Typo Denial
I’m an editor, and I’ve been working in publishing for about 20 years. I share an office with another editor whom I’ve worked with off and on almost all of that entire time. So we were talking today about the publisher where we used to work and how the quality went down after they were [...]
Baby Butt Crack
I picked up Mexican food at a taco shop on the way home from work the other day. There was a laundramat a couple of doors down from the taco shop. There was this little boy about 18 months old playing outside the laundramat. Now, toddlers tend to be sort of pudgy, and this one was pudgy even by [...]
Brideshead Revisited
When I’m driving and stop at a light, I always look over at the people next to me. You never know. It might be a cute girl. The other night I was stopped at a light and I looked over. It was a girl. And she was cute. Just one thing. She had a hairdo [...]
I Hate Edited for Television
Who the fuck died and made you Grace Kelly?!
Build Me Up Buttercup
In the car, I always plug my iPod into the car stereo. I have an iPod Shuffle, so I try to rotate the songs, fairly often, since I can’t fit every song known to man on the thing. Right now, I have a mix of songs. About half are weird covers of well-known songs. About [...]
Philias
Sometimes, I wonder about words. Two words, hemophilia and pedophilia. Hemophilia is a bad thing. Pedophilia is a bad thing, but in an entirely different way. If you had hemophilia, you could start a charity to pay for your treatment. Pedophila, probably not.
Half Time Show
It’s Superbowl Halftime, and I just changed the channel back from the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet to see Bruce and the E Street Band have just taken the stage, and I’m thinking, “Does anybody miss Up With People?”
Yeah, me neither.