It is your duty as an American Christian to take notice of the fact that The Passion of the Christ is available on DVD today. Buy it three times or risk perdition.
As fate would have it, the selection for last night’s monthly movie night at a friend’s home was Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Between […]

In last week’s Entertainment Weekly Fall Movie Preview in Which Fall Now Goes Through December, I read an article about an upcoming film biography of Ray Charles starring Jamie Foxx. When asked about the effect Charles’ recent death had on the direction of the film, the filmmaker replied in the article that they had not […]

things the laptop-owning world has to think about:
While the free wifi access at the coffee shop is great, watch out when the coffee shop is down the street from the movie theater. As you sit and try to update your resume in your precious, sacred free time, patron after patron will sit down in your […]

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book “On Death and Dying” and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78.
Published in 1969, “On Death and Dying” focused on the needs of the dying and offered her theory that they go […]

So:
I’m getting married. My bride and I found an item we wanted to order for our wedding made by a company called St. Louis Bride & Groom. The product by St. Louis Bride & Groom can have a customized or personalized graphic on it; one of the suggestions is a graphic of the St. Louis […]

First Communion With Gluten-Free Host Declared Invalid; ‘Jesus Made of Wheat,’ Says Church

“Waaah! Hurricanes are boring. I want my Xbox.”

What I like best about writing is not doing it. You can keep having all these wonderful and exciting ideas, and as long as you never put them on paper they exist as potential masterpieces that are beloved by everyone who has ever read them. I have created three works of genius in my head […]

JERUSALEM - Israeli prison officials are considering using jailhouse barbecues to entice hundreds of Palestinians prisoners to break a hunger strike launched this week to protest conditions, a spokesman said Monday.
About 1,600 prisoners began the strike Sunday, demanding the right to family visits and greater communication with the outside world. Organizers said the rest of […]

Kilborn to Quit Late Late Show
I understand that, behind the scenes, Kilborn was being forced out by the EPA. There had been growing concern that he was releasing toxic levels of Smug into the air, and that if this was left unchecked the risk of fraternity pledging in young men was going to double by […]

Why resist the urge to be petty? You too can build a better Bush.

While researching what turned out to be merely the baton twirler in a parade of forwards I would receive today (my friends’ hard-nosed employers can take solace in the fact that their workers are at least not wasting company time writing e-mails, only gently bobbing them along like crowd surfers at a Pearl Jam concert) […]

Toys for Star Wars: Episode III will be kicking it old school, apparently.
Hmmm.
If there’s a better phrase to sum up my generation than “packaging nostalgia,” I haven’t heard it.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Al-Qaeda is reportedly planning a high-level assassination against a US or foreign leader to disrupt the US presidential election, that will be set in motion by a new tape from its leader Osama bin Laden.
…The assassination would signal the launch of more terrorist attacks involving “multiple targets in multiple venues” across the […]

This week, the Rev. Shaft writes in with a brief meditation on loss and redemption:
“I wanna talk / of a city they call Buffalo / at zero degrees below / it’s too damn cold and funky (pass the joint)”
So misunderstood Rick James was. I don’t think anyone really understands what we’ve lost this past week. […]

…they’re replacing the AmShack!, the Post tells me. (Come for the information; stay for the columnist’s forced folksiness.)

Normally at this point during a presidential campaign, 20 to 25 percent of registered voters declare themselves “undecided” when polled. This year, the number of undecided voters has been as low as 5 percent in some polls. People know what they want, they know it enthusiastically, and more than ever the Other Side is really […]

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we.”
-President Bush, in a speech this afternoon
(thanks to Shruti for the lay-up)

I imagine all of us have come across sig files online? The bon mot or inspirational quote that your friend has at the bottom of every e-mail he sends out? Right. Well, below is the sig file appended to my uberboss’ professional correspondence:
Saving thousands of organizations, hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, by tuning […]

My girlfriend is more or less a home video person. She likes a night at the movies as much as the next girl, but perhaps wisely sees the moviegoing experience as unnecessarily expensive and rarely worth braving the crowd of 24-karat a-holes you often end up sharing the experience with. My side of the debate […]

In other news, I recently discovered my jimski.net e-mail accounts have a spam filter that is not attached to my eyes. In the early days of my AOL-hosted journals, I was a reasonably-priced feedback whore and dimwittedly posted dozens of my e-mail addresses on every page of the site so that young people could tell […]

You may have noticed this site going up and down like a jolly carousel recently. Sorry about that. Blame SBC. I do.
For everything. Lost keys. Ants at my picnic.
For the last week or so, for no reason I can yet diagnose, I have not been able to load this web site during the day. Only […]