I find that a lifetime of playing video games, even games of the was-that-a-bloody-eyeball? variety, does not seem to have made me especially violent. The debate over violent video games, however, never fails to put me on the brink of a rampage. That’s why this piece made me happier than a Pac-Man at a blue […]

“The Persian Poetry Circle of North America (PPC) was established in St. Louis, Missouri…”

I just heard a meteorologist on the radio describe today as “some well-deserved nice weather.”
I’m not sure that’s his call. Deserving weather opens the door to some very weird theological areas, don’t you think?Areas best left in ancient Rome?
Does this mean I deserved that hundred-five-degree bulls***? What did I do?
I’ve already thought about this more […]

Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds — tons of radio shows, actually — available in MP3 format at MercuryTheatre.info.

While watching television this weekend, I frequently saw a new commercial for Ameriquest Mortgage featuring Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. Seeing this, I remembered the time I was walking down Washington Ave. when Mick Jagger approached and offered to give me a blowjob for ten dollars.
Well. That never happened.
But you wouldn’t have been that […]

I have a feeling that, if I were a Briton who had voted Conservative, this picture would have had me rethinking that decision pretty seriously. Possibly getting less sleep. Lots of staring at the bedroom ceiling. “Is that me? Am I really that guy?”

London Bombs Likely Simple and Homemade; Bombs Sold at Wal-Mart Cleared of Wrongdoing

It was announced today that both baseball and softball will be dropped from the 2012 Olympics. Among the reasons cited by the committee: the American softball team completely dominates the other countries, and American professional baseball players never participate (thus causing the American team to completely dominate the other countries). For some reason this reminds […]

Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 700
Attacks kill 33 in London, Blair breaks off summit
Four London Blasts Kill 37, Injure 700
-three “Top Stories” headlines taken from the same page of a single news site this afternoon
This morning I was indulging in an occasional weakness, listening to talk radio at work. I normally do this when […]

We, as a family, do not heart Huckabee’s.

I took another thing away from that Newsweek dinosaur story (which apparently affected me the way the Bible is supposed to; I haven’t talked about anything so much since they started making Cheerios with the sugar already on them). Unlike a lot of kids, the thought of giant carnivorous lizards never really freaked me out […]

I.
from “Buried Treasure,” Newsweek, 6/27:
Other researchers have been doing equally remarkable things with [dinosaur] bones. Kent Stevens, a computer scientist at the University of Oregon, became interested in the large long-necked sauropods of the late Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago. Members of this family, which includes apatosaurus and diplodocus, were assumed to be […]

fucking dog walkers
who let you use my sidewalk?
“I think he likes you!”-”Hike, Ooh,” jimski

I’m not sure I ever really got an answer to this. Though it sounds like I will soon.