I actively have about six things I want to say in this space, things of some length and breadth and volume and… velocity. I don’t have time now, though, because I just spent God knows how long on this splitting headache redesign. The time just vanishes when you fiddle with this stuff.
(It was a nice [...]

 
It’s indisputable: Walgreens is a great place to buy cheap crap.
Based on a recent audiobook dalliance, I gather they mean that they now have copies of The Da Vinci Code in stock.
(thanks, Phil!)

“An opera star! A mountie! The Canadian Rockies!”
Up is down! Red is green! Lemon Pepsi is delicious! There is a project involving Mick Jagger I am not actively disinterested in!
Along with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the midwestern mumps epidemic, and rising fuel costs, one of the bigger problems facing us as a nation is undoubtedly the [...]

Oh…! Don’t cry, little Microsoft. If you start crying, then I’ll start crying and… here, why don’t you dry your tears on one of your gazillion dollar bills, and then flush it down the toilet? We can’t let the .00003% of the world you don’t own see you like this.

I have not yet set up a myspace page or started sharing on Flickr or deli.cio.us, but I am getting ready to join isolatr.

I mentioned recently how bemused I was by the phenomenon of protesters interrupting speeches and the heckled speaker responding that she is “glad to see freedom of speech flourishing,” but only after the free speaker has gotten his ass dragged out of the room for a beating. Well. If that bemused me, I don’t even [...]

As I mentioned the other day, the Jimski brand name is occasionally spamjacked. Junk mailers disguising themselves sometimes like to tell the innocent recipients of their mortgage deals/gibberish that the offer came from hfurbgjgoshru@jimski, which in addition to irritating me on general principle also results in me getting bounced messages back despite not having sent [...]

Someone at the Image Comics board makes a pie out of marshmallow Peeps, and I make vomit on my shoes. (The results are roughly equivalent.)
This almost routinely happens at my house, but with the genders reversed.

correct but boring: “illegal,” “unlawful”
incorrect but delightful: “illawful”
Usage: “In addition to kicking out atheists and gays, the Boy Scouts have a problem with Unitarians. Given that they take public money, this seems like it might be illawful, except no one is listening to me anymore due to my apparent idiocy.”

I feel bad for people who call me (ever, but especially) while I’m at work. Absolutely nobody is listening– I have never met any of the people who currently work on my floor, and most of them probably think my cubicle is unoccupied– but I always get like the guys on “The Sopranos” trying to [...]

TOXIC CLOUD HEADED DOWNTOWN
Leaders Reassure Public: ‘We Have No Idea What Is Going On’
Authorities were looking for the source of a mysterious odor moving from the Metro East into downtown St. Louis and beyond.
Laclede Gas officials said they began receiving calls at 7:45 a.m. from north St. Louis city about a gas odor.

Word of the Week:
Clueful
adj.
opposite of “clueless”; really in tune with what’s going down with the kids.
Usage: “Newsweek recently described the inventors of MySpace as clueful, despite the fact that it is not a word.” 
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Has a web site ever been less deserving of its address?
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It begins.

I try to be a force for good in the world. I’m concerned that if my eventual aneurysm came today, people would remember me as a cynical or bitter or negative person. This memory would be more or less accurate, but I hope those same people would reflect on how many fights they have (not) [...]

Centrist? Maverick? Hawk? Friend of Falwell?
Naughty nurse? Catholic school girl?
Any outfit you want me to wear. It’s your money. 
John McCain love you long time.

Several months ago, the president promised to fire and punish anyone on his staff found to be responsible for leaking secret information, particularly about the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, because he hates such leaks and considers them dangerous and unacceptable. This week, it came out that the Plame leak was authorized by the [...]

Short review: The nighttime sniffling- sneezing- coughing- aching- stuffy head- fever- so you can no longer rest soda.
Why don’t I ever just listen? There’s a restaurant in Lafayette Square called Soda Fountain Square; everyone I know who’s eaten there says “it’s not great, so don’t even waste your time”; I can now think of no [...]

Reposted officially to test how the site works. Unofficially… well, just look at them.

Will “Why Be a Talented Cartoonist When You Can Become a Talented Animator?” Reinhardt has added another strip to the ever-growing Calico Monkey.com. I think it’s my favorite so far. Why not go check it out? You had time to come screw around here. (It has sound, so maybe hold off during the workday.)

Rennaisance man, raconteur, and frequent movie reviewer for PlaybackSTL Joe Hodes tells me that he recently got to interview special effects legend Ray Harryhausen for the magazine/ongoing web concern.
Read the interview online, or go buy the magazine for its inevitable collectible value once Joe becomes significantly more famous.