Riddle me this, music lover: why is it that Sir Mixalot’s “Baby Got Back” is the go-to kitsch camp rap song, heard in everything from broad comedy soundtracks to Target kids-back-to-school ads (look it up!), but I haven’t heard that as-catchy and easily more ridiculous song about Daisy Duke and her pants for fifteen years? [...]
Monthly Archive May 2006
On Take Your Kids to Work Day at my office, visiting kids were welcomed by a folding table covered with donuts, cookies, sandwiches, sodas, and pizza. The folding table and the wall behind it were decorated in a tropical island theme, and a small stereo played Jimmy Buffett and Beach Boys music for every moment [...]
The border is not where I left it: the 9-hours-each-way road trip to Minnesota we intended to take this weekend turned out to be closer to 13 thanks to the unexplained rebuilding of Wisconsin. I can only guess that all the construction was due to some kind of great flood, as every car we saw [...]
Recently, my wife and I realized a lifelong dream of ours: we cleaned out our two-basements-made-one. Both of us had long been planning to go through the decades of boxes accumulating downstairs when we had a free moment, in much the same way that we have been planning to go get cheap Microsoft stock when [...]
effing and jeffing:
UK colloquialism
Using obscenities/expletives, usually in annoyance.
If I ever begin publishing under the pseudonymous guise of a bad 60’s comedy team, that will be the team’s name.
On a related topic, I can’t believe I have procrastinated buying this book for so long that it’s gone out of print twice. I read a couple of [...]
We were just talking about the origins of this word on Saturday. I understand there’s a cultural divide there, but honestly… you were already named Doody, for pity’s sake. Have mercy on your children, will you?
The teachings of Jesus Christ outlasted the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Crusades, the Enlightenment, and the War on Christmas. They will probably, probably survive Tom Hanks. Even Tom Hanks armed with an Akiva Goldsman script.
Everybody settle down.
Although I do agree that Dan Brown is in league with Satan, he’s more of a contractor [...]
Local scientists are putting their brains to good use at Washington University: devising a “dipstick” that can be used like a coffee pregnancy test, detecting on the fly how much caffeine is in your beverage. Such a tool will be invaluable for you paranoid types who think the waiter is poisoning your much-needed decaf. I [...]
I. wearing the blue trunks:
NEW YORK – After telling an audience that young people today “think work is a four-letter word,” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she apologized to her daughter.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to convey the impression that you don’t work hard,’” Clinton said Sunday in a commencement address at Long [...]
If the NSA has been secretly logging all the domestic calls they can, does that mean they have a record of every American Idol vote ever cast and who cast it? I don’t really know why I’m asking. I’ve been thinking lately that– in the interest of fighting the freedom haters, of course– it’s only [...]
The seven minutes of X-Men 3 that they wanted me to see, along with those few minutes that made it into youtube for a while last week, have reinforced grave concerns. Not Darfur grave, but enough to make me drag those comics boxes back under the futon for a while and respond to all Kelsey [...]
I was delighted this morning to hear that the FBI has set up a web site where average citizens can report government corruption. “If you come across evidence of public corruption activities,” the site says, you can just e-mail the FBI a tip.
Anonymously.
So, my question is this: how many tips will they get (from people [...]
While my laptop never crashes, do you know what does? Do you know what I do have that flakes out on me like it’s a feature? What is in fact not working for me right this minute, as if it reads my site?
never mind, iDicks:
“You know, now that this new Boot Camp software lets you run Windows on a Mac, it almost doesn’t matter which system you own. My next computer might well be an Apple… oh, wait, no it won’t; Apple are still a bunch of complete a-holes.”
I’m trying to think of another product that advertises [...]
one thing that did not make getting online worthwhile: opening cnn.com for the first time in six months (because why bother anymore, really?) and reading “Has the Kennedy curse struck again??” The premise seems to be that bad things always happen to Kennedys, that family that is richer than God’s sponsor’s president and has ruled [...]
I don’t even care about baseball, but things like this make coming online worthwhile.
I started to reply here, but then it got too long.
On Spidey, his duds, and his him-ness:
New costumes come and go in comics. When New Coke came out and then quickly went away, conspiracy theorists following the cola wars posited that they screwed with the classic just long enough to get people talking again; that’s [...]
If translating the national anthem into Spanish will bring the republic to its very knees, someone really ought to tell the State Department.