Sometimes, when you are having a very bad weekend or are in grim spirits, it can do you immeasurable good to know that the things you find odd or crazymaking are experienced by other people. For a moment or two, you have the solace of knowing that We Are All In This Together.
With that in […]

Somebody besides me noticed!
I love it when these things happen and the people responsible say, “Well, we do a super hero TV show, but I have never opened a super hero comic book. I have no prior experience in the genre in which I work.” Well, then, it’s a good thing you don’t work alone.

Did Saint Louis University sell its soul, and if so, how many times?

They’re cutting off all my escape routes!
It’s not just an aversion to change. It’s not. Everything was fine the way it was.
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Sighted by Bill Michalski on his travels, this poster raises vastly more questions (and gorges) than it answers. Somewhere, someone was eating a taco and thought, “this is good, but I wish it was also a chili dog.” That this is sold in the same venue as cheap alcohol is no accident. What must it […]

I try to make an effort to give things the benefit of the doubt, but I recognize that making an effort shouldn’t be necessary in the first place. I don’t think of myself as a particularly open-minded person. That’s especially true when it comes to the People’s art; as I get older, I find myself […]

Act I of this episode of This American Life, in which John “PC” Hodgman talks about what it’s like to be his weird kind of famous, is delightful. Now you know; get it while it’s still available.

When you try to order pizza from Pizza Hut now, no matter which Pizza Hut you call, you are routed through a call center.
Seriously. Pizza tech support. It’s like the bank; you never talk to the people who will actually make or deliver your pizza.
“Thank you for calling Pizza Hut, your call may be monitored […]

I don’t know if I’m naive, or insensitive, or sheltered or hateful or go to klan meetings in my sleep, but I cannot believe I am still hearing about this Don Imus thing.
By no means do I mean to say that it was great of him to call college women “nappy-headed hos” because they won […]

We recently bought a digital camcorder, and while it’s ostensibly for home movies there is absolutely no excuse for me not to be doing something like this every day.

I was reading in a recent edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the Galleria shopping mall has instituted a chaperone/curfew thing, and they have highly publicized it in an attempt to more quickly go out of business.
I say this not because I think unsupervised teens spend mad mall money; in fact, I imagine teens […]

You haven’t heard from me for a while because, until recently, I have been in the Happiest Place on Earth.
Well, no, not the East Side. The place that’s trademarked “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Walt’s place.
If I had to go to Disneyworld for every vacation until I died, I don’t think I’d have any problem […]