Print Isn’t Dying As Long As There’s Breakfast To Be Had

So, somewhere around the holidays, the Oregonian newspaper started being delivered to our house. We didn’t ask for it, we didn’t pay for it, but every morning without fail, it’s lying outside our front door waiting for me to take it in and read it over breakfast. Originally, it was something that seemed confusing and [...]

This Is Reason Enough For The Phone Book To Exist

This ad is on the back of the new Portland phone book:
There are so many wonderful things about this ad - the literal interpretation of “whistleblowing” in the accompanying image, for example - but my favorite is definitely the seriousness with which it treats sexual harrassment cases: “We’ll Teach Them What Their Mama Didn’t!” Yeah, [...]

Spin The Video Bottle

Signs that I am getting too old for the internet: Chatroulette terrifies me. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then consider yourself lucky; basically, Chatroulette randomly connects you to other internet users in webcam chat until you, or they, decide they’ve had enough and press the “next” button, at which time you’re [...]

10 Things That Dollhouse’s Finale Taught Me

#10: No-one will visibly age in the next ten years, except for the possibility of some grey appearing in women’s hair. This is, obviously, good news amongst a sea of bad.
#9: Having characters tell other characters how cool your central character is, instead of actually showing said character actually doing anything cool, is not only [...]

Take This, My Don Juan

This just in from the Department of Awesome Spam Subject Lines:

Seriously, someone has to put together a collection of the greatest spam subject lines ever written and/or automatically generated. I’d at least smile at its existence in whatever bookstore I saw it in.

Just Like The Ones I Used To Know

I’m not quite sure if I can remember my first White Christmas - the real thing, that is, not the first time I saw the movie (That was only a few years ago, and I remember being surprised by the story: What was this shit about a hotel and the war? Where’s the Christmas stuff? [...]

Jimmy Andreewson Lies

In my inbox this morning:
I love that it says twice that it isn’t a spam email, as if just saying that is enough to convince someone that it genuinely isn’t one.

Working

Too swamped by deadlines to write anything of value or entertainment for the last couple of days - I know, I know, what else is new, etc. - but I wanted to direct your attentions here for a second so you can click through all the entries, complain about my choices and most importantly, give [...]

Oh God, I Hope Many People Bought This

I mean, come on.
(From various Marvel Comics in the 1970s.)

Eat Me

So, last night I had what I’d happily admit was a very tasty quiche. For most people, that wouldn’t be a revelation; they’d have had enough quiches in the past to know that some could, in fact, be very tasty. Those are probably the same people who wouldn’t be kind of surprised every time they [...]