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September 29, 2004

happy lunch hour

Nice.

Posted by R. at 12:58 PM |

September 28, 2004

is that too much to ask?

"I want my president to be smarter than I am. I don't ask much, but I want him to be smarter than me."

Posted by R. at 10:59 AM |

September 27, 2004

tinsel tycoon

I wasn't aware MGM was run (stage whisper: into the ground) by the Merovingian.

Posted by R. at 06:22 PM | | Comments (2)

September 26, 2004

communion ... hoagies

I'm just surprised it wasn't a Starbucks.

Posted by R. at 04:47 PM |

September 23, 2004

[too many bad puns spring to mind]

"There are now close to 36,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States, according to Chinese Restaurant News, a trade publication, more than the number of McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King franchises combined."

Posted by R. at 11:26 AM |

lots of monkey on monkey action

"He was one bad monkey. And last week he was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes, inmate No. 13 at the country's only known monkey jail, where very bad monkeys are sent to live out their remaining years."

Posted by R. at 11:22 AM |

September 22, 2004

mildly inappropriate

Seems like little old ladies are always getting into trouble.

Posted by R. at 05:34 PM |

September 16, 2004

cheap

"The word 'liberty' now appears in script—as Jefferson once had written in his own hand." Jefferson's handwriting is unfortunately evocative of the infamous Mistral to my eye, at least as it's depicted on the new nickel.

Posted by R. at 12:05 PM | | Comments (1)

September 15, 2004

culture jamming

"If we saw one more poster with a fist on it, in stark black/white contrast, telling me to go fight whatever, I was gonna puke. We feel like protesting needs to be fun and have some sex appeal. We want to get younger people involved."

Posted by R. at 06:01 PM |

hilarity ensued

"Roman Vassilenko, the press secretary for the Embassy of Kazakhstan, wants to clear up few misconceptions about his country."

Posted by R. at 05:36 PM |

September 14, 2004

big surprise

"But the Pet Shop Boys' new soundtrack is decidedly ho-hum and noodly, somewhere between being at an Orbital gig where the background video has taken over, and listening to a substandard Tangerine Dream score."

Posted by R. at 11:11 AM |

September 11, 2004

barf

I just retched violently.

Posted by R. at 11:05 AM | | Comments (1)

September 10, 2004

pink is for fabs

"At first blush this might not sound profound; however, most students showed up in our lab with zero computer skills. They so desperately wanted fluorescent pink key chains that they eagerly spent hours in the process, despite the fact that Ghanaians don't have a lot of keys generally, so these objects weren't all that useful."

Posted by R. at 10:31 PM |

oh the irony

"Microsoft's E-mail-filter technology, Sender ID, is unpopular with open-source advocates but popular with spammers, who are using it to bypass other filters."

Posted by R. at 03:52 PM | | Comments (2)

critical hit

"The movie is an utterly meaningless waste of time. There was no reason to produce it, except to make money, and there is no reason to see it, except to spend money. It is a dead zone, a film without interest, wit, imagination or even entertaining violence and special effects."

Posted by R. at 12:42 PM | | Comments (1)

September 08, 2004

may we have some less, please

"Some people suggest the problem is audience fatigue. Some say it is creative exhaustion. One solution to both, several actors, writers, producers and directors of past Star Trek incarnations say, may be to stop making new Star Trek stories for a while."

Posted by R. at 02:24 PM |

yeah

Yeah. Yeah.

Posted by R. at 12:22 AM | | Comments (2)

September 06, 2004

if statistics were wishes

"The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office."

Posted by R. at 01:38 PM |

September 03, 2004

indelible

"Nobody's dog deserves to be on a stamp. That was our first thought when we heard that the US Postal Service had approved a pilot program for personalized postage."

Posted by R. at 02:17 AM |

wallets as closed as their minds

"It's strange. It's not that they're not friendly. They're always saying 'God bless you.' I guess I'm used to something more tangible."

Posted by R. at 12:16 AM |