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He (Should Be Wearing) Short Shorts!

I’m going to rant for just a moment (well, just for THIS moment). I’ve just come back from the gym, and for the thousandth time, I’m wondering where the people who design clothing have left their brains. What I’m referring to is this issue of shorts. It is a medical fact (depressing, but true) that [...]

Two-Wheeled Macho-ness

I have to say it — I don’t think guys who ride scooters are sexy at all. Not that they’re riding in order to be sexy, but it goes so solidly in the wrong direction that I don’t even know what to say. I know they do it all over Europe, and it’s starting to [...]

Dropping the F-Bomb

My mother always said that my mouth would get me in trouble. This became quite apparent in the public realm when, as a waitress at the age of 23, I told my manager at the Ruby Tuesday’s “F*** you!” for deciding arbitrarily to withdraw my vacation the day before I was supposed to leave (he [...]

Happy Happy Joy Joy

I was going to post a video from Ren and Stimpy (those of you who watched that in the’90′s know who you are) and their Happy Happy Joy Joy song, but I got distracted by all the other shows I hadn’t seen in nearly 20 years, so now I’m going to skip it. Probably no [...]

City Of Thieves

I finished reading this book for the second time while I was on my last trip, and when I say I read it a second time, I mean it was so fascinating that when it was done, I turned right around and read it again. It’s City Of Thieves, by David Benioff and it’s about [...]

Are You SURE About That?

I don’t know why this still amazes me, but I’m always impressed? confounded? made a bit speechless? by the presumption of people. By that I mean, the certainty with which people have statements fall out of their mouths. You’ve heard these before — in fact, you may have even said versions of these yourself: “She’ll [...]

Putting It All Out There On YouTube

I don’t know about you, but I LOATHE hearing recordings of myself, most pictures of myself (thank God for Photoshop) and, most of all, videos of myself. We’re always our own worst critic, aren’t we? Our voices don’t sound like they do in our heads, we think we should have said it differently, or God [...]

You Can Thank Me Later

I would love to have an iPhone. I’ve only ever used Macs, Will has only ever owned Macs, and we have only Macs in the office. We’ve got the big ones for the desks, and we each have laptops. It would seem only natural to also have the iPhone. But from the moment I saw [...]

Is This Like Asking For Directions?

I’m not opposed to Valentine’s Day, unlike other people. I know people complain that it’s a Hallmark holiday, or that we should be telling people that we love them a whole lot more than on a prescribed day, but I don’t mind having one day that is a reminder, just in case your significant other [...]

Enough Already!

I kind of flipped out yesterday and threw out all of my pens. Not actually ALL of them, but all of the ones that I hated — you know, the ones that don’t write immediately, and you’re sitting there scratching at the paper, and then you lick the tip in the hopes that that helps [...]