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March 31, 2005

The Minuteman Project scares the bejeezus out of me. Isn't it obvious that someone is going to wind up dead?

11:11 PM | Comment (1)

March 30, 2005

As the page title says, someone had to do it.

03:45 PM | Comment (2)

March 23, 2005

Ew, ew, ew. If I still ate meat, that would definitely make me stop.

11:05 PM | Comment (3)

March 21, 2005

Why do I love Fat Actress? Look at this little exchange from the episode #3.

Kevyn (Kirstie's assistant):
I could go down the street and suck the dick of that record producer.

Kirstie:
Do we have to suck the dicks of record producers to meet Gwen Stefani?

Kevyn:
No, no we don't have to. I just thought it would be fun.

Kirstie:
Can I just say something? If you owned your own house, then you could give blow jobs to neighbors. But this is my house so if there's going to be any dick sucking, it should be me.

10:07 PM | Comment (3)

March 16, 2005

The comment spammers are getting to me. To the point that I came close to shutting down the entire system this morning. Yes, I'm running mtblacklist but it only goes so far. The bob@ variations seem particularly loathsome. All you frequent commenters (yes both of you) can thank the ever-fabulous and always level-headed Brian W though for pointing me to mtclosecomments. It automatically shuts down comments for older posts. And since the spam bots seem to prey on the geriatric set, hopefully it will help. From now on, you kids will have seven full days to come up with your pithy retorts before the comment field gets sucked back into the bottle in a whoosh of pink smoke.

09:28 PM | Comment (4)

March 15, 2005

Had a depressing realization over the weekend. I graduated from high school in 1980. Twenty five years ago this year for the math-challenged in the audience. A significant anniversary by most measures but here's the really sobering part. My parents graduated from high school in 1955, which was 25 years prior to my own escape from the secondary education system. The logical deduction of course being that I'm as old now as they were then. (That screaming you hear coming from the general direction of Los Angeles is probably Shari.)

02:12 PM | Comment (2)

March 14, 2005

Fat Actress is a riot. Seriously. A send up of show biz on the level of The Larry Sanders Show. If you don't have Showtime, it's time to subscribe.

09:12 PM | Comment (2)

March 13, 2005

It's one of those times when nothing would make me happier than quitting my job.

10:29 PM | Comment (4)

March 02, 2005

I'm stunned by this story. It never occurred to me to question whether there actually was a law, much less whether said law was constitutional, requiring that we show id before boarding a plane. Correct me if I'm wrong but the specter of domestic passports and routine harassment for "papers" by security forces were the types of acts that our government painted as unacceptably tyrannical when it served the purposes of molding opinion against the Soviet Union. The fact that the terrorists who flew those planes into the buildings would have sailed past this particular hurdle because they all went to the trouble of getting government-issued ids makes the situation just that much more absurd. It all leaves me with little doubt that John Gilmore is probably the most patriotic person I've heard of in recent times. I'd much rather have him on my side than the platoons of flag-waving, color-coded bozos who make up the current administration.

09:36 PM | Comment (0)

March 01, 2005

Why doesn't Jelly Belly make a doughnut flavor bean?

07:41 AM | Comment (1)