Month: March 2004
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dan examines the latest in air-o-NOT-ics
The dumb fact of it all is that I’d never been so excited to travel to an airport in my life. For what seems like the last fifty times I’ve gotten on a plane, it’s always been to travel to some westward ho! location that takes some four to six hours to get to and…
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Winners and Losers
Ever since I lived in Austin, where my friends really don’t like to go thirty full minutes without gambling on something, the Oscars have turned into a betting game. We vote for every aired award, adding two tie-breakers (number of minutes of broadcast and most inappropriate speech (last year was “most pretentous”, and it caused…
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legion of boom
It’s a very thin line between “Ow. What is that? Should we evacuate? I think there’s some kind of hazardous waste and that’s the alarm. We should get out of here.” and: “I totally love this new Crystal Method song.” “Is that a bomb threat?” “No. Track two.”
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grr DON’T TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN’T DO, DAMMIT. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Dammit these days when I spend too many minutes in a row reading the news and reading blogs, realizing how the world appears to be spinning backwards in order to turn back time faster and faster until the white man rules supreme again it just gets me all pissed off. What the eff is going…
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Gilmore Girls Recap
Scene in a Mall: The amount spent in this episode alone, from Luke to Emily, might be close to fifty thousand dollars. Wait, that didn’t even include Lane’s first and last month’s rent plus deposit. Wow. It’s a pricey hour, as Emily has a million-dollar breakdown near the Manolos, and Lane makes her first steps…