My performance evaluation went fine. Evidently I am doing a very good job but we still have ideas for goals and improvements. My haircut makes me look like Anjali from Alison Bechdel's strip. On Wednesday …

Matthew Yglesias tries to spend his mother's last days with her. My condolences to him.

One of the best Five-Minute Enterprises yet: Hatchery.

Leonard and I gave each other buzz-cut haircuts on Sunday. I have never worn my hair this short before. I wonder whether my scalp will darken.

I'm now basically stage-managing Heather Gold's show, "I Look Like An Egg, But I Identify As A Cookie". It'll run Sundays, June 6th through July 18th. Playgoers indeed receive fresh cookies at the end of …

I was unduly cold and harsh to a customer today. I thought something like "why can't these people follow directions? why do they do any old thing and then whine that they didn't get the …

Josh Kornbluth interviews Richard Yancey (Love And Taxes monologuist and Confessions ex-tax-collector, respectively). I guess the answer is that I missed it because I only bothered to register at the Washington Post two weeks ago.

The writer of a letter to the editor used this epithet, which doesn't quite work, in my view. Jon Stewart has had the hilarious David Cross and the "Talking Points Memorized" Thomas Friedman on The …

Bruce Sterling said, I have plants at the party. Who are there secretly and sort of organized with one another. And they aren't really made clear to the party members that they are there at …

From 9 million to 265 to 2. The winning word: autochthonous. Second place: Akshay Buddiga, who fainted but recovered to spell "alopecoid" perfectly. I hope he is all right.