I see no Google text ads for the keyword "soothing". A customer recently asked for "McLure's book, The Medium Is the Massage." He's not the first. I mix up the author's name all the time, …
A very full weekend. Steve Schultz and I had food and watched the X-Men sequel (enjoyable, but I preferred the multiple allegories of the first film) and generally conversed for about five hours. I got …
[NEVER MIND; see update.] "Position Available: Interpreter, must be fluent in Klingon." Portland, Oregon. "There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak." There has got to …
My spiteful, stubborn tendencies put me right in Pike's camp. It's his house and he should be able to add a stoop. Intellectually I know the law wouldn't support me on the "if you don't …
I got to introduce the personable Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Crescent (an Arab-American love/food novel), tonight at Cody's. Yesterday I saw Douglas Rushkoff say such things as "I don't believe in 'homeland'" and "And they …
A conversation with SteveS yields the catchphrase "No Context. No Hype." I anticipate less persistence for this meme than I do for "case-diving," the phrase I made up for finding lost books at the bottom …
Better sites than mine have already noted The Eater of Meaning, but I especially adore what it does to pages that were already nonsense. Update: Favorite phrases scammed from meaning-eaten zombie pages:Bacon pi Attitude MistakeDespotic …
I walked along Blake Street and saw a woman in full graduation regalia. I shouted, "Congratulations!" She responded, fist raised, "Perseverance!" This is not a story, but a marker.
First: Gollum in an ad for CapitolOne credit cards. "What has it got in its wallet?" And second: will my new job have me pay a Salon Insurance Premium?
If J. Bradford DeLong is going to say that I havesmart views on why comments sections of weblogs (and everything else collective on the internet) tend to degenerate rapidly to USENET levels of chaos and …
