So I got this email just now: By the time you read this, your manuscripts will have already been rejected. There’s no sense in asking me why or what you could have done differently, because I’ve already moved on to other stories. It wasn’t you. It was me. I — Awww, who’m I kidding… it was …
“Margaret?” “Yes, luv?” “Next time you buy tissues, would you be so kind as to buy the kind with the lotion in ‘em?” “And why’s that then?” “See, luv, when I get a cold, usin’ them regular tissues is kind of like usin’ sandpaper to blow my nose.” “Oh Hubert, you exaggerate so.” “I ask you, wife of mine, …
TV: Coming up next on NBC: Amnesia, the game show that tests the memory — of you! Me: Should I trust the writers of a program that couldn’t come up with a tagline that scans better, like, say, “the game show that tests your memory!”? That, by the way, is a rhetorical question.
So I changed my little blog header the other day, to read “Specializing in treckle lansing disputes”. This is, if you don’t know, a nod to Vernor Vinge’s novel A Fire Upon the Deep, wherein a posting to the Galactic Net (also known as the Net of a Million Lies) from Arbitration Arts Corporation at …
Man, I haven’t heard this song in years. It’s called “Don’t Call Me Dude”, and it’s by the now-defunct Scatterbrain.
Well-done amateur music video for one of They Might Be Giants’ awesome tunes. Enjoy. I know I did.
Here’s one more reason that I love Corner Gas: Hank, thinking he’s psychic*, tries to explain the disturbing dream he had the night before. Hank: I just, I woke up with this uneasy feeling. Brent: You ate cotton candy and pepperoni for supper last night. It’s a wonder you woke up at all. ____ * Or …
So I’ve been working in my basement for the last few weeks. This means I’ve been listening to rather more radio than I usually do. There are two music stations in town that I like, and in the car I’ll switch back and forth quite happily between “Local Town’s Best Rock” and the college station. But …
IMG_6327 Discovered in calanimephotos’s Flickr photostream. She bristled at the name. “Robin? Don’t even— Don’t even talk to me about that little suckup. Don’t even mention his name. Seriously.” Rolling her eyes: “He spent like two days on the phones, then got promoted. Now I hear he does fieldwork. What is he, sixteen? Man, let …
So there’s a provincial election coming up. The incumbent party, the New Democrats, have decided to use “Forward, Not Back” as a slogan in this election: Which makes me wonder if no one–no one–in their entire campaign apparatus has seen the Simpsons episode where Kang and Kodos run for election on Earth: I mean, really. Sometimes …