When it comes to memories of my life that predate my getting hair down there, there’s precious little I recall. I owned a red bike with weird plastic plates over the spokes that I thought looked cool but made it a bitch to pump the tires. I loved pizza day […]
Continuing my long, proud tradition of reviewing movies weeks after their release date, I wanted to say a few words about No Strings Attached, which I caught over the weekend. (Before we proceed, no, I didn’t spontaneously grow a pair of meat drapes and up and go to this film […]
The only interesting part of yesterday’s game. For the record, I live and breathe NFL football. Not so much in a Rain Man, I know to which side every Super Bowl-winning quarterback hangs kind of way, but I spend most Sundays of the season beached like a hairy whale on […]
Between the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Redskins being the last NFL team to integrate and now this, the District of Columbia really has some explaining to do. Hear our tales of being trapped in traffic for 10 hours as the citizens around us peed in water bottles, drank behind […]
If you don’t live in the DC area, you may never comprehend the sheer idiocy that I witnessed during Wednesday evening’s commute, in which the region was hit with a moderate-not large-amount of snow. (We’re talking at most eight inches, or, as I refer to it, a John’s worth. Hiyo!) […]
I don’t feel very proud admitting this, but last night, I skipped watching the State of the Union address. At first, I felt no remorse about the decision, but it didn’t take long for the Tweets tagged with “#SOTU” to begin popping up in greater and greater number. And, while […]
I apologize for the title, which sounds like a line from Shylock’s “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” speech in The Merchant of Venice. An Alabama law firm is alleging that Taco Bell’s beef, well, doesn’t legally qualify as beef. (To be exact, they found it to contained […]
Yesterday’s article, “I Miss AOL Instant Messenger (“article” sounds much more professional than “blog whose third paragraph I wrote while on the john”) seemed to get a lot of people reminiscing about the good old days of instant messenging, myself included. Tons of you reminded me that there was far […]
By today’s standards, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a friggin’ fossil. It does nothing other than let people send text messages to one another, a job Gchat, Facebook and your cell phone have more than taken over by this point. But in its day, there was one thing AIM had […]