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Damn Millionaires Show, Saturday 8/7/10
August 5, 2010 – 10:02 AM | 3 Comments
Damn Millionaires Show, Saturday 8/7/10

Hey, friends — The Damn Millionaires have come to town, and you should totally come out to see them play the stage at King Killer Studios (Mr. Stupidhead filling in on bass!). Also featuring Dan …

Bye-Bye, Bombers
May 18, 2010 – 10:09 PM | 47 Comments
Bye-Bye, Bombers

I’ll tell you exactly what did it.
I’d bought Bean tickets to a Mets game for her birthday, and she kindly invited me to go with her. We arranged to meet up at our seats, and …

Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 12
April 6, 2010 – 11:43 PM | 26 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 12

Leaving KC, I spotted another Smart. It took some maneuvering to get alongside it, not to mention steering in weekend traffic while taking Compulsive Waving Family to deranged new levels, but I managed it. The …

Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 9
April 3, 2010 – 2:45 PM | 13 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 9

I went back to Chao Camp at midday. AB had tried to text me to say that Mad Chao was getting sprung from the clink, but I’d left my phone at Chao Camp, and my …

Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 8
April 2, 2010 – 7:20 PM | 32 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 8

Where to begin, my friends? The hotel is as good a place as any, because The Atrium is The Weird. It’s not bad; it’s not gross; it’s just weird. I could tell, and locals confirmed, …

Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 7
March 30, 2010 – 3:30 PM | 62 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 7

I had about a half dozen different days in one on Monday, starting off at the National Civil Rights Museum. I’d forgotten Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, and the museum is on …

“Did I act wrong? Am I a bad son?”
December 22, 2009 – 12:26 PM | 45 Comments
“Did I act wrong? Am I a bad son?”

I hesitate to wade into the Shellie Ross/Madison McGraw fray — in case you don’t know the story, you can get the background here — but my boy MB at OMG! Ponies! posted an exquisite, …

Posters and vampires
December 8, 2009 – 9:16 PM | 9 Comments
Posters and vampires

From Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth:
Morrison was immortalized first by death at 27 and then by three generations of college kids who needed a poster to cover up a creepy-looking stain in their dorm …

Contest: Thanking HP
October 31, 2009 – 5:19 PM | 16 Comments

Would you like to thank HP for helping us to reach our goal?   So would I.   Candice recommends doing the following:

Our contact at HP suggests that readers contact CEO Mark Hurd via the …

Contest: Welcome to Matchdome
October 30, 2009 – 8:41 AM | 93 Comments
Contest: Welcome to Matchdome

…Okay, proud Nation.   It’s the 30th.   $275,660 right now; 1,068 of you have given to 44,801 students in the last 30 days.
Others of you have given prizes; shared and forwarded and cheerled; watched …