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Thanksgiving Weekend News & Notes
November 24, 2007 – 1:29 PM | 19 Comments

First of all, thanks to Tomato Casual.com for the incoming link. The site is “everything tomato for people who love tomatoes,” so if you’d care to make a lycopene hat trick in your bookmarks with …

Today’s designated time-killers
November 13, 2007 – 3:20 PM | 60 Comments
Today’s designated time-killers

“It’s a stupid name!”   “So’s your face!”
The UN free-rice vocab game, guaranteed time-suck for word-nerd know-it-alls like me (thanks to reader Smash for the tip).
The new TWoP blogs, with daily picks and random bitching …

No Thank You, Ma’am. No Thank You Ver’ Much.
November 12, 2007 – 8:11 PM | 49 Comments
No Thank You, Ma’am.  No Thank You Ver’ Much.

“They sell pugs in SkyMall now?   Sweet!   …Oh.   Boo.”
Doing a piece on the unnecessary — nay, outright wrong — shit in the SkyMall catalog is one step behind “what’s the deal with …

Monday afternoon round-up
November 5, 2007 – 6:09 PM | 12 Comments

A few short ends here, since I’ve been up to my ears all day…
Thanks to reader Bryan M. for tipping me to an update in the West Memphis Three case. The site has a clickable …

TN Fall Contest: 55
October 2, 2007 – 3:13 AM | 18 Comments

55 percent. That’s close to twenty thousand dollars. In 27 hours.
Y’all don’t fuck around, do you.
What a coincidence, neither do I. Time for another mini-prize! Let’s tackle some classroom supplies. Receipts forwarded to me for …

Cherries, 9/27/07
September 27, 2007 – 10:03 PM | 4 Comments

It’s all even in the NL East. Unbelievable. Kay and Leiter can’t get their heads around it; I have to wonder what Darling and Hernandez have to say in the Mets booth. …Well, I know …

A sign for me; a bargain for you
September 27, 2007 – 2:59 AM | 22 Comments

In the midst of a ruthless bedroom-shelving weed sesh this afternoon, I found myself confronted with a very heavy box whose contents were a mystery to me. Said contents? Girls’ Bike Club CDs. On the …

“Table the label”
September 5, 2007 – 1:00 PM | 6 Comments

Please please PLEASE let Mr. T be a judge on Project Runway this year. Pleeeeeeeease.

5 things currently annoying me in fashion magazines
August 31, 2007 – 6:41 PM | 65 Comments

The proliferation of “in” belt styles. It seems like, in ages past, you had one kind of standard belt at a time — one width. In high school, skinny belt. After college, wider belt. You …

Thanks, Chuck(s)
August 30, 2007 – 9:12 AM | 38 Comments
Thanks, Chuck(s)

 
After the great foot-flaying of Tuesday, I faced a dilemma yesterday morning: what to wear on my feet?The current wearer of the comf crown in my footwear kingdom is a pair of dollar-store flip-flops I …