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Recs Du Jour: Amusingly Screamy Edition
May 1, 2007 – 1:53 PM | 20 Comments

1. So, I go into the TN dashboard, see who’s linking to me, click on a link to some shteez called Yummy Turtle, and start reading a really long entry involving a) the author’s Hobeyesquely …

AIDSWalk Mutual Admiration Society
April 30, 2007 – 11:53 AM | No Comment

I’m proud to say that I’ve joined Team SuperSnack for the AIDSWalk this year; it’s a great bunch of people, and the team has a benefit reading coming up at (I think) Galapagos Art Space, …

Recs du jour
April 30, 2007 – 10:59 AM | 11 Comments
Recs du jour

To read: Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
To watch: The Trials of Darryl Hunt
To wear: MAC Splashproof Lash; Aerosoles …

The most elegant and colorful sport
April 27, 2007 – 8:50 AM | 6 Comments

Lance Mannion, in the midst of discussing David Halberstam:

One of baseball’s great beauties is that it is played at the speed of a human voice’s ability to keep up. It’s the only team sport that …

Brothers and Sisters recap
April 20, 2007 – 8:39 AM | 8 Comments

“Kevin accepts that as the truth, although he still wants nothing to do with the blind date on the merits (‘I don’t like your friends’), but it’s obvious from outer space that she’s lying, which …

Daily round-up
April 19, 2007 – 8:21 AM | 8 Comments

Lots of meetings/running around/hucking my laptop hither and yon today, so I may not have time to update properly. Just in case, a few goodies to hold you…
My recaplet of the AI results show (and …

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!
April 12, 2007 – 10:12 AM | 24 Comments

I’ve recently gone back to recapping on Television Without Pity — on a show that’s in progress right now, so I had to start cramming episodes frantically to get caught up.For the last week, I’ve …

Hee, “fungoes”
April 9, 2007 – 8:20 PM | 2 Comments

It’s a funny word.   And now it’s a blog also.

Baseball Linksplosion!
April 3, 2007 – 1:28 PM | 8 Comments

The only semi-suck thing about the beginning of the season is all the off days, so I’ve put together a little list of the baseball/sports blogs I check regularly in case, like me, you need …

Giving Is Such Sweet Sorrow
December 4, 2006 – 11:46 AM | One Comment

I can’t seem to get any holiday-shopping momentum going this year. I’d like to blame the weather, which had lodged itself firmly in t-shirt territory until two days ago, but it got cold Friday night …