The Blog: February 25th, 2008Blogs were invented by IT types who wanted to keep in touch with their IT type high school/college friends after moving to faraway places to take IT jobs. They’d post about their cats’ pooping habits and the unapproachable cute girl who works at the laundromat. In the spirit of what these were initially supposed [...]
The Blog: March 10th, 2008
I hadn’t planned on commenting on news stories here, but having just read the early report on our Governor’s involvement in a prostitution ring a day after watching The Wire series finale, it seemed appropriate, for some reason, to write about politics.
I hope he’s a pimp! With hoes! He probably ordered hoes to do gross [...]
The Blog: March 15th, 2008
That Black, Blind Lieutenant Governor Sure Plays a Mean Pinball
—Pete’s Candy Store Trivia Team Name Coined by ?
Now that’s funny. I wasn’t even at trivia last week but heard about the team name later that night, [...]
The Blog: April 4th, 2008
In the interest of piggy-backing off my article “Automobile Facts,” I’ve written up some (true!) Sint Maarten/Saint Martin facts.
Fact 1. Some residents of the small tropical island speak Papiamento, an amalgamation of Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish that sounds exactly like what you’d hope a tropical island’s language would sound like. The ATMs there ask if [...]
The Blog: April 8th, 2008Raw, real-time reporting from the couch bureau, edited during ad breaks.
12:11: Starting late, I come in at the scene in which Robbie, the Middle Eastern cop, shows Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley) his cruiser’s nitrous tanks.
12:12: Mike’s thumbs get stuck in the hood of his car.
12:13: Mike puts an elderly couple’s groceries in their car, gets [...]