Journalism is silly

When I read a sentence like this, I’m ever-so glad I never pursued that career in journalism I thought I wanted as a child: Best known as the genocidal dictator who butchered millions in his quest to unite Europe under German rule, Hitler also had a largely unsuccessful career as an artist in his early [...]

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What’s so hard about remembering Heidi?

In the last twenty-four hours, I’ve been called everything, but Heidi (Mars Girl’s real first name). The foreman of our jury kept calling me “Hailey” repeatedly. What? Do I look like I’m in the “Hailey” generation? (I guess it didn’t help that the Plaintiff’s niece’s daughter’s name was Hailey, but I think that was only [...]

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Hole in the Wall

Michael and I happened upon this show during our post-ride dinner at Fisher’s tonight. Apparently, as Google has revealed me, I missed an entire sensation with a set of YouTube videos that showed a Japanese version of this game. Of course! If only I’d known. Leave it to the Japanese–and their extremely odd sense of [...]

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Is there no sanity in the quest for beauty?

Today I’m making a new blog label called “WTF” (for “What the Frak?” of course) and I’m using it for all bizarre-o stories such as this one I was just enlightened to, thanks to TW’s webmail hot searches list–yes, the one I mocked last week. Fish pedicures?! Have we really lost our minds? I can [...]

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