Archive | February, 2005

What a shitty, shitty thing to wake up to

21 February 2005

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Anybody can learn to write well. I may be wrong about that, but it’s what I think. There’s nothing special about being able to write well; what is special is being a UNIQUE writer, and (not coincidentally) loving to tell the truth, whatever that is for you. Writers of genius are utterly unique, and love [...]

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More jokes

21 February 2005

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This week, cyclist Lance Armstrong announced that he plans to compete in this year’s Tour de France. The announcement shocked many in the sports world, but Armstrong explained it this way: “The fewer testicles you have, the more annoying Sheryl Crow gets.” Tuesday, a pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker [...]

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Movies, movies, movies…

20 February 2005

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If you haven’t seen Withnail and I, be prepared for a treat. It’s a wonderfully funny and endlessly quotable tale of dissolute actors at liberty. I got it at Facets Multimedia, which is where film-lovers go when they die. Then, yesterday, I hunkered down at the Music Box (a repertory theater here in Chicago) for [...]

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White House.org

16 February 2005

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Judging from the Bush-Cheney site, I expected the White House website to be really lame. Boy, was I WRONG. Check it out! What’s up? Blarnia; nearly done now. And also the plotting of my second comic novel. And also digging out all the various things I wrote from 1987-2000. Now I must seriously ponder what [...]

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Some stray news jokes….

12 February 2005

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Thursday, police in North Lauderdale, Florida, reported that a newborn wrapped in a plastic bag was tossed from a speeding car. The baby boy was wearing a t-shirt that said, “I survived Spring Break 2005.” This week, German media reported that former Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is still receiving mail, even 60 years after his death. [...]

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Young Talent!

7 February 2005

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A young friend of mine wrote a spoof of an incredibly treacly anti-drunk driving poem that circulates periodically around the internet. I thought it was very witty. Here it is: A Ghost’s Lament, or Never Drink, You Could Turn Into A TV Set Well, I went to a party and got stoned right off my [...]

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Beatle humor in the NYT!

4 February 2005

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The link might be dead by the time I post this, but friend Ed Park just alerted me to this excellent piece of Beatle-related humor by Tim Carvell in The New York Times. “Take this bucket o’ wings and learn to fly,” indeed.

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Dude, don’t bogart the "misconception"

1 February 2005

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The Yale Daily News rips the lid off of hookah use in this article.

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