archives for July 2006
the remeron is here! the remeron is here!
Monday 31 July 2006 | I like a cookie
And you know what’s even better? The Canadians sent me three months’ worth and only charged me for one month. And am I going to say anything about it? Noooooo…. So I now have 90 tablets—that’s 180 days’ supply! And that’s assuming I take it every day! Which I don’t! Okay let’s just calm down. [...]
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postscript
Monday 31 July 2006 | I like a cookie
In trying to track down the Arthur Danto joke so you don’t think we made it up, we discovered other, more interesting things: first of all, when you Google “nietzsche jokes,” you get an eye-popping number of useless hits (365,000, to be precise); second, thank goodness all that syphilis nonsense is finally getting laid to [...]
musing on the purpose of unreliability
Sunday 30 July 2006 | I like a cookie
Our fallibility manifests today first in an extremely material form: it’s time for the annual host swap (always pinching pennies, we are, here at the Un—and $59 is better than $99). So we’re moving from Bluehost to Dreamhost. Next year it’ll be Toasthost, or Posthost, or Posthaste, or Posttoasties, or God knows what; but all [...]
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it’s time to get serious about links
Saturday 29 July 2006 | I like a cookie
With, you know, maybe just a cute picture or two. Such as this, from a survey I received yesterday in the post. Well, the plates we collect mostly to put the fettuccini on; coins in order to do the laundry, I guess; and as for villages, it just got so they were taking over the [...]
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apocalypto hypocritus
Friday 28 July 2006 | I like a cookie
In today’s gloating entertainment news, just reeking of schadenfreude: Gibson acknowledges that “I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I drove a car when I should not have….I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person. I acted like a [...]
five east texas jokes = five too many?
Thursday 27 July 2006 | I like a cookie
The owner of a golf course in Lufkin was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help. He called her into his office and said, “You graduated from the University of Texas and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how [...]
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when they show you who they are,
believe them the first time
Thursday 27 July 2006 | I like a cookie
excerpts [taken long, long ago, at a university far, far away], from Richard Elllman’s biography of James Joyce: • “Dante Conway [Joyce's aunt] reminded James that if he played with Eileen he would certainly go to hell, and he duly informed Eileen of his destination but did not cease to merit it. Hell and its [...]
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even wendy’s acknowledges the apocalypse
Wednesday 26 July 2006 | I like a cookie
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the world’s least-open drugstore
Wednesday 26 July 2006 | I like a cookie
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go grandma! there’s hope for us all, part I
Tuesday 25 July 2006 | I like a cookie
From Carol Queen’s new blog, courtesy of Good Vibrations. An old old woman (I guessed about ninety years, at least) who shuffled around the store for a very very long time. Every once in a while I’d see if she needed anything, only to be shoo’ed away. Finally, in front of the vibrator wall, she [...]
