Archive for October, 2000

10.31.00

In honor of Halloween, the best Jack O’Lantern I’ve seen in awhile.

4:13 p.m.

Stolen from the archives of one of my favorite blogs,
An Entirely Other Day:
“So there’s this over-weight 45-year-old woman
standing in line at Rite-Aid. She’s wearing
leopard-skin tights, and waiting to buy a
twelve-pack of beer and one of those backyard
Tiki torches.
And people say Americans aren’t subtle.”
9:13 a.m.

10.30.00

On the bus this morning, a little boy who was sitting with his sister started singing, “Where’s my funny bone? Where’s my funny bone?”
Actually, it sounded more like, “Wheres-meh-fonnybone? Wheres-meh-fonnybone?” But his sister must have understood, because after the obligatory moment of pretending to ignore him, she brought her fist down on his knee. Hard. […]

10.27.00

This site is crack in a little HTML vial. Hot or Not uploads photos of people and asks you to rate their looks on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m inexplicably mezmerized. With each click my brain gets heavier and duller until it takes me half an hour just to realize that I need […]

Since The Bridges of Madison County, I’m dubious when people say, “You haveto read this book. ” But I finally read The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing and it rocked. The first book I’ve read in recent memory with a heroine who was funny and wasn’t punished for it:
“No wonder I’m single,” she says […]

Top three headlines from the November issue of Martha Stewart Living:
“Organizing Pots and Pans.”
“Ironing a Table Cloth”
“Pantries of Maine”
2:42 p.m.

The bus posters for Disney’s new 101 Dalmations feature a bunch of puppies falling through the air. They have quizzical expressions, they’re posed in awkward, falling-puppy positions. Cute, I guess, but puppies don’t land on their feet. I can’t get those 101 sickly thuds out of my head.
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10.25.00

EMAIL MOMENT!
To: Me
From: A friend at work.
Scenario: He asked me to introduce someone at our awards ceremony.
Excerpt:
Hi Bryan,
Normally, I’d do anything for you, but Nov. 1 is our deadline day. That means I’ll probably be at work until the wee hours of the morning and won’t be capable of […]

10.24.00

Ha! If you haven’t seen the Adcritic ad for the Dodge Aries, it’s a good one.
9:46 a.m.

10.23.00

Someone at this ad agency is no longer employed. Here’s a brief article about what happened. Stolen from metafilter.
4:41 p.m.