Archive for November, 2000

11.30.00

Couldn’t we all use a little John Denver right about now? We could:
Aye Calypso!
The place’s you’ve been to
The things that you’ve shown us
The stories you tell
Aye Calypso!
I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well
Right. Why am I still at work?
8:47 p.m.

San Francisco Moment:
Guy in a Jeep Cherokee passed me […]

11.28.00

Stuff that creeps me out, in order of creepiness:

Russian grandmother sells her living grandson for organ harvesting.
Japanese men are signing up for an online service that lets them woo a virtual woman over email. They must court the woman, and if they’re good enough the relationship will, ah, progress. If not, the “woman” […]

You know what’s not pleasant? Drinking at the water fountain and feeling the stream of water dip when someone flushes the toilet in the bathroom next door.

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11.27.00

I saw a commercial this weekend for an E-Z Bake Oven CD-ROM. Two girls sat side by side giggling in anticipation over the rising cake… on their monitor.
GAHHHH! First they take away candy cigarettes, then toys that spark, and now this? Excuse me, Orwellian Overlords? The whole point of the E-Z Bake oven is […]

11.21.00

When I was in college, I had an art history professor who would dock our papers an entire grade if they didn’t have titles. So I wouldn’t forget, I wrote “The Coolest Title in the World Goes Here” on my title page. Of course, I never got back to it and I turned the paper […]

11.20.00

My nephew Trevor is three, and he’s a big fan of nose picking. I said, “Trevor, don’t do that, honey. People think it’s gross.” Trevor looked up at me thoughtfully with his finger buried up to his knuckle. He said in his most earnest, explanatory tone, “No they don’t, Auntie Mawget. They think it’s yummy.”
3:40 […]

11.17.00

EMAIL MOMENT!
Characters: Friends from my college newspaper.
Subject: Finding a sugar daddy.
Excerpt (minus extraneous inside jokes):
Drew: I’ve been looking for a Sugar Mama/Daddy to support me while I finish my novel. Now, who the hell’s pulling down the most here?
Me: Extremely generous SWF seeks aspiring novelist to share mutually beneficial relationship […]

The second definition of “ineffable” is lovely: “Not to be spoken because of its sacredness, unutterable.”
9:18 a.m.

11.16.00

Amusing photos from some guy at Stanford. You�ll find more here.

2:22 p.m.

As the friend who sent this to me notes, Sally Struthers is always good for a laugh. From Satire Wire�s Please, Help Sally Save the Dot-Coms.
With each passing day, dot-coms are finding it increasingly difficult to stay
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