Ordinary Language

Big Fat Dorks An article about LARPing, from a Detroit alt-weekly.

Analytic Philosophy All Up In Da Hizzy! The politics-type people are getting abuzz over the potential indictments from the Plamegate leak ca...

No, Really - Republicans Are Racist The Republican-controlled state legislature of Georgia is trying to institute a Jim Crow-era poll tax of...

Perks! I just possibly annoyed the editorial director of Time Magazine, working late in the office. Score!

When In Samaria I found myself wandering around San Francisco very early in the morning on Saturday night, and came across an abandoned cell...

As Funny As It Is True It does no good to ask the weakling's pointless question, "Is America a fascist state?" We must ask ins...

Simple. To the Point. I like it. Protesting - it doesn't work, but it sure is fun !

Too Cool For School Like most people I know, I've kind of ignored or turned my nose up at the wristband craze. It's tacky in a compl...

Life as Sex We are kind of trained by television to see progression through life as a series of episodes, culminating in a bang of a season-...

Oh, You Wacky Celebrities Pop quiz - which is dumber, David Beckham and Posh Spice naming their first child Brooklyn, after the place of con...

Remixes I highly recommend that all of you with high-speed internet connections check out this remixed trailer of The Shining . Even if, li...

Asshole Nerd Battle - Who Will Win? Penny Arcade apparently took on Harlan Ellison in a dorktastic battle royale of the wits. Shockingly, ...

And the Winner Is.... Last we heard, my choices were between being an intellectual dork or a technodork. Well, the answer has come in, and I...

Song of the Week My housing search continues to be frustrating and drive me towards wanting to get the hell out of here more and more each d...

Where Do They Come From? SiteMeter, in addition to including search results that take people to this blog (I'm the #1 result for "w...

Who Am I? Who Do I Want To Be? I went into the East Bay for the last time today to look at rooms, and came home with a dilemma of the sort t...

Coming Soon: Content! Believe it or not, kids, I've got a job. I will be moving to the East Bay Area next week and starting to work. Eve...

Mixing It Up The rise of mp3 play, along with the consistent popularity of disposible pop radio, has led to a focus on the song as the basic...

Hurricane Shithead In case you have to defend the point of how the Bush administration completely fucked up to a conservative idealogue, try...

An Open Letter To The Mainstream American Media Hey, folks. Welcome in. See, 5 years later, you all have finally realized what many of us ha...

There Was a Kids in the Hall Sketch About This I just made a phone call inquiring about a job with no pants on.

Further Adventures In Arguing I am somewhat astounded by the continuing saga of Cindy Sheehan, the rightously angry soldier's mother cam...

Adventures in Debate As I spiral deeper into boredom, I have turned to that most entertaining of boredom-relievers, the chat room. Occasiona...

Sex Link Alert! Savage Love is running its greatest hits, and he's kicked it off with what was by far my favorite Savage Love ever, the ...

Had Yourself A Ball, Prisstina? I am declaring my laptop dead. RIP Prisstina. It sure was exciting deciding to get you . Naming you was awes...

I Am Annoyed My computer is well and truly broken. This annoys me. I spent two hours last night trying to dismantle it, as I discovered that...

It's Cause The Right People Are In Charge King's Cross. Edgeware Road. The British Museum. I went to all of those places. My parents...

Well That Wasn't So Bad The danger of the family reunion was somewhat exaggerated, it seems. For one thing, most of the time we were the...

Oh Sweet Jesus I had a thought that this day might come, but I hadn't prepared myself fully for the possibilities. The other half of my ...

Pop Quiz! My romantic life has grown to increasingly seem like a Magnetic Fields song. Or perhaps album. Is this because: a) those are the o...