nowhere, man
i recently joined the goodreads.com website, and highly suggest you do so as well, my book-loving friend. whoever “you” might be. but i’ve decided to start posting my reviews from there, here. like so: “nowhere man,” by alexsandar hemon sad. if i had to review the book in a word, that’d be it. but, like […]
dude, where’s my car company?
they’re going to kill my pirate ship’s maker? wtf? did saturn start making cr*ppy cars when i wasn’t looking? last i checked, my SL-1 was still hummin’ along fine at 100k+ miles. and it’s been getting the kind of fuel efficiency for 10 years now that new models are crowing about right now. and i […]
so, what happened at school today?
it’s common practice, in the course of bumping into friends you haven’t seen in some time, or while attempting to make idle chatter with that attractive person you’ve just met and are awkwardly trying to impress, to ask a person or group of persons “what’s new?” this query can be posed in any of a […]
travesty of justice is about right
my firsthand experience with chicago police officers has been, mercifully, limited. really, aside from the one time they mistakenly thought i was an auto thief, pulling me over and descending upon my own car swat-style, with guns drawn – they’ve pretty much left me alone. i’ve had a couple bogus tickets stuck under the windshield […]
when counting crows was popular
last night i was having a debate with myself. strangely, it went unresolved. but john mccain declared himself the winner before it was over anyway. regardless, the issue at hand was whether “recovering the satellites” was actually a great record, or whether it was just a good record that i associated with an emotionally-charged part […]
because i’m the decider, that’s why
accountability for our schools? absolutely. accountability for the $700 billion we’re going to take out of your pocket? maybe not so much.
like christmas – for nerds (pt. 2)
how crazy is this? the second website giving you free books (printed this time) that i’ve come across today. this one comes courtesy of a friend, who has offered a little background on how it came to be: “an author had a contract to write a book for a commercial publisher. the author wrote a […]
like christmas – for huge nerds
i stumbled across a site this morning, quite by accident, that lets you download free eBooks. johannes would be proud. i, however, am totally geeked.
this is not a rhetorical question
this morning on the news, i heard that oil dropped below $100 a barrel(!). this afternoon on the northside, i saw a couple gas stations still selling the “cheap” formula for $4.49 a gallon. why is it that the price of gas reacts immediately to bad news about oil production, but not to good news? […]