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Archive for September, 2008

THE CORNER OF DEATH

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Right before I left New York, I noticed that the annual “street fair of death” had come to my neighborhood again, with it its questionable, rickety rides designed to thin out the population, one carnival ticket at a time.
Oh, they don’t CALL it the “street fair of death,” because they don’t care about the [...]

MY LITTLE HAMMER

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I just got to England. I’m sitting here now with my tea. I Twittered about my plane, which was called the Dancing Queen, and the fact that they played Abba on the Dancing Queen, and then the Dancing Queen got stuck on the runway for about three hours because Air Force One had just been [...]

PLEASE STAND BY FOR SHINY

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

*stumble, stumble*
Friends, it’s late.
A real blog post is coming in a few hours, sometime after I wake up and before I catch a plane to London . . . but in case you wonder what I’ve been DOING with my TIME . . .
Well, among other things, I’ve been making YA FOR OBAMA, [...]

WHAT’S YOUR ILK?

Friday, September 12th, 2008

I was having one of those days today when I forget how to take my watch off. Does this happen to you ever? You’ve taken your watch off hundreds of times, and then you just . . . forget? You pull the latch and pull it and nothing happens and you start flailing and [...]

FREE BRISTOL PALIN

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Friends, I have a serious, topical question today. We will be returning to disco balls immediately . . . trust me. I have one on my desk right now, locked and loaded and ready to go.
But let’s just talk for one second, okay? Because I am worried about you guys. And I want to try [...]