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Monthly Archives: June 2008

SPAM PEOPLE

10 fake names from e-mails currently in my spam folder. Plus something I made up about each imaginary person.
1. Cecelius Xiao-Gua: Collects shampoo bottles
2. Ellsworth Tzila: Has an overly firm handshake
3. Mohamd McSchooler: Knows your cousin
4. Falkner Fenton: Just insulted your pants
5. Jehu Lancelot: Has dangerous secrets
6. Naren Mmmmmm: Should not be invited to [...]

CHAIRMAN GOLEM

I have a Chairman Golem show this Monday night, 6/23. What is Chairman Golem, you ask?
It’s so lucky you just asked that, because I’m about to explain it to you! Here! In this blog post!
At a Chairman Golem show, me and this guy named Michael Martin make up a brand new comedy-type [...]

SMURF MOVIE

In case you haven’t heard: They’re making a semi-CGI movie about the Smurfs. [link expired]
I’m going to go ahead and take a slightly controversial position on this: I think it is a fantastic idea.
When I was a little fellow, I was a Smurf fan. They were part of my regular Saturday Morning Cartoon [...]

YOUR BLOG

Hey, friends with blogs that I don’t currently link to:  Do you want me to link to you?
At the moment I only have links to bloggers that I’m pretty certain wouldn’t mind visits from random strangers.  The blogs all talk about funny stuff, and assorted cool things, and so forth.
Your blogs talk about your political views, [...]

NOTE TO SELF (re: THAT CHILI)

Hey, Morgan. You know that vegetarian 3-bean chili they sell in the employee cafeteria on Thursdays? At the “chili station” next to the frozen yogurt machine? The chili that always looks so good, and makes you think:
Hey, I haven’t had chili in a while. This seems like it will be a [...]

OH… RIGHT.

Every once in a while I figure something out that I should have figured out years and years and years ago.
A prime example:  Last night I realized for the very first time that the office supply chain “Staples” isn’t just named after a particular office supply item (staples), but also after a general category of [...]