Archive for humor
Snow
Well, I’ve lost it. This morning I read a weather blog. OK, it turned out to be sort of interesting, if weather has suddenly become your biggest preoccupation. For example, I learned that the last storm — which dumped a comical 28.5 inches of snow on Philadelphia — “weighed” a total of almost 40 billion [...]
Trenchant Observations on Massachusetts and Ball Boys…in Pink
There are no shortage of analyses on the Massachusetts Senate race, and I want to weigh in with my own observation: Scott Brown won because he’s a hunk in the same televangelist mode as Mitt Romney.
One key difference: Romney would never have posed in the all-together. That’s altogether non-Mormon. The flap didn’t hurt Brown any, [...]
Finally Facing [Their] Waterloo
In a shrewd concession to middle age, the Swedish quartet is apparently engaged in major rebranding. My, my!
My Birthday Blog Post (or, A Farewell to Hair-Raising Adventures)
A few years ago, I’d decided I’d had enough of being mistaken for an older man. The finishing blow was a remark I overhead by a woman selling tickets at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (home to strange and disturbing medical oddities, soon to include one of my tresses). As I was walking away to [...]
2009: A Year of Blogging Obsessively (300 Posts and Counting)
Well, I have a few minutes before family and friends return to sweep me away in a haze of New Year’s Eve partying. (Of course, with young children “a haze of partying” ends well before midnight. We can do a faux countdown with them.)
To all of the readers — regular and occasional — who have [...]
“What Happens in Vegas” (and Throughout Nevada)
It’s hard to offer any coherent commentary on Nevada, a state largely defined by the strangest city on Earth: Las Vegas. (Dubai, the U.A.E. city-state, is closing fast. In addition to an indoor ski slope in the desert, the developers of this weird place have just reaffirmed their commitment to a Tiger Woods-themed, $1 billion [...]
“All that is needed for bad fashion to prevail is for gay men to do nothing.”
The title comes from a comment to this story, featured on boingboing (h/t to D/P, one of my readers). This picture is priceless:
I love the bemused look on her face: “Now what? I can’t just leave…. And who has time for fashion with all of these homosexuals to save? Should I have put a semi-colon [...]
NOM Approves of Marriage Between Man, Videogame Woman
A Japanese man’s recent marriage to a videogame character, Nena, is reported here:
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Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage (”NOM”), issued a statement approving the union. “We here at NOM believe that marriage is the union of man and woman,” said Brown. “It’s true that the couple can’t procreate, but this marriage, [...]
Making Unfriends (Or, How to Work All of the Year-end Word Candidates into a Short Story)
How often does one have the chance to use nineteen new words in one short space? In tribute to Oxford’s announcement of this year’s Word of the Year (and runners-up), I offer this (really quite awful) short story:
I’m going to unfriend Betsy. Let me explain why.
While she was driving me to my zombie bank, I [...]
Stupid Callous Homophobic Hateful Legislation
How did she think of a phrase with just the right sound and syllable count? Enjoy: