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Monthly Archives: February 2010

I heart Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert has always been the most eloquent movie critic of our generation — of any generation for that matter, seeing that movies themselves have been around for so few generations in all — but, it seems, with the loss of his voice, Ebert has transcended his well-creviced niche, branching out into blogging about anything [...]

This spore only grows in one place in the world: on the shell of a single mussel attached to the bottom of the Delta Queen now steaming up the Missippi River. Let’s go…

Of law geeks (leeks?), love triangles with your lawyer, and wrongful death claims [Blog Roundup}

A roundup of my favorite posts from my favorite law blog, Lowering the Bar! Apparently, for law geeks, getting tickets to see the Supreme Court is akin to a tween getting tickets to the midnight premiere of a Twilight movie [Lowering the Bar]. Listen up lawyers! Here is the definition of conflict of interest: sleeping [...]

Food Face

Can you believe these disturbing sculptures are made out of bread??? By artist/baker’s son Kittiwat Unarrom. Other zany food sculptures.

Oh, Los Angeles

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. -Dorothy Parker, on Los Angeles Sources

How to Tick People Off (and risk death)

Ask people what gender they are Note: This is a series where I feature a selection off a hilarious list by blogger Joe Crawford about How to Tick People Off.

This bear could use some rogaine

Three bears at a German zoo are going bald. Look at those knees though! Looks like a human in a bald bear costume. Just sayin’, maybe with budget cuts and all…

Mini-Me Writes an Autobiography

By now, you’ve probably figured out that I never liked writing anything the typical way as kid. At 16, I had to write an autobiography. I, of course, decided to write it in the frame-work that I’d been abducted by aliens to, well, the first lines of my paper explain it best. Mission: To search [...]

I have a problem: an embarrassing addiction to cute animal pictures

And, guess what, there are even more pics of this rescued baby moose.

Soccer Babies

A wave of euphoria after a spectacular soccer win raises the birth rate in Spain by 50%. I think I’d be really embarrassed to have everyone know exactly what night I was conceived…