Because Those Dudes Totally LOOK Like Hellboys

How awesome would it be if this turned out to actually be some kind of viral marketing campaign? For Hellboy 2, maybe?

I Think I Speak for Women Everywhere When I Say This

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY: George Clooney Reportedly Splits With Girlfriend
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go buy a plane ticket to Italy. Those are pretty cheap, right?

License Plates I Have Recently Seen, and Been Amused By

WHORDIE*
PUZL LVR**
ORC FOE***
*At first I thought this said WHORIDE, which is entirely different, and acceptable.
**Really? You love them so much you put them on your license plate? At the time, I thought this person had to be the biggest nerd ever.
***Biggest nerd ever.****
****In an awesome way, of course.

I Will Turn This Car Around.

You know what, Internet?
Enough.
All this time, I should have been picking up the pieces, putting them back together, but this morning, I realized that I haven’t been doing that at all — I’ve just been breaking the pieces into smaller pieces, mixing them together, blurring them, jacking them up on caffeine, and then chewing on [...]

Life Is Beautiful, and Boring

Me on IM [11:53 A.M.]: I just had the following thought: “Wow. I hope I have a few spare minutes this afternoon to organize my Firefox bookmarks.” Followed by this thought: “HOLY SHIT, I AM BORING.”
Her on IM [11:54 A.M.]: That’s OK. On my mental to-do list is to buy leather protector and buff my [...]

Holy Crap.

The New York Times actually published (a condensed, impotent version) of my letter.
This won’t change anything, except for the feeling of powerlessness I have being the slightest, tiniest bit less.

One Day We’ll Get Nostalgic for Disaster

We are questioning everything. Why we love the things we love. If this was a mistake; if that was a mistake; if the whole thing was wrong from the start. We bargain, we argue, we cry; we try and fail to make the whole thing add up. We grieve; we eat sandwiches of guilt, shame [...]

Bittersweet Saturday

I haven’t quite figured out how to describe, understand or feel about our Derby trip, but there is this: The first thing we noticed when arriving at Churchill Downs was that all the flags were at half mast, and we had no idea why. Eventually we learned that a soldier from Kentucky had been killed [...]