Uneasy Rhetoric

We always knew that presidential candidates and similar public figures could kill their careers with one off-center remark because someone, somewhere, would take it seriously. This is why campaigning candidates are so boring. But now, apparently, even if you are a D List celebrity like Ken Jennings or Melanie Martinez, you’d best consider parody completely [...]

A twenty dollar ticket and a five dollar coke. I wrote that. In fact I wrote a whole poem, rap-style, called “The Three Stooges of Land Development.” I wrote in back in 1987 or 1988, when the Renaissance Tower (you may know it as the “Darth Vader” building, but I used to say it looked [...]

Off topic, but I’m a big fan on the TV show House. I’ve yet to figure out why I am so into a show about a man who embodies pretty much every trait I hate in a supervisor — I could never work for the guy and I feel for the other doctors. Furthermore, I [...]

Language Log reports on the Slut-o-Meter, which allows you to calculate a slut value for any given Google search, based on the number of results returned with Google’s safe search filtering on versus off. The higher your number, the lower your slut value. For example, the search term uneasy rhetoric (no quotes) returns 13,833 results [...]

Tonight we had another wine tasting. This time, we tried seven chardonnays, six from the bottom shelf at Trader Joes and one ringer. I’ll admit two things: we didn’t chill the wines, and I’m not a big fan of chardonnays to begin with. Still, surprisingly (or not), the 2-buck Chuck chardonnay was the fave. Pictures [...]