Good Grief!

His dastardly plan to make us get pagers has succeeded, and I am pissed. Extremely pissed. However, the pagers have little keypads, and they can send e-mail. So…once I’ve figured out mobile blogging, expect real-time boss-across-the-hall updates—live from the mind-numbing meeting du jour. No more spending 38% of the day not […]

Once again, we present an excerpt from the weekly market report. The report, written by Ken Klein, co-owner of Klein’s Market in Fairmount, Philadelphia, is from yesterday’s Art Museum Area Home News. I will absolutely go to Klein’s next week and request permission to keep doing this.

Asparagus: harvesting continues in northern California […]

Public service announcement: Philadelphians who missed Bubba Ho Tep at the Prince in February can see it this weekend as part of the Bryn Mawr Theatre’s midnight movie series (what? no link? Sheesh. Call 610-520-7373 for details).
In other exciting news, the DVD will be available on May 25th—you can pre-order at Amazon.
Bubba […]

An astute reader added some commentary to Tuesday’s water fountain art review:
…considering it is a signed receptacle of water with a drain, it may be a homage to Marcel Duchamp’s urinal (Oh knowledgeable blog mistress, please find a photo of the infamous urinal, 1917, and paste it in).
She’s right–I overlooked the Duchamp connection! Probably […]

He is no fun lately. All he does is go to meetings. When he’s not in meetings, he goes to his office, closes the door, and tries to catch up on the work he can’t do when he’s in meetings. In a desperate ploy for attention, I stole the little nerf football […]

An e-mail from my friend Sassy J:
Beck,
Would you continue to date someone who writes in the font below?

It’s too late—I’m already having a date with him tomorrow. But—the font! Help!
Good question, Sassy. This guy obviously has some kerning issues. Does the lack of space between his letters indicate an underlying insecurity? […]

Another silly grammar quiz–and this one’s wrong! The quiz promotes Lynn Truss’s (not this again) book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and claims that the following sentence requires a comma:
Of course there weren’t enough tickets to go round.
A difference between British and American English? A comma is optional after a short, introductory prepositional […]

In celebration of the spring weather, today’s arts pick is an outdoor installation. One’s natural tendency is to decipher the image being presented. Do the bold, yellow strokes represent an abstract piece, or is there some underlying symbolism (perhaps the artist’s initials)?
This question is irrelevant. Far more important are the placement of […]

Recent dramas unfolding on the internet:

Blogger steals woman’s copyrighted photo and uses it as her background image. Unbeknownst to blogger, image owner changes the picture. Personally, I would’ve chosen something more subtle, but still a genius idea.
Man is perturbed because wife hates pubic hair on the soap. Hatches grand plan to put […]

Philadelphia’s Friends of the Free Library held its annual big book sale this weekend. Hardbacks $2, paperbacks $1. If you have the patience to dig under piles of DOS for Dummies and
!!! Holy shit, I was just about to mock the Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness. I picked […]