Good Grief!

The current Reagan-induced eighties nostalgia has prompted Good Grief! to address a serious issue: people flipping their collars like it’s 1987.
It started innocently enough when Superwoman and I went to the god-awful-evil-super-mega-outlet mall and noticed flipped-collar dude being dragged around the Banana Republic factory store by his girlfriend. He was in […]

It is the law that everyone must write about Ronald Reagan this week. Back in the first grade—right before the 1980 US presidential election—I was a big Reagan supporter. A sample of my astute political analysis:
Mom: Stop eating big spoonfuls of peanut butter—it’s expensive.
Me: Why?
Mom: Problems with the peanut crop.
Me: […]

A little later than usual, here is Ken Klein’s Market Report. Executive summary:

The tomato market is very confusing.
Cantaloupes—now smaller and better!
Peach and nectarine prices are dropping; plums continue to be expensive.

The Market Report, by Ken Klein
Klein’s Supermarket, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia
Our Hours: M-F 8 AM to 8 PM; Sat. 8 AM to 8 PM; […]

Hey, there’s a Japanese Good Grief! And it has little animal pictures. And games! How can I compete with games? Damn the Japanese and their infernal cuteness!

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Today’s arts pick is a study in hope and adaptation. The main focus is a familiar object, a provider of amusement and happiness that connotes idyllic summer days and blissful childhood memories. The subject’s color—a cool, refreshing blue—reinforces its mission by evoking the water that fills it and provides relief to wilted urban […]

This week’s Good Grief! mix is here:

Miracle Drug – A.C. Newman (of the New Pornographers)
Curtain Calls – Old 97s
That’s Just What You Are – Aimee Mann
Will is my Friend – Devendra Barnhart
Steel Guitar – Fred Eaglesmith
Where Art Thou? – Skeewiff
Antifreeze – Asylum Street Spankers
She Loves You – The Beatles
Loaded Gun – The DT’s
Crazy – Willie […]

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Thank you for your kind e-mail letting me know that “most men think with their ancient lizard brains and will put their penises in anything with a vagina that moves and seems to be more interesting than the current vagina.”
We women are lucky indeed that men such as yourself are willing to educate us in […]

A few follow-ups:

Wired magazine’s Dating Hackers article (think coffee shop packet sniffer guy) is now available online. Scott over at Blankbaby has a related entry on dating via Blackberries.
My new favorite coffee break link (over on the left) is Octodog. For those who only like websites that sell cool t-shirts, Octodog delivers.
A long, […]

Is this a fable, an allegory, a metaphor, or just a story about people poundin grapefruits into a keyboard?
Can it be? A political weblog that does not whine or proselytize? Maybe it does, but you’ll be so busy laughing your ass off that you won’t even notice. For example:

The pie of the […]