Good Grief!

Keeny D reports that the Good Grief! headlines on his Yahoo! page have been replaced with “someone else’s blog.” And he even sent a screenshot (click for a better view):

Well, “someone else’s blog” happens to be that of Brad DeLong, a well-respected economist and blogger. So wouldn’t it be cool if we got […]

Today he shuffled the on-call schedule to accommodate some vacations, so I am now this week’s on-call person. That would be this week. As in right now.
Therefore, I had to take the pager out of my desk drawer and start wearing it, which, like, totally ruins my pink cowgirl shirt outfit. […]

Bad news from the front of the war against eighties clothing. Dave the Lunabomber sends this picture from the King of Prussia Abercrombie and Fitch.

In other news, Keeny D reports three Fourth of July mesh shirt sightings on the Ben Franklin Parkway. Things are heating up, people. Though these developments […]

Chocolate: The Exhibition is on at Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences. The exhibit presents botanical factoids and explains the chocolate-making process, but it also describes chocolate’s cultural impact over the centuries. Not only did people shop with cocoa beans, they used the ability to grow cocoa trees as a factor when deciding […]

So I’m standing in the Whole Foods checkout line debating whether or not to get an organic vegan decadence butterscotch blondie brownie* when this girl—probably all of eight years old—gets behind me and puts her items on the conveyer belt: one medium coffee and two containers of sushi.
WTF? Is this what the kids […]

It all started with W Ketchup, a product for people who don’t want their ketchup purchase to support those nefarious Democrats:
Choose Heinz and you’re supporting Teresa and her husband’s Gulfstream Jet, and liberal causes such as Kerry for President.
As my friend Keeny D points out, buying Republican ketchup also buys you several servings of vegetables.
But […]

This week’s mix is all twang. I’m going for a theme with the song titles (hint—think triumphant return to the soulless office park):

Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys – Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Moonshine Willy – Complicated Games
The Meat Purveyors – S.O.S
Beachwood Sparks – Yer Selfish Ways
Old 97s – W. Texas Teardrops
Jim and […]

I haven’t received a Market Report in the inbox for the last week or two. I’m hoping that Ken Klein is merely on vacation and hasn’t stopped writing his column. Since I can’t share Ken’s expertise this week, all I can do is pass along my own observations. It’s a poor substitute:

Superwoman […]