Good Grief!

Approximately four more hours before I ditch the soulless office park and get ready for the great outdoors. Before signing off, however, I must tell you many important things.

These songs can turn you gay! Thanks to secret comics for directing me to the Weekly World News, because I don’t already subscribe to enough stupid feeds.
In […]

In all of the recent brouhaha about judicial filibusters and nuclear options and ambiguous compromises, it has come to my attention that no one actually filibusters. Apparently, the mere threat of a lawmaker reading the phone book for hours on end is enough to make the opposition retreat. Pretty weak, wouldn’t you say?
I, for one, […]

If you’re a young, urban dweller looking to buy your first home, this whole housing bubble thing is completely fucking annoying. Thanks a lot, Alan Greenspan. Not being able to afford the yuppie neighborhood where you currently pay rent, realizing what a dumbass you are for not buying five years ago, and having no fixer-upper […]

A year after signing up for the Amazon Associate program, I got my first gift certificate for ten dollars! That’s amazing, considering that my Amazon links were buried on a semi-secret page. Thanks to everyone who bought stuff. That is cool.
To celebrate, I am upping the whore quotient and putting an Amazon […]

Unlike some Philadelphia curmudgeons, I welcome the arrival of spring with open arms (and fewer weblog entries).
Baseball season begins in a few weeks, as does the Philadelphia Film Festival. Friend Type E has promised to give me tennis lessons, and my rollerblades are ready to hit Kelly Drive. Saturday marked the first day of reading […]

Just last night, an astute friend was looking at some of my Montana pictures and noticed that this cow, found wandering around the Chief Mountain International Highway, has the marking of Pi.
Which is pretty strange. But then, it turns out that today, 3/14, is Pi Day (thanks for the reminder, Lunabomber).
Cow Pi on Pi […]

I dislike weblog entries about inane shit like the gas bill, so I hid this one in the extended entry.

To everyone who wrote to say that it’s not crazy to question a $277 gas bill: you rule. For the past several years (years, people!) the maintenance guy and the landlord have told me […]

Recently-released Arbitron and Nielsen ratings show that the Philadelphia market can no longer support a weblog specializing in phony art reviews and complaints about the resurgence of 80s fashion.
Therefore, on Friday, March 11th, Good Grief! will go off the air, and the doesthisblogmakemybuttlookbig.com domain will be turned into a male porn site. Becky S […]

Becky: Hello, is George there?
Switchboard: May I tell the President who’s calling?
Becky: It’s me—Becky S.
Switchboard: Hello, Becky! Just one moment.
President Bush: Hi, Becky. I was gonna call you, but someone hacked into the address book of my cell phone, and I had to replace the whole thing. Lost a bunch of numbers.
Becky: Is that how […]

So there’s been some talk about the Borgata casino’s crackdown on costumed cocktail servers:
On Valentine’s Day, the casino began randomly weighing its 217 Borgata Babes, a brigade of shapely and mostly female cocktail servers, to determine a baseline for each. If any gain an ounce over 7 percent of that weight, they are to be […]