Best Christmas morning words ever spoken
It’s a little late, but I finally got around to looking at the video footage from Christmas. This was one of my favorite clips.
It’s ironic, damn it. Or close enough.
Anyone who criticizes Alanis Morissette’s song Ironic for its lack of irony is an intellectual douche bag. It’s a four-minute pop song. It need not be held up to any…
The Wizard of Oz versus Star Wars
Late last week I “stirred up a hornet’s nest” by writing a piece arguing that the reason Hasbro markets Easy Bake Ovens solely to girls is that the vast majority…
The most baffling part about the North Korean government is their inability to lie well.
The North Korean government is obviously unlike any other governing body in the world, but what I cannot understand is why they are such bad liars. While they may have…
The Flogsta Scream: Creepy and bizarre but I kind of love it.
Every night at 10:00 PM, the "Flogsta scream" can be heard in Flogsta, a neighborhood in the western outskirts of the Swedish city of Uppsala. At that moment, students throughout…
Sorry, kid. Easy Bake Ovens are pink for good reason.
Around Christmas, a little girl became a momentary Internet sensation after appealing to Hasbro to make an Easy-Bake Oven in a color other than pink or purple. Her brother wanted…
The epilogue
A reader sent this to me today. It’s a photograph of the epilogue of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, which has created quite a stir among many readers. I love…
My son is not a USB device
I do a lot of writing with my infant son on my lap. Yesterday, he chewed on the cord that connects my phone to my laptop. Unbeknownst to me, he…
So I guess there’s no practical use for the word then…
Thanks to Twitter, I have been informed that to “decimate” does not mean to obliterate or wipe out. It means to destroy one-tenth of something. Great. I've had countless times…
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