Even though there are 7,738 songs on Kathleen Turner Overdrive it’s not often that it’ll throw out a song that totally takes me by surprise. However, that’s already happened this morning. I hit shuffle and one of the first songs to come up was “Needy Girl” by Chromeo.
I have no idea at all how this [...]

The Times obit for Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera (Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby Doo, etc.) fame, is some fascinating reading.

A Special Box from this week’s SNL. It’s all kinds of funny.

It’s not very often that I feel all “I’m so old.” But when they come (like when The Grad told me he was in 5th or 6th grade when Weezer’s Blue Album came out), they sure has hell throw me for a loop.
Take today for instance. After my mid-morning nap (it seems that no matter [...]

“How are you young lady?” Opie leaned over the bar to try to get a peek at Jed’s screen.
I just smiled in return because I had cramps and the only thing that would come out of my mouth was a high-pitched scream that chars eyebrows.
“You married yet?” he asked.
I shook my head as I bent [...]

These are the questions that bring people to iwilldare.com, I thought I’d help them find the information they seek.
Q: If I lick a door will I get sick?
A: Yes, probably. Don’t go around licking doors, that’s just gross.
Q: Who sings ‘my body is your body i won’t tell anybody’?
A: We are scientists.
Q: How do you [...]

One of the strange things about working in a remote office is that you spend a lot of time talking to (or chatting with we use a lot of the instant messenger) people you’ve never met in person. Since I had to skip this year’s trip to the Great White North, I missed my opportunity [...]

Chi-town or bust: This is a list made for my little Chicago Roadtrip to see Paul Westerberg. It’s filled with songs about cars and Chicago. Includes such gems as Someone Take the Wheel by the ‘Mats, 1000 Miles from Nowhere by Dwight Yokam, Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago by Soul Coughing, and 35 other songs [...]

01May06: Featuring Rollerskate Skinny by Olds 97’s, You Wear it Well by Rod Stewart, Message to the Boys by the ‘mats, and 19 other songs.
05Jun06: Featuring Why Independent Record Stores Fail by Marah, Letter from an Occupant by the New Pornographers, Too Young to Fall in Love by Motley Crue and 36 other songs.
05Nov04 Pantages: [...]

I’m about to head into two entire days of back to back to back meetings with an office holiday party sandwiched in between. I’m so excited I might just slip into a coma. As if being a corporate whore weren’t mind-numbing and soul-sucking enough, the man decides to stick you in a room with a [...]

I had a bad day today. It was not any one tragic thing that made it bad. Rather it was a bunch of annoying grown-up concerns and work bullshit that just piled ever higher and higher, and me in my sleep-deprived, hormonal state cannot even pretend to deal with it.
There was a mighty temper [...]

“Okay, no Vodo, no bitchy, none of that,” Vodo said as he sat down in the booth across from me, pointing a finger in my direction. “He’s new, this is his first Grumpy’s experience. Be nice.” The he, that Vodo was referring to, was one of his new, adorable acolytes. Incidentally, many of Vodo’s acolytes [...]

If you need some inspiration, you can watch 4-year-old Austin sing the entire Chicago song.

Since Kelly is looking to organize her own book collection, I thought I’d post my before and after pics.
Before

After

You can see the annotated version on Flickr and even be nosy and look at the extra-extra-extra big one where you can see all my books and silently judge me. Go ahead. I totally would if I [...]

Things I cannot explain:
1. The popularity of Gwen Stefani
2. Why I always cry at the end of “School of Rock”