I went to church with my wife the other day. We’ve been to this church a couple of times in the past, and I’ve always been impressed with its facilities. Services are held in this sort of cavernous gymnasium-looking sanctuary, with rows of bleachers facing a big stage under a huge television screen. They’ve got [...]
Check out the latest entry in Karim’s Awkward Elevator Moments series. For more in the series, and some excellent caricatures of various rightwing luminaries, go to Stall #2.
In the Whitehouse Situation Room … Karl Rove: [Rushing breathlessly into room] Sir. We have a problem. George Bush: [Playing with an ancient Speak & Spell] N – U – C – L – E – A – R. Nucular. Rove: Sir! Bush: [Looks up, impatiently] Damn it Karl, Can’t you see I’m bettering myself? [...]
Imagine this: you’re in the process of putting together a powerpoint presentation on your company’s procurement practices when you remember an article you saved off from a web page a couple of days ago. It had a very cool quote on ferret mating rituals that perfectly illustrates your point about widget acquisition protocols, but you [...]
Someone stole my wife’s bank card this weekend. By the time we found out, they’d already run up a bunch of charges against our checking account. I cancelled the card last night, and just for good measure, cancelled our credit card too, just in case they’d gotten access to her purse and copied down the [...]
There were more statistics from Iraq this week: 100 Iraqis died standing in line for jobs when a car bomb exploded in their midst; 2 more American soldiers died when a roadside bomb blew up their convoy; 540 soldiers dead since the war began; 8000 Iraqis killed in the process of being liberated All the [...]
Saturday night, dead of winter, and we’re driving home from dinner on curiously deserted streets. The moon is full tonight, bulging like an overinflated balloon. There’s mischief brewing under its dead crust, I can tell. The air is so cold it’s freezing around us, and we keep crashing through sections of frozen vapor that stretch [...]
Neil Gaiman recently responded to another plaintive wail from another aspiring writer, and his advice both echoes and deviates from the usual writerly prescriptions: It does help, to be a writer, to have the sort of crazed ego that doesn’t allow for failure. The best reaction to a rejection slip is a sort of wild-eyed [...]
I’ve been picking my way through the collected letters of J.R.R Tolkien for the last couple of months. The guy was an inveterate and apparently tireless corresponder; this “selected” collection contains thousands of letters, to many different people, on subjects both profound and mundane. I don’t have the patience or stamina to read it straight [...]
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