Monthly Archives: February 2007

Search Me (January 2007)

Here is a list of the top 30 search terms that led users to my blog for January 2007. edward gorey hampton bay lighting parts umbreon haircut hampton bay website john denver sugarland cd stryper prince rogers nelson hampton bay customer service hampton bay track end live hampton bay replacement glass nina simone natalia tena

Lessons From Comics: “Let Silver Surfer Whine”

Thank God for Caller ID. Otherwise, you’d never be able to screen those phonecalls from Silver Surfer. Oh, he’s nice enough, what with the whole pleading our planet’s case to Galactus, thereby keeping the Devourer of Worlds from consuming Earth like some kind of planetary gumball. But the Surfer really, really needs to get his

Milwaukee Is Fresh Out Of News

That’s it. No murders. No traffic accidents. No weather of note. Nothing’s happening. How else can anyone explain this: The subject of their latest hard-hitting investigative report is none other than PictoChat, the least interesting feature of the Nintendo DS, perhaps the biggest selling portable gaming system on Earth. Why PictoChat? Because child molesters might

Lessons From Comics: “Let Thor Drive”

One of these days, right around lunchtime, it’ll happen. You’ll be at work, finishing up the morning to-do list. From out of nowhere, the Norse God of Thunder will lean into your cubicle, winged helmet and all, and he’ll ask you something like: “What say you, mortal! Art thou thinking Arby’s?” As fate would have

Considering Cole

Amber’s post has me thinking about Paula Cole. You know, more’s the pity when success comes about through ubiquity. In just under three years, Paula Cole went from relative obscurity to a celebrity worthy of praise as well as parody. Her association with the faux-teen schmaltz of Dawson’s Creek may just be an unfortunate circumstance

Me, The Juror

… find in favor of not doing this again, not for a very long time. And when I do, I will cross my fingers and hope for a case far simpler that that which we confronted this week. After returning to the Court House before 9:30am to continue our deliberations, we reached a verdict and