people say she’s crazy…

Last night, I got on a train and firmly grasped a center pole.
Fractions of a second later, a skinny young man in a very puffy coat with a hat on and his face otherwise buried in his GameBoy/PSP/Whatever pivoted from a side pole, shuffled a few steps while playing said Whatever with both hands, and […]

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In general, think people fart less on the MTA than on the CTA, but they smell funnier.  I really haven’t witnessed many MTA farts, but I have sat next to some seriously creative-smelling people on the subway.  In Chicago, the worst I got was this guy who rode my bus everyday and had pretty stinky […]

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Oh, the Interwebs on a Monday!

From Jenna Fischer’s MySpace blog in which she very clearly describes the WGA strike in easy-to-understand terms: “Finally…I LOVE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!  I’m not sure I can say it enough.  And boy…Riggins.  Riggins!  The tortured soul!  The bedroom eyes!  Jesus!  Let’s end the strike for Riggins!” Kara and I express […]

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It’s 4:10 AM here on the East Coast, but somewhere west of here, Todd just invented the phrase
hate-colored glasses
and my world came alive.

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