Well in case my hosting company never quite recovers my database (and that of everyone else that shared that server), I’m going to try and repost a few things that slipped.
Most Loathsome People
The Beast has issued his 50 most loathsome people list for 2007. As usual, you’re on it:
Number 9: You. Your knowledge [...]
Due to a database server problem, it looks like the last week or so of entries and comments is lost. Help me out here … what was it we were talking about?
From the reader mailbag:
Dear Tom,
I’m looking for horror. Pure horror. So i watched 28 Weeks Later. Not so bad the horror. But the screaming was loud enough to wake my husband up. Lots of blood and screaming but not enough to whet my appetite yet. Can you help?
Love,
xxxxxxxxx
Gentle Reader,
I believe I have [...]
Over at the Literary Cafe, Andy has put up this photo he took of downtown Cleveland. Kinda makes me homesick, especially this time of year.
Honestly, we learned back in eighth grade — I’m not exaggerating — that Time Magazine’s “Man Of The Year” wasn’t given to the “best” person, or the person who did the most good, or even to a person who was good at all. It’s handed out to recognize the person who had the most influence [...]
The tree is up in the lobby here at tom-mcgee.com world headquarters in beautiful Maplewood.
Oops, forgot the star. We’ll get to that soon.
Let me share something I like about Christmas. Daughter No. 1 took it on herself to pick out a few ornaments and put them up in a grouping together. The five [...]
“Life is like an episode of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond.’ Only it isn’t funny. And it’s not over in 22 minutes.”
I finally got around to watching this on PPV over the weekend, and it was a hoot.
It’s part of a microtrend of deeply moral sex comedies. Micro as in, the only other one I can [...]
True story, saw this at the supermarket this evening.
The lady in front of me rings up $96 worth of merchandise, and tells the guy at the register she wants to pay $50 of it in cash, and the rest with her debit card.
He takes the $50 cash; she swipes her card; and he [...]
Let the one-liners begin. This ad is funny all on its own, but the fact that it was running on atrios adds to the amusement.
Thanks to the Analog Arts Ensemble for pointing to this outstanding example of the sheer wiggyness that was the ’60s avant garde. Stockhausen’s two-hour “mixtape” of national anthems, shortwave radio noise, morse code, electronic modulations and more is available in the form of a Stockhausen jukebox (one of the most ambitious Flash movies I’ve ever [...]
Our first big winter storm hit today. Up at the work site in extreme northern New Jersey there was a couple of inches of thick, greasy slush. Down here in Maplewood, lots of ice on all the branches (pretty!) and the power lines (dangerous!). One of the latter was down in the street across from [...]
I can’t make up my mind about Mike Huckabee. Sure, he wants to keep Darwinism out of schools. But on the other hand, he’s against making it the official U.S. social policy.
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