Archive for August, 2008

By the way, yes, I am aware that I’m not supposed to put quotation marks around text that has been offset with smaller margins. I know this, but I choose to take risks and disregard the rules. I am a risktaker. I’m also aware that you might argue that risktaker is actually two words....
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This from Gail Collins‘ latest Op-Ed in The New York Times: “The vast majority of the scientific community believes that the Large Hadron will not lead to the destruction of all life as we know it. Or at least as Greg Landsberg, a physicist from Brown University, was quoted as saying, the chances are...
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At the risk of overkill with Khaled … But just listen once! Once! You’ll never stop. I present Didi. I almost posted this clip. I can’t keep it together if I watch it, so you go ahead. And if you needed any more proof that he may be God, check out this. So, I...
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has anyone figured out why you cannot repeat the farting noise your shoe makes when you are trying to prove that you did not fart. anyone?
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Khaled is truly “the King of Algerian Raï.” But why hadn’t anyone told me about him before the other day. I feel hurt about this. All those concerts for all of these years, and now Khaled is like 50 and I haven’t met him or anything. Better now then never, I guess.
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I write today in a mood of victory as I have just won an important victory over my arch nemesis, a 2001 Ford Focus ZX3. We’ve been fighting for a few years, and while I am confident of ultimate victory I can’t help but wonder: “at what cost?” It wasn’t always like this. We...
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a little birdie once told me that my introduction wasn’t long enough. here is a list of 15 things you must know about me in order for me to (tough) love you.
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once, i was lucky enough to chit-chat with an unnamed person in my life while she took a poo in my parents’ bathroom. we were talking, badmouthing a certain ex-boyfriend of mine, and suddenly she wiped. honestly…it looked like there was a fur coat living in her vagina.
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Dear The Snark: Hi, how are you doing today? I know you only have six (6) minutes to read this letter so i will try to be short. Your column cracks me up. Though i am not a cog myself in the BigLaw machine, I am in the business of “trading cogs.” In short,...
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Status: Message successfully sent To: untoward@asofterworld.com, thisisfurious@asofterworld.com Subject: a fan’s plea hi joey & emily: i’ve been a linker to your site for a long, long while. i’d call myself a reader of your site but i can’t promise that i read it everyday. just sometimes. but over a number of years. like, if...
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