Urban Honking

I love satire. Powerful, powerful satire! “When a man makes a crucial decision about his health and his body, he should be fully aware of the alternative options and the lifetime repercussions of that decision,” Senator Turner said today. Go sign the petition about how much you want satire to be a part of our […]

Last night Gary and I discussed the TV series we want to make: “90’s Man,” in which a man frozen in a glacier in the 1990s is thawed out in the year 2012, and must cope with the strange alien world in which he finds himself. The theme song would be “90’s Man” by The […]

“Did you tell your students they have to watch the original theatrical version, not the dumb digitally remastered one?” “No.” “Yeah, it doesn’t matter. They’ve all seen it.” “You know, like four of them have never seen it.” “So we’ve entered THAT phase of Western Civilization, huh?”

It’s Super Tuesday! I think that name is misleading, don’t you? It implies something fun and festive. I woke up today and thought “Hey, it’s Super Tuesday!” Then I thought “one of these days I should really learn what Super Tuesday is.” So then I googled it and looked at the google results for approximately…I’d […]

Much of my farming experience thus far has been about the path of least resistance.  At times, the least resistance means something as simple as taking fewer trips back and forth between the beds.  Or carrying a lighter load.  Or creating a tomato tumbleweed, like this: But then there are the computer days, where simplifying […]

I have been following the careers of all the people in The State basically since they were on The State, when I was in high school. In high school I thought of them as grownups, and only recently has it really hit me that they are only five years older than me. Michael Ian Black […]

After a flurry of weird last-minute postdoc applications and graded midterms here it is Thursday and I am doing all-day jammies AGAIN, which as you know I truly hate. All Day Jammies, WHY There are few things more disgusting than going to someone’s house at like 3 in the afternoon and they’re still in their […]

PLOT SYNOPSIS: “look how pretty Marilyn Monroe was, such that this young man truly did wish to french her, can you imagine a more compelling tale” The ladies sitting behind us were talking intensely about how hard it is that they have so much more money than all their friends. Hey lady can I borrow […]

“I went and got two macarons at the fancy tourist place, and I ate one and I was gonna save the other one for a present for you, but then I ate that one too.” “Well I have truly married my mother.” “I was just so hungry.” “I would have enjoyed that macaron, honey, it’s […]

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! NOW I WISH I’D NEVER STARTED WATCHING YOU, SPARTACUS BLOOD AND SAND! Why give the world such a beautiful face only to take it away immediately via google? Poor Andy Whitfield. He was WELSH! Ugh, he just keeps getting better in my comprehension while in real life he’s been dead for four months! Look […]