"(Ben Folds' desolate "Brick" is also set at Christmastime, yet somehow it isn't regarded as a holiday favorite either.)"
Funny interview with an actor who's on Arrested Development. And another and another.
A few nights ago: I'm a happy little boy, traveling off to war, hanging off the back of a kindly mentor as we ride horseback up to the eastern shores of Canada. Suddenly - Nazis! …
Leonard is practicing a song that intentionally sounds like 1990s alt-rock. It makes me nostalgic every time he plays it. Cute child anecdote!
An alternative (of sorts) to Personal MBA. Of Mr. Spolsky's tentative list, I've read:part of The Mythical Man-Month The Design of Everyday Things (a.k.a. The Psychology Of Everyday Things) Microserfs Ben & Jerry's: The Inside …
MC Masala this week recounts the tale of the one and only hickey I've ever gotten. I gibbered that it was a bug bite and looked, pleading, at the nurse. She saw the desperation in …
Last year, I received a holiday present from an person I'd never met, sent to my work address. It was We, a dystopia by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was a great gift, catering to my interests …
I can report, not just advise, a happy Thanksgiving. Food and fun, as the saying goes. The fun included Taboo, Once Upon A Time, San Juan, Settlers of Catan, Illuminati, and the film Hitchhiker's Guide …
Jon Carroll's Thanksgiving column, as annually reprinted.
