2008

My dashboard is spoooooky tonight. (floraflora &...

How The Democrats Can Blow It ... In Six Easy...

“I saw two of them having sex on the counter top.”
— Andrea supports Jane’s...

The Amethyst Initiative takes its name from ancient Greece,...

Amethyst Initiative unites educators in quest...

Hey look!  Gramps got his photo op.  That’s nice.

Blueberries rock.  And fyi, this recipe is awesome. ...

This exchange, from the premier of Pineapple Express, gave...

What I Learned Today

Douchey is as douchey does.

Hot.

Funeral Home Style: Not Just For The Dead Anymore! Kristen...

Dear Nora, Thanks for getting back to me. Excerpted from an email I just sent.  To a man named...

Woah, that was fast.

“It’s like cooking a stew in your kitchen.”
— Vahid Majidi, assistant...

How did I miss this?!

Remember the hostage that moved her murderous captor to surrender to law enforcement with readings...

When friends and family forward me emails featuring such laffs as a snapshot of the “Haircut...

Cesspool

I have finally turned off the laptop & submitted to my bed (though I haven’t given up my...

Inspired by this meme, a mosaic of my trip home. (Herein:...

This line-up from Mardi Gras past makes me wet.

Complaints Department

Why can’t I go to sleep before 2 am anymore?  Why do I always get a second wind at midnight? ...

From The Daily Figure.

For 30 seconds as you are speeding south on the BQE from LaGuardia to Flatbush, the Manhattan...

Fire the make-up artist, Katie Couric. (Spotted on an...

"I don't want to do anything that's...

— Robert Downey, Jr., that brilliant fuck, in “Rolling Stone.”

Anthony Lane goes to the Olympics

This confirms it: Julia Child is the coolest...

A blog of YouTube videos from the Olympics

Gena’s rendition of me from this website (for the...

Grandma & Echo.

All homemade. You see where I get it from.

This is a mile from home. We live in the city, but we also...

My dad’s made a cherry & peach pie.

Playing telephone with Satya & Arif.

I think those are sections of the fallen bridge (in the...

List of eponymous laws

The full spectrum of color, design and programming available...

“It’s really a fight for the soul of the profession.”
— Brad Olson, a psychologist at...

My shit don’t stink in my momma’s Prius.

When you order “mayo on the side” in Minnesota...

Lunch w my original bff, Alena.

Kids these days: this is the outfit Gena’s put...

Iz gettin my hair did.

Trump to buy McMahon's home, let him live...

Too long to read now, too good to skim, and too haunting to...

OmgmyparentshavebestespressomachineandIcan’tstopdrinkin...

oats: Happy Indian Independence Day!… One year ago today I...

“I doubt my roommates will miss one of these packages of Top...”
— Nick Bennett - shortly before...

(via jennifur85) You can convince me that one of them is not...

According to an analysis of campaign...

The house my dad’s parents built in the early 50s....

Me in like 1984.

Gena and I in July, 2001. gooneruk’s post about wasabi...

“I don’t read the script, the script reads...

A gorgeous slab of salmon, great wine, my dad’s...

Me: “I’m not going to post that. It’ll...

My sister spends 1 week in Burbank & comes back looking...

"There is a point in most abusive...

— Sloane Crosley, “I Was Told There’d Be Cake.” Her tenure as an assistant...

(via patrickmoberg)

Happy self-hump (er, photo) day!

I don’t care if they’re eight years old,...

“Oh, Cajun Boy. He’s just God’s way of teaching...”
— Me, in deference and...

“Oh, war. It’s just God’s way of teaching...”
— Jon Stewart

Eat my shorts.

I’m certain it’s not an exaggeration to say that the cyclists of Prospect Park are...

Sunday July 20th – A riotous celebration of...

arazor: Candied Chilies Photo by: Nora Sherman ©...

Is there a rule buried in the women’s gymnastics...

"Please don't do this!"

“If you’ve had a Coke in the last 80 years,...”
— Coke ad. Considering my...

Dylanesque

My Rollerblades and I zipped over to the Prospect Park bandshell to catch some of Bob Dylan’s...

“The team “Jane and the Kansas City Corn Rows” made their...”
— Not Eating Out in New...

I’m glad Obama’s pledging support for gay...

The eternal question:

jackieheartsb: Why do some people sail through life easily and without hardship while others have to...

It’s funny ‘cause it’s true. LOL Bush from...

To make up for the claws in the last post, I offer a...

Don’t ask me how I ended up on this Wowowow HerTube...

A classified ad found on Flickr.

"It don't Gitmo better!"

Everything is a sham. From “Olympic Balladeer’s Voice...

Taking An Idea and Making It Stick: Michael...

Why are Olympic swimmers breaking record...

biteofpythias: soupsoup: Daily Dose Of The Boss (homage to...

We are back in business. Just collected my phone from the...

My dear, sweet Marlon,

We’ve never met, but I think I love you. You found my phone in a taxi.  You answered my call. ...

I miss you. (That’s Dublin in the foreground;...

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Enter the arc of mountainous agony

Well, it looks like I could spend about $1,000 on an...

“You’re on the hold?”
— Me to my coworker, who was on...

My understanding of the war in South...

mattlehrer helps me keep things in perspective. Read his snappy analysis of the conflict.

Bad. Day.

Last night I lost my phone, I think in the cab, which means there is a 2% chance of seeing it...

Winning second place in the people’s choice category...

Jane and the Kansas City Corn Rows.

Watching Matt Grevers swim begs the question: just what...

Jane and the Kansas City Corn Rows’ “Summertime...

Transporting the chili. Our driver was lovely. He admitted...

Btw, we’re number two out of TWENTY-FIVE!!! Not bad at all.

We won 2nd place!!!

I am 80% as excited as I’d be if we won 1st.

Secret Weapon No. 1.

Cooking up some crazy good chili. Please come support us at...

Andre looks so fresh, so clean, and so happy.  Oh why oh why...

I thought this was a baby Montauk monster but really...

It often seems like Google Ads is the only entity in the...

Right, so those pics from 2005? They're...

DHK rightfully points out that NOLA no longer looks like those photos I posted earlier today.  That...

A gorgeous, perfectly ripe pluot, our treat after shopping...

A well-known landmark turned upside down.  For the first few...

I wrote at the time: Humvees are part of the usual sights...

November 2005, outside what was once my friend Liz’s...

John McCain nesting dolls: the unlikely presidential...

The trouble with our generation is that we were told we were...

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love...”
— Anton Chekov

mattlehrer: Olympic Women’s basketball is a little...

The handsome devil is my friend Shane, whom I met when I was...

Haunting bathroom art at HK Lounge.

In a 7 train jammed with Mets fans, can you spot the...

Michael Pollan as messiah, reflected in the P.S. 1 lecture...

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet...”
— One of Warren Buffet’s...

Too much energy tonight! The Led Zep is not putting me to...

I know this guy.  That makes me feel pretty damn cool.

Response from Elizabeth Edwards

If you see something, say something

I would like to report a powder-blue monkey, roughly the size and shape of a portly 10-year-old...

Love these Dries Van Noten shoes from my big-spender days in...

In the hallway outside lecture hall where Michael...

Andrea’s new haircut is fantastic, don’t you...

Lamb and watermelon. Who knew?

I dined at The General Greene last night and loved it as much as New York’s “Underground...

For poorer and fatter

Times are tight.  McDonald’s sales are up.  Just what a nation of lard-asses needs. (That...

“There’s nothing that the road can’t heal.”
— Conor Oberst

A relationship with a cameraman has left me with an ardent...

Ben Schott compiles a miscellany of eight lore.

Serving the Goddess: The dangerous life of a...

Wow.

“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you...

Today, Google’s links next to my email are in...

Monae is so fucking hot in a pompadour and tie it makes me...

"Nothin' but cognac."

— Cornel West on the drinking habits of Richard Wright (“The New Yorker”)

“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children.”
— A Russian judge’s...