[You can’t get him back this way, Tom](From the L.A. Times) CANYON LAKE, Texas — A family tragedy unfolding in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal — without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the raging debate outside Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice. The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family standing vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center…
[What can brown do for you?]Happy birthday to Phil and Amber. How you two ended up with the same birthday, I’ll never understand. Phil’s at the new job right now. I think he gets off at noon. I really hope he likes it. I guess I’ll sit here and wait on the UPS truck until I have to go to work. Somewhere in middle America, there’s a four-track looking for its new home.
[Let the good times roll]Phil has been searching hard these past couple of weeks for a new job, and he just heard from this dog and cat vet/kennel that he got their open position. He’ll be walking dogs and cleaning up poop and feeding them and holding them while they get shots, etc. He works 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day (with a two-hour lunch) and 7-noon Saturdays and some Sundays, meaning lots of…
[Only in Memphis]From the Memphis Flyer:MODEL SEARCHDPG seeks big butt & thick females. Must be 18 or older. Call between 8-5 Mon-Fri. No weekend calls. Ask for Nicole 795-7013 Should I go for it?
[Sorry, I don’t do sloppy seconds]So the American version of The Office premiers tonight at 8:30 central on NBC and I’ve got Phil on assignment to watch it and give me a play-by-play when I get home. Oh, Tivo, why dost thou cost so much? I’m hoping for it to be a success in its own right, because I really don’t entertain any notions of it duplicating the utter brilliance of the British version. American…
[And all the sweet serenity of books]I suddenly have a serious urge to go to some bourgeois bookstore like Books-a-Million or Barnes and Noble and just smell the coffee and leaf through volume after volume, admiring the bright, smooth covers and flexing the rigid spines. I think we’re in a good time right now for book cover design, and just looking at and smelling lots of books would make me really happy right now. +++Here‘s…
[Free Fiona]Sony’s not releasing Fiona Apple’s newest album because it’s not what they see as marketable or something. You can read all about that here. Anyway, there’s a big online campaign to spread the songs around, so I thought I’d do my part and direct you to them. You can listen to the album here.
[I want you to do me what to show]Built to Spill is playing at the Young Avenue Deli May 23. I’m off that day, and it is going to be awesome. Also, Jack White is in town working on a project and was at an Enon show Phil was supposed to go to with Jamie but forgot about. That stings.
[For what it’s worth]While my heart goes out to Terri Schiavo and her parents and husband, I can’t help but feel that the Congressional hullabaloo her situation has evoked is little more than strategic, hypocritical pandering. Call me a cynic if you must. But this guy pretty much sums it up best: “By now most people who read liberal blogs are aware that George W. Bush signed a law in Texas that expressly gave hospitals…
[Tickle my nausea]This is for the giant roach that tried to scurry away when I turned on the bathroom light. He fought me valiantly but ultimately I smothered and smashed him out of existence beneath the cheerful yellow bathmat, while Gonzo looked on in abject horror. “Bugs”By Pearl Jam I got bugsI got bugs in my roombugs in my bedbugs in my earstheir eggs in my headbugs in my pocketsbugs in my shoesbugs in the…
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