I wish there was an entire sub-genre of fiction devoted to exploring the theme of “teleportation accidents”. I can only think of two sources for this kind of material, Star Trek and The Fly. Two textual sources are nowhere near enough, IMHO, to even begin to scratch the surface of the richness and complexity still waiting just below the surface of this theme. Accidentally being reassembled as a reversed version of yourself, for example: all the left-handed and right-handed molecules in your body are now switched. For one thing you won’t be able to eat pretty much anything …

Dear Moonlighting Season 1 DVD Insert,

I think my husband’s father is a real jerk and I don’t know what to do. Every time he visits he acts like he owns the place: he smokes cigars in the house, he turns up the radio loud so he can hear it, and in general has me running behind him, rag in hand, trying to keep up with his slovenly disrespect. Dan (that’s what I’ll call my husband) doesn’t seem to be able to see how much this is hurting me and now I fear it’s starting to drive a wedge between us. …

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Score Hero has given my life new purpose. I am fast approaching beating the #1 spot on one of these, but I won’t say which. Ok, it’s “I Love Rock & Roll”.
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MIT Tech Review Windows enthusiast comes down hard on Vista and switches to Mac OS X.
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Two-thirds of surveyed blogs were not updated in the past two months. Nick, I’m looking di-rectly at you.
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High-sterical adventures of an effete Oscar Wilde enthusiast gettin’ his plumbing checked. Came upon this quite by accident, and you’ll be glad I did.
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a peddler has pulled his cart off the road and is resting beneath the beech tree that marks one corner of the field where none are permitted to pass. his horse is untied and he himself is seated against the steely trunk with shoes off, hat off, and eyes closed. the sun is high and glaring today and the rains of spring are long forgotten. there is a fragrance that comes off this field, when it’s very hot, and the wind is just so, and today i can smell it: something potent and rich, a thick, red, loamy smell. i …

Andrew & Jill were in town visiting Jill’s North-End-residing sister last weekend and were kind enough to set aside a day for me. We had a LOOOOONG day, but a great one, despite the seasonal and therefore lousy weather. Started off with us meeting up at Johnny D’s in Davis Square. Jill’s friend Amy came all the way from Lowell. Johnny D’s always has a fairly good brunch, though it’s also usually a little crazed feeling, very loud, lots of conversations jammed up close together, live music.

Afterward we went to….hmm. Oh yeah, duh, the Quincy …

Confession: I am uneasy when I flip around on the radio dial because I am so afraid that this will be the day that I come across NIN on the radio only to discover that it’s being played on an Adult-Contemporary/Classic-Rock station… along with Rage Against the Machine, Jane’s Addiction, and Soundgarden. I listen to these things now and it makes me deeply uncomfortable how dated it all sounds. Squirm.

Pretty much the best part of being CEO of Thorn Industries is access to the top secret log files of thornography.net. Every month my favorite pick-me-up when I’m feeling underappreciated (so, yeah, like, pretty much every day) is to browse through the list of search terms that are somehow bringing people to my site. Most people, naturally, come to my site by clicking on one of the links that comes up when you Google “thornography.” And for pretty much the past year or so, the number two reason Googlers are coming to my site has been the …

I think this fine satire is an excellent glimpse into a nearly universal revulsion that saturated the webosphlogoshpere a couple years back when WarnerBrosCorp announced that they’d be “updating” perennially popular lapine Bugs. At least, everyone I talked to at the time seemed to think it was a bad idea, and NOWHERE could I find anyone who thought this was a good or even remotely acceptable idea.

I kept my mouth shut at the time because I didn’t want to alienate the entire planet and my friends thereupon, but… I was fine with it. I LOVE Bugs …

Nanci Pelosi on becoming Madame Speaker: “This is an historic moment - for the Congress, and for the women of this country. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights. But women weren’t just waiting; women were working. Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling. [via Alas, a blog]