Archive for December, 2007

@#%*’n Weather! »

Right now, we should be in transit.

We don’t do much holiday-wise that doesn’t include the kids, but this year was going to be different.
Aimee Mann is bringing her Christmas show to the Vic in Chicago tonight. We had tickets. We had hotel reservations at a nice place a half block away from the [...]

Break the Line, Chew the Fat »

This just may be my favorite celebrity-endorsed advertisement of all time that doesn’t involve the gratuitous objectification of the female form. I can’t explain it; it just works for me. I’ll be purchasing something from the Gap soon, and I’ll tell them that Will and Amy sent me.

A shiny new dime to whoever can tell [...]

What’s Hate Got to Do With It »

I thought I had this hate crime issue all figured out. At first, I didn’t understand the need, but then I was enlightened.
Let’s say students from one school spray paint their nickname on their arch rival’s gymnasium the night before the big game; that is an act of vandalism.
Now, if a bunch of anti-Semites [...]

Insipid Use of the Hands »

My dad pointed something out earlier this fall, and now I can’t help but notice it.

Every football broadcaster, at both the collegiate and professional level, make the same hand gestures when they are on camera during the game, as illustrated here by John Madden. They hold their hands apart and perpendicular [...]