Lagniappe: an unserious blog
mysterious aesthetic choices
I'm not one to tattoo slogans on my forehead, but if I were, I'd assuredly get it centered.
falling upwards
Huckabee on yesterday's results: "While people in Washington and insiders continue to maybe gravitate to the senator's campaign, people across America are gravitating to our campaign and realizing there is a choice."

This surprised me: I didn't think that Huckabee believed in gravity, since it is just a theory that should only be taught in conjunction with intelligent falling so students can decide for themselves.
subpoenaing text messages
I don't know about the perjury charges, but I'd be all for impeaching a mayor that uses "LOL" three times in a single text message.
A year's worth of trash
Berkeley environmentalist performs publicity stunt and saves a year of trash.

My view: if he ever flushed a toilet, he was cheating.
minor 21st-century English usage pet peeve
Those who use "blog" as a synonym for "blog post" or "post." Especially when it's bloggers who do it. How does one distinguish between posts and blogs if one calls them both blogs? Does one talk about a blog on a particular blog? Can you see why this makes no sense? (Of course you can, gentle reader, you are probably literate.)
"We have, you know, relative stability and stuff like that. And, you know, lots of things that, you know, everyone would, you know, love to have."
The articulate Prince William.
"911 does not provide a babysitter, ma'am"
It's phone calls like this (true story via Romenesko) that make me question efforts to increase voter turnout through lotteries and whatnot.
Posted by Ted Frank on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 7:35am. 2 Comments
Comcast tech support
It's funny because it's true. Slim and I feel like characters in a Beckett play, Waiting for FIOS.
Posted by Ted Frank on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 7:05am. 0 Comments
A source of innocent merriment
I don't know if Deborah Jeane Palfrey is guilty of running a prostitution business, but she sure is guilty of murdering the English language and other crimes against grammar and spelling, only some of which ABC News saw fit to correct. (And, ok, she's probably also guilty of running a prostitution business.)
Posted by Ted Frank on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 5:37pm. 0 Comments
Heaven: a short play
Johnny Hart: "You mean I made my comic strip suck for the last ten years for nothing?"
Mohammed (shrugging): "Nu, what am I, chopped liver?"
More prestigious than Gallion & Spielvogel
Did you know that Bradford Cohen "has been published in the Florida Southern Reporter for his Appeals taken to the 4th District Court of Appeal"?
A shanda fer die goyim.