I am introduced to a stranger as "a comic." "You're a comic? Really?" "Yes. Actually, I'm Beetle Bailey." A stranger points to my tie. "Tie?" he asks. "No, I'm Indian." By the way, Beetle Bailey …
One nice thing about living with Michael is that he has many neat friends and acquaintances. I meet them and they guest star in my life for a few hours. The cameos have rarely turned …
Bend it like Beckham. I got to see this a few weeks back because my sister is a mover and shaker and got preview screening tickets. What a country! The plot: think American Chai plus …
I should distinguish between the signifiers "woooOOOOooo" and "doodley-oodley-oodley". "wooOOOooo" tells the audience, "this is a scary story; feel scared." For my purposes, "woooOOOOooo" is appropriate for supernatural tales even when the story is not …
"I think many civil libertarians have gotten this idea from mathematics about epsilon-delta proofs of limits and thought that you could have a moral bounding box around an act..." "Hello my name is Jeremy I …
Last night I thought, "I wish I could transform tasks I have to do into food I could eat." And now I'm going to transform some outrage into some action. We should try to avert …
When I discovered that Colin Powell's son Michael heads up the Federal Communications Commission, and that (according to Leonard) he's actually quite qualified and everything, the following skit presented itself: Michael: (comes home, hangs …
(or: Guess Dr. Lucky) This one's like Hangman. The Searcher picks some word and googles it and any number of Guessers guess the top result. I think category guesses, e.g., "a band" or "a furniture …
Hey, Alan! "In a supposedly live online chat with an SBC technician, Mizokami concluded that he was in fact 'speaking' with a machine."
Sarah invited me to hang out this weekend. One suggestion: "I could come by and watch the Simpsons. Or vice versa!" Of course, I immediately thought, "In Soviet Russia, The Simpsons watches you!"
