Archive for: June 2004

Deadbeat neighbor: “Can I ask you a question?”

Me: “If you make it quick.”

Deadbeat neighbor: “Why on earth did you spend half the afternoon smashing all those apples with a shovel?”

Me: …

As you read this, Al Franken is rolling up a trouser leg and complaining about persistent swelling in his feet. The young segment producer he’s whining to nods, but what she’s thinking is, “man, this guy smells just like …

For those of you interested in such things, Mark Glaser’s new Online Journalism Review column — “MichaelMoore.com: Lightning Rod for Political Debate, Action” — is now up. I was one of the folks interviewed for the column. …

Spent most of yesterday in the ER with shortness of breath and tightness in my chest. I was released last night after a battery of tests at around 9, but I’m still finding it difficult to breathe deeply. …

John Henke uncovers some very troubling facts about Michael Moore and the making of Fahrenheit 911.

Related: In the time it takes you to read this entry, Michael Moore will have polished off an entire canned ham …

me: “You needn’t be so aloof, you know…”

apple:

me:

apple:

me:

apple:

me: “Fine. Have it your way then.”

Oliver Willis: “Happy ‘Iraqis’* Really Just Republican Operatives; Real Iraqis Express Bitterness at Freedom, Withhold Joy Until US Presidential Elections, Hoping Teresa Heinz Kerry Will Buy Them Each a Tasty Snowcone”

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h/t asv

In the time it takes you to read this post, Robin Williams will have been unfunny in six silly voices (eight, if you happen to read slowly).

for David Edelstein, et al.

Thanks to all of you,
I can finally pick up
that solid-gold fondue
pot I’ve long had my
     eye on.

“Former French PM: Creation of Israel by Balfour Declaration a Historic Mistake”:Parliament, Michel Rocard, blasted Israel as an “abnormal case in the world”, describing its creation by the 1917-Balfour Declaration as a “historic mistake”.

Rocard, who …