also, heads up, they're one of the awful stores going to be open at 4pm on Thanksgiving. That's right, before you've even had a chance to digest pumpkin pie and right about the time the l-tryptophan starts kicking in making you all sleepy, you're supposed to haul your own dessicated carcass to the mall. Not to mention…

Fourteen hour-long videos? More like one fourteen-hour video.

ethics in microwave journalism

a la Captain Hammer: the ethics IS his penis

I once had "the album of the soundtrack of the trailer of the film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail." No, that was the entire title. And it was awesome.

also, on a skateboard ridden chariot style, pulled by sharks with frickin lazers on their heads

the special grievances of various classes...

wow and this works in with something I'm researching for the novel I'm trying to write for Nano this year. Thanks!

protip: if you ever see an ad for a symposium of "apologetics" — same thing.

I never understood the destination wedding thing even when I was in the middle of it in Vegas, every time I looked out the window there's another bride and groom taking pictures by the sign... I thought the wedding was supposed to be for family and friends and the whole destination thingy was for the honeymoon? Just…

if I were to choose two items it would be a coffee and another coffee, but that's just because stupid late onset egg allergy makes baked goods a minefield. But man those crullers were good :-)

there's several, actually. The other "competing" POTO production is Ken Hill's version from the 70's, which served as the inspiration for ALW's take on it:

training cat 101: when very young, every time you pet them say "come here" over and over again. Soon all you have to do is say "come here" and they will COME TO YOU to be petted.

Everybody sing!

that reminds me: did we ever find out what happened to Sokka?

btw I found the complete Father of the Pride DVD in the bargain bin at Big Lots and it was hilarious in a twisted sort of way. They skewered Siegfried and Roy a LOT in that show, and Vegas stuff in general. It was not a kid's show. It was like Madagascar meets Married With Children.

TLC (formerly known as The Learning Channel)

how about this one