This movie was directly responsible for my one and only attempt at computer programming, on a TI-99 connected to our living room TV set. I wrote a simple BASIC script that started with a prompt that asked "Would you like to play a game?", then when you hit return after typing in an answer (it didn't matter what the…

Why is she wasting her time writing pop culture articles anyway? She should be focusing on her work with the Supreme Court; that's what we pay her for, dammit!

Hosted a party on Friday, and tradition states that she who hosts, get to drink whatever everyone else brings. So that ran the gamut from homemade wine to peach saison to PBR. Woke up Saturday not only hung over, but with a cough & fever that I'm still trying to shake. So let's just say alcohol is off of my menu for a…

Spike Jones was the Three Stooges to Freberg's Marx Brothers.

Very similar to Tom Lehrer; both brilliant satirists who pushed against the mainstream but still very much men of their time when it came to music.

In Wisconsin and where I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, old fashioneds are often made with brandy, so you have to ask for a "whiskey" old fashioned to be sure. At a local place once I asked for an old fashioned and was presented with four different styles to choose from. Funny since the origin of the drink…

Upvote from a biology teacher.

The Botany of Desire is one of my all-time favorite books, and one of its four sections is on tulips and tulip mania. The others are on potatoes, marijuana, and apples. It takes a look at the evolution of these plants, with the perspective that the plants manipulated us in order to become successful, not the other way…

My mom and her partner of 20+ years live in Indiana. Not ALL Hoosiers are homophobic assholes. Just most of them.

This book sounds terrifying.

The second paragraph of this review perfectly described my reaction to the Going Clear book. Just when you think it can't get worse, another horrible story is revealed. I really want to see this doc, but then again, I sort of don't.

Taco Bell marketing person: "Don't worry, nobody will remember that Apple Super Bowl commercial from 30 years ago."

My college's theater department did Godspell last semester, and as much as I try to support our arts, it took everything I had to sit through that production to the end. Personally, I think JCSS holds up much better as a relic of the "hippie Jesus" era.

Damn. And I was still on an Astin buzz after watching Rudy last night.

A very public event at work that I conceived of and planned in response to a potentially negative situation went quite well today. Many congratulations and good feelings were shared. Feeling pretty good about it!

My first thought was after reading the headline, if he's playing Dan, he's going to have to shave that sexy beard. Hopefully the father character is more of the lumberjack type.

Damn you.

I just recommended Gulp to my Biology class today! One of my favorites.

28 women? They really couldn't find more women than that to read 50 Shades and talk about porn? Lazy grad students.

Charles Shields' biography of Vonnegut paints him as kind of an asshole, especially in terms of his relationships with women. As a big Vonnegut fan since high school (where I was introduced to him, as many of us were, by a countercultural English teacher) I think I preferred not knowing about his personal life.