Are we really trying to convince ourselves that this is confined to only the Steelers? Every team probably has a 'fixer' of this type in their employ.

also appropriate:

I work at a west coast university with an active greek system. I am also fond of getting manicures, and often patronize the nail salon near the University. The other day, I was getting my nails done when a troupe of identically-dressed, (and almost identical-looking) white girls came in and all got french PEDICURES,…

Ijon Tichy, Raumpilot is based loosely on the Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem (so: great source material). It has a satirical sensibility and cracking dialogue (and the subtitles are pretty good). Tichy's "three-room rocket" looks like a french press on the outside and a cheap Berlin apartment on the inside.

Those pre-cut things of butternut squash are excellent for making butternut squash soup, which takes about 10 minutes of actual work (even less if you have a stick blender) and is not only impressive looking, but is super-healthy. I like to put 1-2 canned chipotles in mine.

It comes out in two weeks, so I obviously haven't read it yet, but I am jump-up-and-down excited for Marissa Meyer's Fairest.

If you read Harbaugh's interview from Sept. he basically says he has no place on his team for people who beat up on Women, which would be the key difference between McDonald and Aldon. I don't know anywhere where a misdemeanor gun violation and a DUI are on the same level of criminal seriousness as (allegedly)…

One of the stickier rumors about the cause of the Harbaalke breakup is that one side agrees with you, and the other keeps overriding him. If that's true, this is a very interesting development.

Ah, ok. It's just the outer hairs that are longer? I haven't spent much time around fluffies (clearly), and so I just pictured every.damn.corgi.hair in my house (and my office, and my car, and my suitcases, etc. etc. etc.) being twice as long.

I am also worried. I used to do breed rescue, before I moved from a house with a big yard in the desert (where there are a lot of corgis who are ranch dogs or sired by ranch dogs) to a tiny duplex in the Bay Area, and I see so many badly bred, badly-socialized, pretty miserable dogs around here. These aren't city…

I love the way fluffies look (so cute!), but how do you people deal with the hair?! The small dog above (who belongs to my parents) has a show coat, and his hair is just constantly everywhere. When I lived in Europe (for business) for a year, and did not have my dog, I STILL found balls of dog hair under my bed, and I…

Even then, I'm pretty sure if you tried to get my dog to stay still on a leash for two and a half hours (so long! whyyy? I had a Catholic wedding and it was over in half an hour, jeez!), he'd eventually either revolt and start jumping up, or fall asleep.

Giant corgis unite! Here is my giant Corgi, next to a regular-sized corgi, for scale.

Ah, you're totally right. My bad.

Nope, it's from the 2006 the Wicker Man remake, one of the bestworst movies to come out in the past 10 years.

Big Trouble in Little China

Yeah! It looks like they tossed watermelon rinds down the hall!

Yeah, you never can tell with him, since he commits to everything 150%

I'm reasonably sure this wasn't intended to be funny, but BEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

Just because it's supposed to be funny doesn't mean it doesn't make me laugh every time.