September 2007

On the Web

• Cassette MP3 Player: If I ever get around to installing Windows, I will so own one of these.
• My Team Vs. Your Team: Sutter Vs. Cornell Vs. Cornell in an epic, illustrated battle of superhero one-upmanship. See another match here.
• Photoshop Layer Tennis: The triumphant return of my favorite Friday afternoon design nerd diversion!
• Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8: An Onion article that is not so farfetched.
• A Brief Message: A new site dedicated… See more →

I’m not mendacious
women dig my honesty
and my flying car

drunken best man speech
a pronunciamento
of distaste for peas

my new factotum
didn’t expect to be asked
to embalm my dad

I’m just eating lunch
if you find me so noisome
don’t come to IHOP

unsurprisingly
Steven’s “great panacea”
was made of feathers

you’re very quiet
for such an intrepid soul
is it all that gauze?

for your recreance
I must take drastic measures
no Cheetos for you

a prismatic meal
even more varicolored
on its way back out

no more potboilers
give me quality writers
like, you know, Dan Brown

the ne plus ultra
of my indecisiveness
to be determined

this vase is priceless
but is it so ignoble
to drink Schlitz from it?

tell that old roue
to steer clear of my daughter
or he’ll catch her crabs

impassible dad
con: cannot say “I love you”
pro: show and tell gold

amidst plangent wails
roses rained on the casket
next time, get a tent

to cozen a friend
is the mark of a scoundrel
so is a big S

I killed my own summer. I took on more work than I should have, and hopefully I suffered the consequences more than my clients did. The summer is drawing to a close, though, and with its end, my schedule is finally becoming kind of manageable again. Today was the first day in ages that I was able to leave the house for something that didn’t resemble work.

In the early afternoon, I took in the… See more →

Another busy summer has come and gone, most of the fruits of which are still not quite ripe enough to talk about. I do, however, have a few things going on this month that are worth a mention.

Screens ’N’ Spokes

Throughout the year and across the country, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society hosts the MS Bike Ride, a lengthy cycling excursion whose participants have raised a considerable amount of money to fight the organization’s… See more →