Category Archives: things that happened

The Magical 13 Hour Birthday Migraine

Yesterday was my birthday. I spent the entire day (from about 9:40 AM to 10:40 PM) with an insanely colorful migraine. I laid around in bed, unable to do much other than sketch migraine auras and, occasionally, vomit.
Not the best birthday ever, but I plan on having a cupcake party later in the week to [...]

A Money Saving Invention

I was riding the N train towards Manhattan and, as we were going over the bridge, one guy leaned over to another guy and said, “Yo, I invented something.”
The second guy asked what he invented. The first guy said, “A stroller with ice skates instead of wheels.”
The second guy replied, “Why would anyone need that [...]

Farming Is Sexy And So Am I

Much is being said these days about “local food.” Must of this earthy discourse is, of course, taking place in New York City, a place where the idea of local food should probably cause at least a small shiver to run down the spines of those who, like me, grew up within proximity of actual [...]

Every single day at around 2:40 my laptop completely freaks out and starts “thinking” really hard about something. While it’s doing this every program (especially Firefox) acts psycho. All attempts to find whatever this stupid “task” is and disable it have failed. Argh.

Well, Why Not?

This popped up in Google News.

Happy Casimir Pulaski Day!!!

Today is Casimir Pulaski Day, the best day ever. Why? Because there is no school, and Casimir Pulaski was a badass.
I remember all Casimir Pulaski days of my youth fondly, something I cannot say about Easter. Easter is bullshit.

Today I failed at a joke and pissed off a lot of people because they thought I was seriously saying that Amazon.com uses Smart Start cereal as packing material.
Some of them wrote me mean, condescending letters about how incorrect I was. I was actually just kidding, but I wasn’t sure how to respond to the [...]