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Garfield Minus Garfield is going to be published as a book. I’m so pleased.

Cubs Win, Cubs Win

I love the White Sox, but they needed to lose in this case.

I’m Pleased With Slightly Scurrilous News

I’ve taken some time to think it over and decided that I’m very pleased with where we landed on Vanity Fair’s blogopticon. Very newsy. Slightly scurrilous.
Thank you, Vanity Fair. One of these days I’ll put together my philosophy of consumer news blogging (and how it is infinitely more asskicking than traditional MSM consumer coverage) [...]

I hope that M. Night continues to make movies so that this person can continue to write lists of silly things that happen in them. [New Republic]

I Am baaack

I’ve been on forced Twitter/personal blogging hiatus because of my computer deciding to have a nervous breakdown. I think I may have fixed it. Huzzah.

Smoothies Hate Me

I like the idea of smoothies but I hate (haaate) the following ingredients:
Oranges & other citrus (instant and severe migraines followed by hives)
Bananas (disgusting)
Mangoes (vile)
Soy (horrific)
Peanut Butter (the most repulsive substance known to man)
It’s impossible to find a smoothie with none of these ingredients. In fact, I just searched the entire Jamba Juice menu and [...]

“If stupid arguments were outlawed, then nobody would ever talk about sports, and we don’t want that to happen because then we’d have to think about our actual problems.” -Neal Pollack, Top 10 Dumbest Sports Trends

I Drink It Up

I’m enjoying this YTMND very much.
I drink your milkshake.
Drink!
I drink it up!
http://danieldayremix.ytmnd.com/

How Do I Explain The Macabre Deliciousness That Is The BBC Twitter Feed?

Whoever writes the summaries for the BBC Twitter feed is my personal hero.
“The farmer husband of a woman who died after apparently being hit by a tractor is charged with murder.”
“A pet owner is jailed for four months after killing his dog by putting it in a washing machine.”
” A man who killed the [...]

The Tribune Wins Sun-Times’ Anti-Tribune Video Contest

The greatest thing ever has happened. A bunch of reporters from the Chicago Tribune won the Sun-Times’ anti-Zell “Don’t Change The Name Of Wrigley Field” video contest, sneaking the entry in under the name of one of their interns.
The Tribune pranksters say they followed the contest rules, weighed the ethical concerns and cleared the project [...]