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NO. NOT MARTY BOOKER. NO.

Not Marty Booker for the love of god! What? Was I not available? I caught one less touchdown than Marty Booker last season. Think about it.

8 Things That Are Now Or Were Once Illegal In Chicago

Payday lending; auto title lending; sketchy mortgages that increase instead of decrease; selling hard liquor at the grocery store… these are all activities that are perfectly legal in my hometown of Chicago, but not in New York City, my current place of residence.
That got me wondering. What is illegal in Chicago?
I present the following list:
1) [...]

Thomas has sent me this link, which will take you to a story about a man who thought he was Bill Murray. It’s excellent. I wish I was Bill Murray. I really do.

CNN Has Lost Their Damn Mind

This was on the front page of CNN.

Garfield Minus Garfield Is Brilliant

For years I’ve been telling people (people who promptly lost all respect for me) that there was a certain brilliance to the comic strip “Garfield.” I think this (entirely accidental) brilliance stems from the fact that the strip was conceived as a merchandising vehicle. Eventually, the mental toll of writing a daily comic strip about [...]

The phrase “drink your milkshake” has now fully and completely infiltrated my speech. Examples: “Sorry, buddy. I didn’t mean to drink your milkshake when I posted that follow up to your article.” “Rats, this other website is totally drinking our milkshake. We should be more on top of this story.”

I have just upgraded the RAM of a Macbook, making my nerd-fu officially cross-platform.

Some Of My Ideas Are Demonstrably Worse Than Others

Sadly, this is what happens when I browse the new IKEA catalog.