Escolar aka Walu

This was an option to serve at our wedding, but we were a little cheap and downgraded to the salmon instead. According to [url=http://eater.com/archives/2008/02/move_over_mercu.php]Eater NYC[/url], we may have made the right choice in that one. But then again, knowing the gusto with which we flatulate, maybe we made the wrong choice.

Douchebag of the week. At least.

This may win douchebag of the month or even of the year! Here's to the guy changing his kid's diaper in a shopping cart in front of Berkeley Bowl. That's where people put their vegetables. Nobody needs your kid's waste in their salad. The changing tables are in the bathroom, even the men's room.

I'm still a little sickened over this. Ugh.

Talking about tomorrow's interview:

Me: "If I want to stop for coffee tomorrow morning on the way to the interview I better..."
Allison: "Leave earlier?"
Me: "Wear a tarp."

The timing couldn't have been more perfect. My wife, on occasion, can play the perfect straight man (the comedy role, she's lousy at being a heterosexual male, in all ways).

Sometimes I have trouble realizing two people are really different.

For the longest time, I thought John Waters and John Hughes were the same person. I was astounded that the guy who made Pink Flamingos also made Pretty in Pink.

I guess you could put them together and get Pretty in Pink Flamingos? That would be a hell of a movie!

I have to disagree with one of my favorites

Dahlia Lithwick is one of my favorite journalists, the courts editor for Slate Magazine. Unfortunately, I have to take an issue with her latest column, on the allegations of vote fraud from the right versus the allegations of voter suppression on the left. She calls for a bilateral disarming from both sides, largely due to the success of the right in getting voter ID bills passed and the recent Supreme Court case which legitimized them.

Dahlia tries to downplay the fact that, while there is no conspiracy by the left to stuff ballots, there is a concerted effort by the right to enact laws and policies to reduce the votes by those on the left. In an attempt to be even handed, she equates two side which are clearly not equal.

My lovely wife

"My mind is a blank, and every so often the words french fries blip across."

This quote earned her a rare trip to McDonald's.

Why I love British tabloids (even if they come from Rupert Murdoch)

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0904_mosley_new_audio_clips.shtml

In the video of Max Mosley, head of Formula One, and his Nazi hooker orgy, they manage to get the word "whilst" in there.

Whilst makes anything funny, especially if the sentence starts "Whilst still naked..."

I hate long term contracts.

I want to throw away my AT&T cell phone, because I just saw the most horrid commercial. That's what I guess when I try to watch the first round of the NCAA tournament in my bathrobe. Goddamned TV.

Since I can't cancel the contract, I'll just hold up my phone and swear at it for a while.

Quote of the day

Allison in the bathroom of our suite:

"AAaaahhh!!!! The phone!"