Proposed campaign slogan: "One house, one spouse: Obama/Biden '08."
6:54 PM | (0) |

Just when you think you're a few steps ahead: I've discovered a cache of unanswered e-mail, mostly messages sent through this site. I offer apologies to anyone awaiting a long-overdue response, and ask your patience for a while longer.
6:52 PM | (0) |

I've mentioned before that I was inspired to put together the weblog-version of The BradLands by—and in fact lifted more or less wholesale the original design from—Steve Bogart's original weblog, News, Pointers and Commentary. Now Steve has dug into his old Frontier database and put the original 1997–1998 archives of that site back online. It's an old-school weblogger trip down memory lane!
6:48 PM | (0) |

The video for cutie crooner Spencer Day's "Movie of Your Life" (my favorite of his songs) pays homage to eight classic films. Can you name them all? (The short was put together by St. Louisan Chris Lawing.)
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"In a country that has, at best, a conflicted relationship with public support for the arts, we are made to think more and more every year that art is a luxury. I was raised to believe it is a necessity. Art, in all its forms, is the expression of who, why, and where we are at any given time in history. It allows us to question, in a nonliteral, academic, or linear way, who we are, why we do what we do, and where we are going. Incorporating art into the fabric of everyday life is an obligation and a sign of a healthy democratic society." — Stanley Tucci
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"...when another artist asked what I had against actors, I said writing for them was like painting not in oils but in colored mice; after the painting was finished the mice began running around. It was dawning on me that I was perhaps not a theater man." — William Gibson, The Seesaw Log
11:35 PM | (1) |

How lovely: They're brothers with benefits. "Of all the men I have loved or tried to love in my life, my brother is easily the most significant."
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By reports, it appears that Anheuser-Busch will be bought up by InBev. There is no joy in Budville.
10:29 PM | (1) |

If I am ever asked to give the commencement address at my former high school—and it doesn't look particularly likely, alas—I hope I could do as well as Patton Oswalt did at his.
9:53 PM | (0) |

This Week in Stupid: Jersey Boys in Chicago goes smoke-free.
5:22 PM |

Awesome: "The generation of electronics with a soul" on display at Pocket Calculator Show.
5:12 PM |

Jesse Helms (Odious Prick–NC) has died. Good.
12:11 PM |

I have upgraded the ExpressionEngine software behind the scenes in The BradLands to the latest version 1.6.4. Everything seems to have gone smoothly. Do let me know if there's anything amiss.
2:46 PM |

"The heart may have its reasons of which the reason knows nothing; but reason all too often has no heart." — Alan Jay Lerner, The Street Where I Live
12:08 AM |

To whom it may concern: Your friends are not getting "gay married", they're getting married. You are not going to a "gay wedding", you're attending a wedding. Words make reality. Lose the superfluous quotation marks. See also: "lady doctor", "male nurse", etc.
1:42 PM |

I still miss him but there's probably no fucking way I'm ever going skydiving again.
12:16 PM |

Need advice? Ask The Stage Directions To Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
10:28 PM |

A do-it-yourself project: The Five-Dollar Laser Show. (Cost does not include optional Pink Floyd album.) [hat tip to J-Walk]
8:02 PM |

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." — Maya Angelou
7:42 AM |