Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Ice-T in Breakin and Enterin, 1983. Wikipedia on Ice-T: After high school, he entered the United States Army, an experience he has said he did not enjoy.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Bat Out of Hell, Ron Jenkins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/WireImage.com/Sports Illustrated
I have no doubt in my mind that this photo is a work of art. In fact, it’s a Where’s Waldo? of the spectrum of human emotions. Terror? Check! Confusion? You got it! Oblivion? Bottom center!
No wonder it won some big photojournalism award in 2007, although [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
My name is Heather, and I’m an exaggerator.
Well, I guess I mean to say, I was an exaggerator, at least until I decided to stop last week. I guess I never noticed, but when my manfriend pointed it out I couldn’t argue. He asked me why I do it, and I guess the reason is [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Over the past two days I have learned a lot about birds thanks to the good folks at PBS.
Yesterday, I watched a program called Raptor Force. Did you know, raptors are nature’s aerial killing machines? When a Peregrin Falcon sees a small bird, such as a grouse, it flies thousands of feet high, twitches its [...]
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Today I saw the Grim Reaper crossing Houston Street. He looked just like you’d expect: he walked with a cane and a tall black hood which trailed down his back. Plus he carried three white shopping bags.
He walked into FedEx Kinkos.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Last night I was watching some show about high school bullies. Forget kids, teenagers say the darnedest things. Some choice quotes from a kid named Billy (whom everybody hates):
Hobbies: I like watching fights at school.
I’m a gay Nazi that likes to kill retarded kids cats.
And while we’re at it, wisdom from another kid named [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
So you’ve probably heard all about the dude who ate 23,000 Big Macs. Now I don’t know why this became news at 23,000, and not, say, 20,000, but with all due respect to my vegan friends, I can totally where this guy is coming from. I’m having the same moment with Dunkin’ Donuts egg-and-chesse English [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Something is rotten in Switzerland. Tomorrow, the folks at CERN fire up the Large Hadron Collider. The 2,000 scientists involved are trying to study conditions just like those in the milliseconds after the Big Bang. They could find signs of an 11th dimension (in case you lost count that’s our four plus seven more that [...]