Someone keeps coming to this page from the Shonen Knife website. Shonen Knife have about played the cute card to death, but they do it well. I went to their site and made one of the images on it my desktop wallpaper, forgetting that I'm on Ian's PC -- not mine. Luckily, he's too busy banging his head against the wall over Jet Force Gemini to care.
This woman is dumb. The priceline.com page quite conspicuously states that the bidding price is exclusive of standard fees, taxes and surcharges -- several times. She has no one to blame but herself. When I had to make travel arrangements last December, it was too urgent a situation to use priceline.com, but I know a few people who have been very happy with their experiences dealing with them. I would more enthusiastically suggest Economy Travel.com. Thanks to Kim for the link.
I don't like Matt Drudge, and I don't like Jeanette Walls, so I thought this was good, catty fun. And eggs as a sexual fetish? Talk about freak of the week.
A new study indicates that London taxi drivers have one section of the brain (the hippocampus) that is enlarged, in relation to the general population, which helps them remember where the hell everything is. If you're ever in London, a ride in a black cab is a must; you can ask the cabbie to take you to some back alley in the armpit of the ghetto, and he'll know exactly how to get there without consulting a map. He'll also charge you forty bucks for the ride, but hey.
According to the more-often-than-not correct Ted Casablancas, Madonna's pregnant again. Note to any celebs who might be reading this (yeah, right): find out who Guy Ritchie's publicist is, and steal them away.
Martha Lane Fox and her cronies over at lastminute.com have seen the value of their company rise to almost a billion pounds (well over a billion dollars) in the very first day of their company's initial stock floatation. I think that's cool, but I have a feeling these stocks are gonna crash like Halle Berry after a few glasses of Cristal.
Doesn't everybody love wheelchair humour? This reminded me of that episode of Seinfeld -- if you're worth your weight in sponges, you know which one.
JonBenet Ramsey's parents think a pedophile killed their daughter. Um, yeah, so does the rest of the world.
This is my second item in two days on a men's magazine I'm not too fond of, but if anyone wants free tickets to a Maxim fashion show -- either in Birmingham, Nottingham, Cambridge or Middlesbrough -- email me and I'll send them your way. You get free beer and other drinks, as well as 10% off all the designer clothes, and you'll be sent home with a free goody bag at the end of the night.
13 March, 2000
I need to go to the grocery store, and after re-reading (for possibly the tenth time) this funny as hell piece, I think I'm mentally prepared.
Julianne Moore has snagged the role of Clarice Starling in the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. I guess if the girl from the Karate Kid movie can get good roles and an Oscar nomination, there's no reason why Frannie from As the World Turns shouldn't.
I was very pleased to get my Tomato Nation t-shirt in the post this morning, a mere 3 days after Sars sent it -- big yay. It's cute, and you can get one for free if Sars uses your question on The Vine.
Someone at The Sun -- the Charmin of the tabloid world here in the UK -- must have a sense of humour: today we get an angry piece about the benefits political asylum-seekers are getting, right above a 'ha ha, isn't that cute' article about how the Queen has travelled to Australia with her own kid leather toilet seat. So helping refugees is out of the question, but supplying the royals with leather toilet seats is really funny and justified? Ugh -- I love England, but this kind of stuff makes me wish I was back in Ohio. (And then I talk to Karri, who tells me it was 80 degrees on Saturday and snowed on Sunday, and I'm glad I deserted my homeland.)
I know my links don't all qualify as breaking news or bring you the latest reports from the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other shows I don't watch and everyone else in the 'online community' (ick, again) does, but don't say I never gave you anything.
The price of Sony shares is tumbling after the hassle over the Playstation 2's faulty memory cards. I'm no financial adviser, but I think this would be an excellent time to buy a bunch of Sony stock; they'll recover from this and will continue to dominate the console war, and it's a good chance to buy some cheap stock that could someday pay for a holiday home in lovely Gary, Indiana. Or something, I have no clue.
Thanks to melty's weblog for directing me to this collection of David Sedaris' writings for Esquire. I'm no Esquire fan, but at least they know how to hire a profound, hilarious writer.
