This; And also that

I saw Nipsey on the streets of NY once, sometime in the mid-80s. I shouted, “Hey — it’s Nipsey Russell!” And he looked over at me, and for the first time I think in his whole life, Nipsey stopped smiling. It was like I could hear the planet itself slow to a loud, crunching halt, … Read more

Can you play a nun? Can you play a nun’s hand? Can you play a quirky nun’s hand so filled with life and laughter and the real stuff, it can’t help but make us smile? “Say — who was that? Who just pinched me? I didn’t expect to be pinched like that, much less by … Read more

Jeff Goldblum This one, the fourth in a series of desktop-sized painterly images of individuals engaged with a glowing orb, set against a blue/textured frame, goes out to Kim and Zoro, whose comments today made me pause to reconsider the only-partly-realized genius and, yes, the big bag of pathos that is Jeff Goldblum.

Remember that scene in Close Encounters where Richard Dreyfus was compelled to make a mountain out of mashed potatoes? Something very similar happened to me not too long ago. Except instead of a potato mountain, I found myself forced to make a trifecta of images, each sized for a 1024 x 768 PC/Mac desktop. They … Read more

you shouldn’t eat so much of any one thing that if they found out that a really really huge amount of that one thing kills people you’d stop and say: oh jeez

The “Patrick Swayze/North and South” web page is terrible. There are lots of good web pages out there, covering a wide variety of topics. So there’s really no need for you to visit the “Patrick Swayze/North and South” web page. Here’s just one of the many terrible things about this web page. It says, and … Read more

Am I the only one a bit put off by the panda craze that’s been sweeping the nation, what with everyone and their brother buying panda bears and then bringing them with them *everywhere*? I mean, come on! I’m not saying pandas aren’t cute. I’m just saying, there’s a time and there’s a place. And … Read more

Wallace Shawn is Daffy Duck. (At least In The Princess Bride.) “Inconceivable!” -Cecil

I wonder how much time EE Cummings spent searching and replacing? Because I spend a lot of time searching and replacing and I wonder if that was a big part of his life too?

No he said, I’m topped off with liquids. And it was like he was bragging.