“These are designs not only for our time, but for all time.” Which evokes all time better? The crazy angular building that looks like it’s going to fall down any minute? Or the grid-shaped buildings that evoke prison bars. These WTC designs get better every time around.

No, this is not for real, but it’s a pretty hilarious idea.

And this is a new policy?

I cut my teeth at the Texas Business Weekly. Now I’m on the front freakin’ page!

I’ve been quite ill. It all started with a stomachache that then turned into the whole flu-like thing. And that pain in my tooth is flaring up. It’s actually in the gum around the tooth. And now I realize it’s partly in my lip. I don’t know: Was it always the lip? I’m probably dying.…

Hey, I think I know the other kid who was really scared and didn�t want to take your baby Jesus and the whole time all he did was say stuff like you�re going to hell, this isn�t right, stop.

Google’s new shopping service, Froogle, does not appear to work. At all.

Bizarre correction from my old stomping grounds, never known for rigorous fact-checking. Link courtesy Jim Dedman.

Absolute best thing I’ve seen on TV in ages.

Minor moment of concern of the day: Stopped at a red light next to a construction crew, which is carefully and rather wide-eyed lowering a 50-gallon tank labeled “LIQUID NITROGEN” into a manhole, with inches to spare around it, and about 2 feet from my car.

For god’s sake, don’t forget to ban the thing from the street, too!

The job of a film critic is a thankless one. Being on the Internet makes it even worse, as the trolls of the world need only hit a button to tell you HOW ST00PID U R!!!! Jeremiah Kipp and I wrote this little feature, outlining our favorite idiotic complaints and explaining why so many people…

She will eat your brain!

Wait a sec, Rob Schneider fills in for Regis Philbin on his talk show??? What have I been missing in this awesome world of daytime TV? Man, the things you see on a half-day vacation… My pal Neil runs one of the top ten sites devoted to black cheerleaders, or at least, that’s what people…

Today is already little Zoe’s one-month birthday. Crazy. What was I most unprepared for? The soreness of my stomach and ribs due to the incessant kicking of them by a baby that insists on being held upright so she can look around. Ow. Check out her preferred t-shirt here.

Another excellent review of Half Mast, courtesy of The Boox Review.

Received this interesting resume in JPG format from someone who thinks… well, I’m not sure what he thinks. You tell me.

I enjoy Big Night more each time I see it. After years of seeing the film over and over on cable, I decided to make the fabled timpano, a drumlike pastry filled with “all the good things in life,” per the film. It’s so impressive in the movie that you can’t help but salivate over…

Chris Seibold provided a very thoughtful review of Half Mast for MyMac.com. So thoughtful in fact that he wrote a multi-page addendum (which he sent to me, deciding that the book is indeed literature) after reading the book a second time… alas, MyMac appears not to have published the second part of the review. C’est…

filmcritic.com gets the ultimate geek symbol of approval! Woo hoo!