Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2007


This is me stinging bobbyblue at the Williamsburg Spelling Bee. Photo by Mike!

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I didn’t make this up at all

October 30, 2007

Today’s Word of the Day is “jentacular”!

Meaning “relating to breakfast.”

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I AM a spelling bee

October 29, 2007


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the wisdom of our Greek philosophical forebears versus the folly of Enlightenment discourse, as played out in store advertising

October 23, 2007

Next time I see a business advertising “UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT,” I am going to stop in and demand a detailed reckoning of everything the old management did wrong.

Seriously, was I eating hair and rat poison that whole time? Was I contributing to the exploitation of workers? Or was the old management kind but inept, leading to its hostile takeover by more exploitative managers?

Notice the sign never says “UNDER BETTER MANAGEMENT.” The sign simply relies on the modernist assumption that new = improved. This is not always so. Remember that time Mommy replaced Daddy with “new” Daddy? You probably didn’t enjoy being “under new management.”

Related post: HELP WANTED PIZZAMAN

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Wachovia at W 39th and 7th

October 22, 2007

WHO APPROVED THIS?
Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? Perverts.

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new spelling photos by Kimi Milo

October 22, 2007

New spelling bee photos (lots more of them) by Kimi Milo are up on the spelling blog. Tonight at Pete’s is comedy.

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atheist wedding photo

October 19, 2007

Hwang Woo Suk has nothing on me! Who needs cloning when I can MAKE NEW JENNIFER DZIURAS?


I totally pronounced them married. (I did not actually pronounce them “man and wife”; I pronounced them “equal partners in marriage.” Is there really such a thing as an atheist wedding officiant who is not also a feminist wedding officiant? The overlap is near-complete. Few people want a secular wedding and also want to perpetuate outmoded gender ideals; similarly, there is little market for, say, “nonalcoholic tequila.” Or, “genetically modified hemp.”)

Between creating a new Jennifer Dziura with mere WORDS, and producing children with gay men I’ve never met, I have completely obviated the need for traditional reproduction. I AM A MASTER OF ALCHEMY AND ABIOGENESIS!

Related post: Don’t be fooled by counterfeits

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outtakes from yesterday’s nerdalicious photoshoot

October 18, 2007

All by Bill Wadman.

Comment posted by my brother:

Sibling… that is the nerdiest shirt ever created. Ever.

If it had… you know… a slightly more manly cut, I might want one.

Perhaps I would want more than one. Perhaps three would suffice. But just to be safe I should have slightly more than three. I’m thinking somewhere around 3 and 1/7th, but not exactly 3 and 1/7th. If only there was an easier way to express how many I wanted. Someone should work on that.

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the law of diminishing returns

October 18, 2007

I’m at the Apple Store Genius Bar, where a monitor is displaying various advertising and instructional information while those of us with sad Macs wait, sadly.

One ad for a new computer boasts that the computer has enough disk space to hold “400,000 copies of the complete works of William Shakespeare.”

Isn’t it funny that 400,000 digital copies of the complete works of William Shakespeare really aren’t any more valuable than, well … one?

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Nerd Goddess of the day

October 17, 2007

Bill Wadman is a photographer who is taking a portrait of a different person each day for a year.


I am October 16th.

Favorite comment: “She looks like the 21st century Clark Kent.”

I love whoever wrote that.

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