So I'm watching "Blind Date", which I haven't seen in a while. Pretty interesting (and amusing) show, and I recommend that all of you losers out there in Blogland who keep failing in your dates watch often and study well! 😀 But seriously, it's wild. This episode has a flabby, uncouth UFC fighter named Wes (Wes!) on a chemistry-less with this ex-stripper lingerie model who looks like a certain author I know. And I watched "A Current Affair" tonight as well! I didn't even know that show was still on. Christian Slater sure leads an interesting life... and with religious group leaders having the ability to seduce their spiritual charges with a mere snap of their fingers, maybe some of y'all out there should become ordained ministers and start your own denominations! R-D-R-R!

Also, "Just Shoot Me" and "Suddenly Susan" are about the only sitcoms I can tolerate these days. I have no idea why that is (though I suspect that it has something to do with the gorgeous Brooke Shields in the latter case). Any guesses?

G'night and have a great weekend, minna-san!

P.S. You NYC people should really go on "Blind Date"! I would! And am I the only one who kinda wants to see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? Should I have kept that to myself? I think perhaps I should have.

Writing this one from work, where I just finished a lengthy two-day battle with adware and viruses on the office computer. I'm still not even sure it was a victory, but at least ads aren't popping up every fifteen seconds! And I got over my reluctance to install software on this computer, so things should be a lot more secure on here with me running Firefox instead of f'n IE. Because I knew IE was shit, but holy hell I'd never actually experienced anything like what happened yesterday! (more...)

This woman who looks like Renee Zellweger just walked by! There's also this fairly attractive oldish woman (maybe late 40s, early 50s) in the lobby with really pretty black and silver hair -- I bet she was really hot when she wore a younger woman's clothes. And on that note...

In the process of searching in vain for an old Muppet Babies Gonzo Happy Meal toy to star in the Scary-Crayon Muppets in Oz review, I came across some old photos of myself in younger days, among which were some of the shots used in my middle school yearbook. I'd forgotten I had these, and I don't at all remember how I got them, though given the fact that some of them feature some of the girls who were thought to be the hottest in the school with me nowhere in sight, I'm thinking I must've traded something pretty awesome for them. (more...)

Nothing profound tonight, just an idle thought.

In a recent post, I noted that the girl who answered the phone and took my order at the Chinese restaurant sounded absolutely precious. And since my jobs as of late have required me to answer a lot of phones and make a lot of calls and leave a lot of messages, I wonder if anyone hangs up the phone after hearing my voice and says, "Wow, that guy sounded pretty cute!"

I doubt it.

I really did. Like the titular character of Caren Lissner's Carrie Pilby, I spent a good part of the day doing things that I enjoy. And I think I'm going to try to do that more often.

Granted, the day didn't start off so great -- not that it was awful, but it was something of a chore for me to pull myself out of bed (even at 10:30 AM) to get ready for work at the comic book store. And while I do like the store, and working there isn't so bad, after a busy 5-day week I decided that I could use the entire weekend to rest and work on my various projects (Scary-Crayon, fiction writing, drawing, etc.) and that my Saturdays were worth more to me than $20 and a 15% discount on comic books (which I rarely buy anyway). So I gave my resignation notice, offering to work next week before calling it quits, but later I ran into the store owner and she said it would be pointless to have me work next week, so that's that. So if anyone reading this lives in the area and ever wants to hang with me on the weekend, I'm free to do so without calling it in and taking off. (more...)