The other day I called the cable company to move my sister's cable from our apartment to her new place. I gave the woman on the phone the address and all related pertinent info. She looked over the bundle of...

From: Making Light I in ur sonnet, doin ur ritin. How do this hapn? I just a kitty. Main job of catz are just 2B pritty! ('Cept with the doggies, then us be fitin.) Course back in da old days...

Loosely inspired by. I am having a hard time deciding between two songs that are both vying for the title of "jay's official musical guilty pleasure of summer '07". One is the new track from everyone's favorite boy-band-that's-not-really-a-boy-band, Maroon 5....

From the amusing wrongkmiller.wordpress.com:according to the u.s. census, miller is the country’s seventh-most popular surname: nearly five out of every 100 people is a miller. the census doesn’t calculate how many of those millers have a first name starting with...

Previously... So, I got the call on Wednesday, and I officially have a new place to live. I was worried about finding a place in my price range that I actually wanted to live in, but was surprised to find...

From the Wikipedia article on Rodney Dangerfield, who died in October of 2004:When Johnny Carson died on January 23, 2005, a correspondent from CNN called Dangerfield's longtime publicist, Kevin Sasaki, and asked whether Dangerfield would be available to share comments...

My first computer was a KayPro II, a hand-me-down from my father. He had just gotten a new IBM PC that booted DOS off a 30mb hard drive and displayed its text-only interface on an orange monochrome monitor. My...