Ok, I've got writer's block. At least provisionally -- I can write magazine stuff, but the book is stuck in my brain and won't get out.

THE place to celebrate your penis enlargement surgery

THE place to celebrate your penis enlargement surgery
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resignation headline contest

my entry: Spitzer Swallows Pride

newly updated for 2008

There are 10 types of people: those who are sick of this joke and those who never got it in the first place.

Persona

Persona
Originally uploaded by justpat

I'm led to believe that when people picture me in their heads, they usually picture me making this face, or a face very much like it.

Notes on Watching MS-NBC

If the election coverage were to be played as a Christopher Guest mockumentary, Chris Matthews would be MS-NBC's own Fred Willard.

Click-click-click-click

I needed a Geiger counter for a bit of investigative journalism, and I couldn't find one to borrow or rent. So now I own one.

I did my investigation and the substance I was testing is not radioactive. This is mixed news because (a) it is good that this thing in our homes is not radioactive but (b) bad because there goes my story.

And now I've got a Geiger counter and nothing to do with it.