Bookworm on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Bill Clinton, Silly Stuff
You remember Robert Reich, don’t you? He was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, serving during the first administration. He’s now a Berkeley prof and a blogger. Turns out he’s also a playwright, and his play “Public Exposure: An Indecent Political Farce,” is being performed in Santa Rosa, about an hour’s drive north [...]
Bookworm on Jan 06 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
I’d never heard of Tim Slagle before this afternoon. However, because it was raining and I was certain to get lost, I took my husband’s car which has a navigation system and a better steering and stopping mechanism than my car. It also has XM radio. That’s why, at 4:00 this afternoon, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 23 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Self-dealing, platinum parachutes, obscene profits — all these corporate acts inflame people, but I’ve now read a story that shows corporate executives sinking to a new low, engaging in an act that only the most depraved minds could imagine, let alone put into effect. Hold on to something tight because this story, out of [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Military, Silly Stuff
The military apparently knows exactly what’s going to happen if the Dems take the White House and control Congress, and they’re already brainstorming solutions.
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
When I still lived in San Francisco, I lived near a bus stop that had the most dilatory buses you’ve ever seen. Although they were theoretically supposed to come to that stop every 20 minutes or so, people could find themselves waiting for a bus for 45 or 50 minutes. If you were coming out [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff, Women
Hardcore stuff for real women.
And two jokes:
Joke, the first:
A man comes home from work one day to find the house in complete chaos. The kitchen is piled high with dirty dishes, food is strewn across the floor, the living room looks like a bomb hit it, and two filthy, fighting children are sitting in front [...]
Bookworm on Dec 10 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
I was one of those kids who had mice and hamsters and guinea pigs, so I have to admit to a bias in favor of rodent cuteness. This rodent, however, is such an eccentric blend of over-sized ears, tail and feet that I think most people, even those less favorably disposed than I to rodent [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
It’s not fear of death….
It’s this:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=lTpFUT-lxls]
Maybe I should just listen to these guys, ’cause they seem to have figured something out:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974&NR=1]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
We’ve introduced the kids to Monty Python. They laughed so hard over this one, we had to replay it to hear all the dialog:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQI0Xm29To]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Silly Stuff
I’ve been thinking lately about self-perpetuation. Although I can’t remember the source of their outrage, Mr. Bookworm told me that Greenpeace is outraged by something. Hearing that, the thought popped into my mind that, well, if they’re not outraged about something, they may as well disband.
I read somewhere, and I can’t remember where, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Thought you’d enjoy this little bit of news out of Spain:
When the Spanish king Juan Carlos turned to Hugo Chavez and said to him, a touch irritably, “Why don’t you shut up?”, little did he know that his breach of diplomatic protocol would become a smash hit across the country.
Were the king to claim image [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
I have been blogging (sort of), so I have the consolation that you’re not coming here and finding that dreaded “nothing has changed” blog look, at least from one day to the next. I do know, though, that my output has been lethargic. For that I blame my third cold in as many months, which [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Pacificus directed me to a tremendously funny London Times article that purports to be a French woman’s view of the British. It takes very good writing to be nasty about both the British and French, while making you laugh out loud and still feel sympathy for both victims of this sardonic attack. Check it out.
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Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
I got this in my email today and thought it funny enough to pass along:
Recently, a large corporation hired several cannibals to increase their diversity. “You are all part of our team now,” said the Human Resources rep during the welcoming briefing. “You get all the usual benefits and you can go to the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
The inimitable Paragraph Farmer directed me to two websites that analyze the level of education the average reader needs to understand my blog. Here’s how I come out on the first test:
Incidentally, although the website that ran that algorithm doesn’t explain, it almost certainly is analyzing my vocabulary and sentence length. So, it [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2007 | Filed under: Parenting, Silly Stuff
Not only is this Anita Renfroe video both funny and clever, wait ’til you see the spontaneous audience reaction at its conclusion:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU]
Hat tip: Lulu
Bookworm on Oct 25 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
You know you live in a ridiculous era when satire is regularly trumped by reality:
It’s no secret that Germany has a problem with ageism. Workers here who lose their jobs after the age of 50 are virtually assured of spending the rest of their lives on the dole. A recent plan to up the retirement [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
When I lived in England, one of my friends went for the one and only time to a professional soccer game. Although she found it exciting, she vowed not to go back when she learned the hard way that serious soccer fans, rather than leaving the stands, would just pee where they stood or use [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Very funny:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEXywdSpNQ]
UPDATE: YouTube deleted the above video. However, you can still see it here.
Hat tip: Hot Air
Bookworm on Oct 19 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Someone very, very clever wrote this one:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=FrYRY6kx550]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2007 | Filed under: Hollywood, Silly Stuff
The video quality is abysmal, but it’s still one of the great unknown songs from the golden age of Hollywood musicals: Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, in Royal Wedding, singing “How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been A Liar All My Life”:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=MXNKSa0WZsg]
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Bookworm on Oct 17 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
I don’t know, but this story of truly abysmal stupidity — stupidity that, fortunately, had no permanently bad outcome — just tickled my funny bone:
A Foster City man is being held for allegedly hitting his father in the head with a hammer because he mistakenly thought the 81-year-old man had to be hospitalized before he [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Lindsay Lohan made a great, and clearly inadvertent, pun following her departure from rehab:
“It was a sobering experience,” Lohan says in an interview with OK! magazine. “It was humbling. It made me look at myself, and all of the people, places and things in my life in a different way. I was in there for [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
He survived a car accident last year, lost a leg, and still won the race. Not only that, he’s incredibly cute. Have I piqued your interest about this feel good story? Read it here and tell me if I’m not right about it being a charming little news squiblet.
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Bookworm on Oct 09 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
500,000 hits that is. I hadn’t even noticed, but Don Quixote pointed out to me today that, sometime in the last few days, I crossed the 500,000 mark. That’s a lot of zeros, not to mention a “five,” so I’m pretty pleased. I therefore wanted to thank all of you for helping me reach and [...]
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