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The Smokies – Lurking Can Be Creepy Edition

February 28, 2010 in The Smokie Awards

It may have been a Monday or a Tuesday when I walked into briefing, looked out over the collection of clean, shiny faces and began shouting profanities at them about every small thing that came to mind. A call we were on together, a wrinkle in their uniform, their report writing, etc. When I could think of nothing else, I noticed several open mouths and more than a few tearful eyes. I realized that I had never raised my voice to them before.

“I’ve got to go,” is all that I could think to say.

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Public Service Announcement: Dating Dangers

February 26, 2010 in Dating

It would be irresponsible for me to constantly dispense unarguably sound dating advice without also making our female readers aware of some of the dangers involved. In order to drive this point home, Wordsmoker, in partnership with Brinks Broadview Home Security, has prepared some realistic scenarios involving much better looking individuals than I’ve ever seen in real life. Because these training videos are specifically geared towards female viewers, I’ve also included some dating tips for men that may vaguely relate to each video.

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How Esther Got Her Jews Back, and Other Purim Tales

February 25, 2010 in Jewish Tales Brought Alive

On my most memorable Purim, I was nineteen years old, living in and attending a Jerusalem-based seminary, and dressed up as a devil. Not a sexy devil, mind you–this was Purim, not that slutty pagan holiday you gentiles call Halloween–but one dressed in a red knee-length skirt and matching three-quarter-sleeved shirt, a pair of the four-inch platform hooker boots that were the only acceptable footwear at my high school, and the whole token horns/tail/pitchfork set.

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symbiosis

February 25, 2010 in Wordsmoker Poetry

sunless morning
watch the rain fall
the silver maple branches
reach out
their thin ethereal phalanges
to grasp
the liquid pearls
and cradle
the droplets
that cling
ever so gently
before letting go
unattached

Who Is Jan Malone?

February 25, 2010 in When Bitches Ditch Debt

Do you know her? I would really like to find her. Because apparently, that bitch gave out my phone number as her own, and now I keep getting collections calls for her. I’ve been through this once before. When I first got my phone service in August, I got about 10 automated calls a day from collectors for different people. I always called the numbers back to tell them I was not the person they were looking for, and to take me off their list.

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Dr. King’s Dream

February 25, 2010 in Personal

My daughter recently participated in a living museum. It is a part of her third grade social studies agenda.

Students are allowed to represent anyone they want, either living or deceased, as long as they have a book about them in the library. The list to choose from is essential endless. It is a really interesting program. The students stand like statues, with a “button” placed on them. Then students or parents can “hit” the button and the statue begins to talk about the person they are.

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2 Second TV Review–Archer

February 25, 2010 in 2 Second TV Review

Do you like things that are funny? Do you like sexy [animated] bodies? Do you like the fact that Lucille Bluth, Kitty, and Dr. Spaceman all voice characters on the same show? Then watch this, dammit! FX, Thursday nights at 10. (And also available on Hulu.) You will thank me profusely.



Death By Musical Humiliation: A Confession of the Worst Albums I’ve Ever Owned

February 25, 2010 in Audiosmoker

I don’t remember the song. I had never heard it before and don’t recall if I’ve heard it since. It was playing over the sound system of a restaurant at which I was dining with a friend of mine. She was a nurse by trade.

Nurse: “Do you like this song?”

Chill: “I don’t recall ever hearing it before.”

Nurse: “Really? It’s on everywhere. I love it. Music is my life.”

Chill: “Your life? Don’t you have like four children?”

Nurse: “Asshole.”

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Wordsmoker Anthropology: Fido Versus T-1000

February 24, 2010 in Wordsmoker Anthropology

We had some friends over this weekend and somehow began discussing the show “Hoarders.” Since we don’t have real cable, I’ve only heard of this fascinating program, and am afraid of two outcomes if I ever get a glimpse of the show:

A) I will go into a cleaning frenzy and end up donating/throwing away everything to obtain that uber-chic minimalist style that look so nice in magazines,

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