Author Archives: Mark A.

Just in case you’re not a net nerd like me, and I’m assuming you aren’t, one-time presidential candidate Arianna Huffington has started a blog, and boy it’s a doozy. She has posts on there from Spinal Tap and Simpsons genius Harry Shearer to Mr. Helter Skeleter himself Charlie Manson. Old Charlie’s actually a pretty funny […]

Tonight Leigh and I saw Dave Attell perform at the Empire Theater. What a diverse crowd. It was like being at the carnival. On the front row were people in business suits, and then in the row directly in front of me and Leigh (which was row 3) there was a woman who looked like […]

Usa Today is running a story about Tom Ridge who resigned in February. Ridge says he was pressured by the administration to raise the terror alert on occasions when no evidence supported doing so. I like the quote “The color-coded system was controversial from the start. Polls showed the public found it confusing.” Confusing? No. […]

CNBC has cancelled Dennis Miller’s show. Apparently, they believe that reruns of Conan O’Brian will draw more viewers. Dennis was on fire when his Off-White album came out. Then his first CD of Rants was published. If you would have asked me in ’96 who I thought was the best stand-up working, I would have […]

I’ve made a couple of changes to the blog. On my sidebar I now have a link for Firefox. Firefox is a browser that is much safer than Internet Explorer. If you are ever on any site and you worry it might be attempting to download crap onto your computer, or you have ever gotten […]

then something must be up with Bolton

I was working on a research paper on Jonathan Swift and I decided to take a break. I wish I hadn’t. I find this nonsense, and I hope that I’m delirious from sitting in front of this damn computer for so long. First off, the waterheads that are marketing that thing don’t have one clue […]

Blogging will be light through the end of this week. Papers to turn in, exams to prepare for, yadda yadda yadda. If I find something funny I may post, but don’t expect anything more substantial than that. Good luck to everyone else finishing up the semester. I hope you’re not as haggard and unsure of […]

For the last F’in time yeah. Now can you hear ME!

Last thursday (which was May 5) I was able to see Bill Clinton at Bookpeople in Austin. I arrived at Bookpeople around 8:45 in the morning and was finally able to see Bubba at a little after 11:00. The line was ridiculously long. Bookpeople employees would escort groups of 50 up to the second floor […]