Kate Capshaw has had so much plastic surgery, her face looks like it was extruded from one of those Play-Doh playsets.
Month: May 2001 (Page 3 of 7)
I have a great idea for revolutionizing consumer air travel.
The secret: convert passengers into luggage.
When you arrive at the airport, you get a hypo in the neck that knocks you out until you get the anti-hypo at your destination. You fly in a tube sort of like the ones in Japanese airports that let commuters sleep during long layovers. You don’t get stressed out by delays, and the airline saves money on passenger cabins, food and cabin employees. Also, the unconscious period would be, as Coach on Cheers once said, a nice break in your day. What do you think?
More disturbing pop culture: This time it was Oprah, interviewing Barbara Ehrenreich about her book “Nickel and Dimed,” where Ehrenreich took a series of low-wage jobs to chronicle the lives of the working poor. Oprah also interviewed a series of women working incredibly hard to support families on close to minimum-wage jobs. As she sat interviewing one woman who noted how she would like to buy nail polish, but that $3 could be another meal instead, Oprah had on giant diamond earrings and a fancy pearl necklace, looking much more posh than usual, which is pretty posh. Somehow, seeing Oprah’s concerned face as she bravely brought the plight of the poor into her golden-toned media spotlight was deeply disturbing. Well, at least these women got hair and makeup out of the deal.
Somehow the ‘Iranian Supreme Court’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?
I’m trying to wrap up this thread of posts about Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs,” one of the best books I’ve read in a long while. Suffice to say that if you are familiar at all with Microsoft and the computer and software industries, it’s an entertaining and enlightening read – not so much about the industry, although that’s in there, but about how human beings fit (and don’t fit) into the world of computers. It’s also oddly touching, which is a pleasant surprise. While the book predates weblogs by several years, it is eerily similar in format and tone to a lot of weblogs out there now, six years later.
Here’s just one of uncounted quotable passages:
Dusty said, “I think your problem is that you think everyone else is a freak except you, but everybody’s a freak – you included – and once you learn that, the World of Dating is yours.”
Q: If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?
A. You are already an animal.
(stolen from “Microserfs.”)
Having finished Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs,” I was at Target over the weekend and saw a 1200-piece (!) tub of Legos in the toy section. I am now the proud owner of this imagination appliance. As I was paying for my purchase, the woman at the checkout said, “Would you like a gift receipt with this?” She couldn’t imagine that a husky 35-year-old man would want such a thing for himself.
“No,” I said, a little sheepishly. But only a little.
WHO is the father of Rachel’s baby?
Is it….Ross? Joey? Chandler? Chandler’s dad? Paolo? Mark? Cartman? Cartman’s mom? Officer Barbrady? The Denver Broncos?
I want to join Greenpeace.
Kerry Weaver rocks. End of story.