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Archives for September, 2008

HOODRAT STUFF

If I haven’t already made you watch this on my phone, YOU MUST watch it now.

Milton: “I took my grandma car because I got mad at my mom. And then I suddenly had my friend come in. And he smokes real cigarettes.”
Milton: “I wanna do it ’cause it’s fun. It’s fun to do bad [...]

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MORE

Jaclyn Campanaro sent this to my office.  She tricked out a regular old postcard using an exacto knife, some stickers, and a little imagination.  Could this be the fan mail contest front runner?  We’ll see.  Check out her other postcards here.

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WINDOW ON WINDSOR

Each month, my neighborhood newsletter, Window on Windsor, arrives not by mail, but stuck in between the planks of the fence bordering my courtyard.  See, neighbors don’t send neighbors mail, they deliver messages themselves, then leave them in creative places.  You can call it old fashioned, but we call it the Windsor way.
The newsletter’s Yard [...]

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52ND STREET MAILBAG

You know how Letterman does that segment “CBS Mailbag”?  Well try this on for size: IT’S TIME FOR THE 52ND STREET MAILBAG (applause).
So my old pal Scott sent these playing cards to my office.  The hookah featured here is called the “Chiquita Banana”:

Scott is in the hookah business.  No, really.  He is.  Look at the [...]

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PEANUT, PEANUT BUTTER…AND BOREDOM

Tonight, I want to talk about peanut butter.  See, a while back I made the mistake of buying the healthy stuff.  You know, the kind with all that water floating on top when you open it?  The kind with no preservatives, no sugar, no taste?  My diet has been peanut butter free ever since I [...]

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FAN MAIL UPDATE

I’m not gonna lie.  The fan mail contest response has been overwhelming.  Our mail room can barely handle the daily influx of love letters.  Below is my personal favorite so far.  We’ll be sending prizes out to that Kingwood return address right away.  Now remember, winners won’t be announced until August of 2009, so keep [...]

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MY FAVORITE THINGS

So we’re all familiar with Oprah’s Favorite Things, yes?  The annual episode of her show where she gives away boatloads of free stuff to the audience?  If you haven’t already seen this, watch the crowd’s response:

And now the remix:

Moving on.  Tastemaker that I am, it only seems fair to do my own list of favorite [...]

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FFFFOUND!

Enough is enough. I’ve been lobbying for a Ffffound! invite for forever. Put up bulletins on all the social networking sites, asked actual friends, researched for a way to pay my way in. Nothing. So now I turn to you, Internet. Please grant me this wish. I’ll pull my [...]

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PLAYING CHICKEN

In the interest of keeping this blog the freshest feed in your Google Reader, today we’ll cover drive-thru indecision. Many of you frown on fast food, I know. Good for you, a shorter wait at Wienerschnitzel for me. Immediate gratification is my game. Who doesn’t hate to wait? For this [...]

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