Author Archives: Anton

the cake is taken

I don’t suppose this is really a novelty, but it hasn’t happened to me before . . at least not recently: I got a penis spam addressed to newyorkgirl711@pobox.com. Come to think of it, there used to be breast-enhancing spams too, … Continue reading

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military strategy for dummies

When they say “we’re fighting them in Iraq so that we don’t have to fight them at home,” what do they mean? I’m imagining wannabe-terrorists throughout the Moslem world moaning, “I’d like to go to the Great Satan and blow … Continue reading

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still burning?

Four years ago I posted a link to satellite images of the forest fires then burning in California. In the past month that post has attracted well over a thousand searches!

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they keep on talking funny

The latest thing to puzzle me in med-speak is “benign yet appropriate”. When would it be inappropriate to appear healthy? There apparently exists a surgical tool called a synovial elevator. Makes me think of a bioengineered building, with beams of … Continue reading

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cross-pollination

After watching a murder mystery involving a medium, I dreamt that Maurice Minnifield wanted to hire a medium for one of his promotional schemes. At least it wasn’t vampires this time.

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pent-up demand

It occurs to me that, assuming Cuban Communism does not long outlive Fidel, a lot of gringos are going to buy nostalgic cars there.

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distinguishing traits

Watching Jericho, I wondered why Skeet Ulrich looks vaguely familiar; nothing in his previous credits rings a bell. Eventually I decided that his mouth sometimes looks like Johnny Depp‘s. That’s what I notice most about faces; how about you?

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