Shorts like this actually aren’t OK at the workplace. Or in any place you’re planning on tucking in your dress shirt and wearing a tie.

I took a long break after watching Season 1 of Deadwood, and I made up for it by burning through Seasons 2 and 3 in a week. Season 3 definitely ended with some untied loose ends, but not in a cliffhanger, making the show’s cancellation a LITTLE easier to take. I end up cursing creatively and excessively for 2 weeks after watching Deadwood.

In preparation for becoming a new parent, I’ve been reading (among other things) The Happiest Baby on the Block, by Dr. Harvey Karp. It’s full of what seems like will be very practical advice for how to soothe a crying baby, which will come in handy on the off chance ours aren’t perfect little angels.

So, anyway, I’m reading Appendix B, “A New Parents’ Survival Guide,” in which Dr. Karp lists ten “survival tips” for new parents. There’s nothing earth-shattering (trust yourself, be flexible, etc.) but I was brought up short by this paragraph in a sidebar titled “Rest: The Essential Nutrient for New Parents:”

The extreme fatigue that goes along with being a new parent can make you feel depressed, irritable, inept, and distort your perceptions of the world like a fun-house mirror. (Some countries torture people by waking them up every time they fall asleep!)

Yeah, some countries. Like, for instance, the United States of America.

I can’t help but be disappointed by a movie that garnered as much hype as The Dark Knight did. This movie was great and I can’t wait to see it again, actually, but neither the movie, in general, or Heath Ledger, specifically, lived up to the my incredibly and irrationally high expectations. Sitting in the 2nd row of the theater couldn’t have helped, either.

If only they could train them to savage sharks.

My brother would refer to these folks as Brown Rainbow Hippies. See also, Philly Gas Mafia.

Not like I was going to anyway, but surfing is out, too.

It’s a day of political drawings. Some good, some not so good.

Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner

“I don’t think it’s a bailout. The shareholders still own the company”. – Your President
But if it’s not a bailout, and the government isn’t getting anything out of it except risk… Um. Shoot. Any economists want to chime in on this, it’s over my head.