April 2005 - Posts

Colorado Sports Is What This One's About
29 April 05 08:00 AM | Jason Looney | 1 Comments   

At halftime of the Nuggets-Spurs game on Sunday, Charles Barkley declared — with authority — that San Antonio would not only win the game, but would win the entire series in short order. At the time he said this — with authority — Read More...

Filed under: Sports, Television

Bookstores are for smart people. And Alex.
21 April 05 06:45 AM | Jason Looney | 17 Comments   

Walking through the bookstore on our coffee break, Richard stopped, turned to the rest of us, and pointed to this month's Architectural Digest . It had gold embossing on the cover, declaring this issue the "Architecture Issue." Richard said nothing. He Read More...

Filed under: Books and Mags, Coffee

It's About Milk
20 April 05 07:00 AM | Jason Looney | 1 Comments   

As a single man, I would occasionally think: Milk sound good. And I would open the refrigerator door, grab the big white thing, put the opening to my mouth and cross into a state of not-yet-lactose-intolerant bliss. Now, as a married man with two small Read More...

Filed under: Family

Don't Worry, We'll Travel By Bus
15 April 05 07:00 AM | Jason Looney | 0 Comments   

Since Chris has left the topic of EW to focus on SW for a while, I thought I’d share a couple of EW tidbits: First, if you happen to be recording music and your goal is pristine tracks with no talking, wheezing, or evidence of bodily exhaust on them, Read More...

Filed under: Music

Also Missing: A Special K
14 April 05 06:30 AM | Jason Looney | 0 Comments   

For the record, I enjoy that “Thank You” song by Dido because of Eminem’s sampling of it. My nascent femininity is merely coincidence. Read More...

Filed under: Music

The Flamers of Yore
07 April 05 05:45 PM | Jason Looney | 0 Comments   

I've been getting a lot of e-mail asking about my various flamethrower-defeating inventions … Here's the thing: If you were a teenager in the 1980's and the Secretary of Defense asked for your assistance in defeating an army of evildoers, what weapons Read More...

Filed under: Movies

Things I Didn't Invent
06 April 05 06:30 AM | Jason Looney | 1 Comments   

Things I Didn't Invent ( source: Google ) "beyond the scope of human ingenuity" — 8 hits "Dave Whiner" — 212 hits "the golden rope of truth" — 1 hit (so close!) "flying cars" — 77,500 hits (not so close…) "the pancake" — Read More...

Filed under: Search

Amway Steak Money
05 April 05 08:45 PM | Jason Looney | 3 Comments   

As it turns out, there is something far worse than running into a wrinkled butt at the gym: running into Slimy Amway Guy. For those of you who have managed to avoid Amway Guy, here’s how the Amway pitch typically goes down. (Note: I've been pitched Amway Read More...

Filed under: Exercise, Marketing