So I am a Cablevision customer. So are my parents. None of us have any real choice in the matter, as Cablevision/Optimum hold an effective monopoly on internet/television service in our respective communities. Both of these incidents were really annoying and wasted significant chunks of my Sunday and Monday, but by Wednesday everyone in my [...]

These are all Subject-Body couplets
The Angelina Series
Mick Jagger reveals Angelina Jolie affair – High speed chase leaves wreckage of 45 cars
Cure for breast cancer in sight – Angeline Jolie gives birth to 5 kids at a time
Angelina Jolie dies in miscarriage – Mud slinging of Tony Snow’s name bring disgrace to his last days in [...]

I am not someone who rides in a taxi very often, so the little TV screens in the back seat are still a strange novelty to me. They’re really annoying, and I muted it as soon as I got in the car, but studies show that I will read absolutely anything put in front of [...]

“As someone who has purchased or rated books by Jon Stewart, you might like to know that Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Tradition (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources) will be released on April 15, 2008″
“We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Arrested Development – Season One have also purchased Garfield: [...]

Workplace vignette
We’ve recently started allowing patrons to check out DVDs. We’ve got a weird mix of arty Criterion Collection movies, middlebrow “classics” like Star Wars and Chinatown, and then a bunch of vaguely sex/gender/New York themed stuff. I’m guessing as to the philosophy of our collection, but there is definitely a focus on [...]

Yes, everything work-related comes in pairs. I’m like a retail Noah.
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YOUNGER BROTHER: Rosa Parks Story? The hell is that?
OLDER SISTER: Duh! Think back to history class!
YOUNGER BROTHER: What do you mean, I don’t remember any Rosa Parks.
OLDER SISTER: You’re so stupid!
YOUNGER BROTHER: …
OLDER SISTER: Come on!
YOUNGER BROTHER: …
OLDER SISTER: She ran the [...]