Electrolicious

As I was browsing the produce at the grocery store, Dre sidled up behind me and said, “Ooh, we should finally get that pizza slicer we’ve been needing.”
“HELL YEAH!” I said, perhaps a little over enthusiastically because seriously: we keep talking about it, but never remember to actually buy one.
The art school student/grocery store employee […]

After my reading last night in Brooklyn (which was even more fun than my book release in Seattle, perhaps because I had fewer logistics ie penis cakes to juggle) I was headed home in a car full of women. We pulled up alongside another car which was oddly double parked. As we waited for the […]

Andreas and my discussion of a Forbes article that has since been yanked offline (they put it back up with a rebuttal).
[16:41] Ariel Meadow: holy fuck: http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2006/08/forbes_to_men_whatev.php
[16:44] *Dre: Well, forbes is making itself irrelevant with stuff like this
[16:44] Ariel Meadow: yeah, they’ve actually taken the article down.
[16:47] Ariel Meadow: I mean, wow: “wives working longer […]

[14:17] Ariel Meadow: OMG, YOUR JOB:
[14:17] Ariel Meadow: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ofc/173182238.html
[14:18] Patrick: i’m going to sic a pack of rabid guinea pigs on you.
[14:18] Ariel Meadow: all that squeeling!
[14:18] Ariel Meadow: they make such awful sounds.
[14:18] Patrick: i used to have one.
[14:19] Patrick: named Schmedly
[14:19] Patrick: Schmedley
[14:19] Patrick: He had a skin disease.
[14:19] Patrick: We had to […]

While Andreas and I were on the bus home, I got going on a ramble about how if we’d been really smart we would have caught different busses, with one of us going to the coop while the other went to fetch the car and then by the time the spouse with the car arrived […]

Yesterday on my commute home on the #106, a fight broke out. A petite young woman wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf and ankle-length skirt was standing in the aisle of the bus, way too close to the front door. As a huge clump of people were trying to exit the bus, apparently a large man […]

A guy on the bus just told me my sidekick was filthy. I looked down at its screen, which sometimes can get a little smudged and smeary.
Then I realized he meant cool.
This is the first time this has ever happened to me. It portends of bad things.

Sweet-looking little old lady on the bus, to no one in particular: “Doris, for what you’ve done, I hope the devil has his pitchfork 16 inches up your pussy!”
Erm, sweet-looking little old lady with Tourettes, evidently.

I was editing some copy at work, and came across a headline I liked a lot. It was a little breath of fresh air in mostly dry copy. It was great! I felt the need to compliment the product manager:
Ariel: “Start your engines” NICE!
ethan: your capacity for self-praise is truly awe inspiring
Ariel: I didn’t write […]

Last night Dre and I went to go see the new Harry Potter movie. I really enjoyed it, and I agree with critics who have said that it manages to be both the funniest AND the darkest of the series. I was actually sort of suprised to see how many parents brought their very young […]