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OK, so I didn't plan to have that bottle of Dos Equis hanging there on the left side of the photo. In fact I had absolutely no idea that it was there when I went looking for X photos a little while ago. It was the metal bands that make up the big head, criss-crossing themselves into a plethora of Xs that I wanted to find among my thousands of phot. I mean, I took these photos last October,...

I took these two photos Saturday afternoon, across the street from Keller Auditorium where I'd just seen "Avenue Q." Frequent visitors will remember my ABC Wednesday, V is for Voluptuous post that featured Lucy, a saucy puppet from the musical. It's amazing that I lucked out when a friend at work offered me her friend's ticket because the friend of my friend couldn't come into the city for the...

So my wildest dreams came true last night on ABC. The debut of I Survived a Japanese Game Show marked the culmination of two long years of high school revenge fantasies, when the girl who stole my number-one bigtime crush in sophomore year made her appearance. She landed on her face, not once, but twice on a speeding conveyor belt in front of a crowd of jeering Japanese. Sweet, sweet vengeance....

So my wildest dreams came true last night on ABC. The debut of I Survived a Japanese Game Show marked the culmination of two long years of high school revenge fantasies, when the girl who stole my number-one bigtime crush in sophomore year made her appearance. She landed on her face, not once, but twice on a speeding conveyor belt in front of a crowd of jeering Japanese. Sweet, sweet vengeance....

This morning I walked east to a bus stop three blocks from our apartment, instead of waiting for the bus at the closer stop. About half a block from that corner, I stopped to take this photo, something I've been wanting to try, to see if I could get the camera to see what I see. What a wonderful canopy of leaves and its myriad shades of green! Right now I could get up from my little iBook...

When Digs called me on Thursday saying she had a free airline ticket and asking if I wanted to use it to go to San Diego that weekend, it took me about 0.3 seconds to whisper loudly into the phone "OHMYHOLYSHITAREYOUF---ING KIDDINGME?YES!" We were being VERY discreet as we whispered and worked out the details. (Both of our employers are conservative finance-y type places, and we...

Chronic Ear Infections: In recent years, Australia has been struggling with the following problem. The Northern Territory has the highest rates of ear disease in the world. Two-thirds of all Indigenous children there have hearing problems by the time they start school. About half of them will end up with permanently perforated ear drums as a result of chronic ear infections. The two bacteria...