Posts in the category “comedy”

One More Minute

I’d rather have my blood sucked out by leeches Shove an ice pick under a toenail or two I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station … with my tongue … When we were (much, much) younger, my little sister and I used to thrill and delight our gathered relatives by singing our

Carlin

George Carlin is one of my favorite comedians. Saturday night he’ll be live on HBO. Like most everything else in the world, it won’t be live for me in LA. Tape-delayed, baby. Get used to it. With luck I’ll catch the show after the Gator game. I found this quote over at Bondcliff.net and just

Octopus Love

A very special link via LarkFarm: Everything you ever wanted to know about Octopus Sex.

Eddie

I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of the soundtrack to I Am Sam! This new movie (directed by Jessie Nelson; starring Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer) will feature a bunch of Beatles covers by artists like Eddie Vedder and the Black Crowes. Eddie doing You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away?

XML-RPC Ping

Ben has written a tutorial on adding weblogs.com XML-RPC PING functionality to your MovableType blog. Woo! What does this mean? It means that if you follow the steps in the tutorial, whenever you add an entry to your MovableType blog, MT will automatically ping weblogs.com to alert that you have updated.

verbalIQ

I just took a verbalIQ test that I found at leuschke.org. My overall score was a depressingly low 87%. I did well in the Reading Comprehension and Anagrams sections. I had never seen an Anagrams section on a standardized test. It’s an interesting concept, although I think it’s really just another form of a vocabulary

Referrals

I’m happy to report that five separate individuals searching the web found my web site using the search phrase “Tennessee football sucks“.

My New Name

Flywheel.org’s Random Title and Name Generator indicates that I should refer to myself as Chairman of The Association for the Promotion of Women’s Prison Movies, David Vincent Gagne. It’s a bit much for a business card, but I like it. [link via Elise]

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.