It’s Thursday, I’m Insane

Yes, I just sorta ripped off The Cure in my post title.  All of the originality is being sapped out of me as I sit here in Government Cube Land listening to the woman 2 cubes over chomp on chips with her mouth open. 
The sound is driving me insane, and I have no escape.
Maybe it [...]

Starring John McCain

To be fair, the John McCain poster is also horrible.  Lynn says “church bulletin,” but I say cheesy movie poster.  In fact, I think it stole elements from several movie posters over the last decade or two.

Same font and line-star-line divider as The American President (just different spacing)
Same big-head and devoted thirds (1/3 head, 1/3 [...]

Obey la Revolución de HOPE

All politics aside, I can’t help but laugh whenever I see one of those Obama HOPE posters.  The design is horrible, the imagery all wrong, and the colors just lend themselves to all the wrong subliminal conclusions. (As Lynn put it during our online discussion today, “the red/blue imagery is a bit like a trout-slap – [...]

I Won’t Be Winning Any Awards

Two quick bad mother (f***er not included) stories for you:
Balls
I opened the dishwasher today to add some dinner prep items to the racks and discovered two yellow tennis balls laying in the bottom.  Without thinking I hollered out:
“Hey, Boy?  Don’t put your balls in the dishwasher!”
There was a slight pause in his nonsense singing then [...]

Edumacation

I never imagined that I would I learned so much in just three months.
One of our interns wrote that in an email to thank our group for the opportunity to work with us.  I know it is an editing oversight.
I know that she was probably trying to make it just perfect.
I know that she’s a [...]