May 30 2009
Dear Customer,
Recently we informed you that we were raising our Overdraft Fee and Return Fee to $39. After careful consideration of the many factors “currently impacting” the economy, our business and our customers, we have decided to leave our Overdraft and Return fee at $38.73 per item.
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May 28 2009
So, my life as I know it is over. I’ve been given a responsibility far exceeding my aptitude. 1) It involves counting. And since I spend all day every day alphabetizing, I know absolutely nothing about numbers. I know that when counting, one number usually follows another, except when it precedes. But then I’ll wonder, [...]
May 20 2009
So, here it is, the cursed abomination that is the pinnacle of Hollywood indulgence and decadence and moral depravity. Not only has some asshole remade a definitive masterpiece of in the annals of film history, but he’s butchered it, cut up its face with a razorblade, forcibly sodomized it, and repackaged it as a musical. [...]
May 15 2009
Since I don’t have the energy to deconstruct what is ultimately a positive review of Apatow’s new film, Funny People, I’m going to post a link to Esquire’s review and then go mainline caffeine before going to my real job (i.e., the one that pays me money). I’m eager to see the film, liking all [...]
May 12 2009
Take a moment from your busy day to sit and breathe and chill for the next three minutes and thirty-one seconds.
Mar 01 2009
The industry for writers and publishers is changing. And if creatives can’t adapt, using new media and new technology and new ideas to their advantage, then the importance of the literary arts will suffer. That’s not to say the stories will change, that style, voice, content, or form will dramatically alter. What’s changing is the medium through which authors connect with their audience, or even how authors build an audience.
Jan 31 2009
I’ve always thought of the last half of the 20th century as belonging to Mailer, Roth, and Updike—not only for their creative faculties, but for the temperament and quantity of their output. Mailer became obsessed with the behemoth novel, trolling the backwaters of conspiracy for the great American novel he finally admitted was beyond his [...]
Jan 13 2009
I’m calm, cool, collected. I swear. No sense of panic written into the growing number of lines on my brow or patches of silver in my hair. These past three years have aged me beyond recognition. But, in spite of the horror show that is my life—the poverty, the loneliness, the panic attacks in my [...]
Dec 21 2008
So, as my Mandarin Chinese is very limited, my understanding of this scene is like this:
The woman holding the palm-leaf fan is a witch who uses it for her own ends. Monkey quickly returns in the form of a bee after she blew him far away and re-transforms back into Monkey, requesting the fan on behalf [...]