Here’s a photo of my friend Nital and I at her 30th birthday party last night:

And here’s a promotional image of Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart from the movie Just Friends, in which Reynolds is wearing a fat suit:

I’m not wearing a fat suit.
Here’s a photo of my friend Nital and I at her 30th birthday party last night:

And here’s a promotional image of Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart from the movie Just Friends, in which Reynolds is wearing a fat suit:

I’m not wearing a fat suit.

A clever graffiti artist painted a sign in my neighborhood like this back in 1989 when the first Tim Burton Batman movie came out.

2009.

My contribution to the elevation of American political discourse. But don’t worry, the guy deserves it.

If you’re not familiar with Glenn Beck’s cutting-edge, contemporary “humor,” please note that the cover to his book is a slam on the poster for Super Size Me, a movie that came out five years ago.
In a Newsmax review Beck is quoted as saying “‘political correctness is the biggest threat this nation faces today.’” Really? Reviewer Lowell Ponte bizarrely describes Beck as “waif-like” before explaining Beck’s “evident appeal”: “his face stares outward with large blue eyes and a gentle expression of innocent bewilderment. He looks child-like.”
Shalampti: the dreary state, peculiar to all freelance writers, of not knowing which unfunded project to begin next. — Sandra Tsing Loh, A Year in Van Nuys.