http://www.shplang.com/blog It's like that scene in Ghostbusters with the exploding eggs and shit. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:52:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 999. Anticlimaxes. 1,000. Seriously, why did Phil Hartman have to die? http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=62 957. If you're not on a bike anymore, you can take off the helmet. 958. I saw a homeless man the other day who looked just like George Clooney. What a stark reminder that looks aren't everything! 959. Library fines. I slipped up and had to pay the library twelve bucks last ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=61 929. Ah, spring! The time when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and I remember that my second-floor apartment isn't air conditioned. 930. Clicking the link to an online video, sitting impatiently through an ad, and then finding out you can't watch the video because you don't ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=60 901. I know this was a long time ago, but it always bothers me whenever I hear John Fogerty sing "toinin' and boinin'" instead of "turning and burning" in "Proud Mary". That's my problem, and I accept it, but still. 902. Speaking of bands I heard on the radio this week, ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=59 882. Hey, you know what? Don't use the word "metaphorical" to drive home the fact that you're being metaphorical in your writing. Don't say "the tension filled the room like metaphorical storm clouds," okay? Just say "like storm clouds." 883. Also, that's a simile. 884. Plus, it's admittedly not a very good ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=58 864. The ice cream man is back in town with his big loud truck and his massive PA system that plays that song with the little bells that you can't get out of your head for hours after you hear it. 865. There will never be an ice cream man who ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=57 862. I started compiling this list over a year ago. I really thought I would have been done by now. I wish I could say the delay was due to a limited number of things that piss me off, but the sad fact of the matter is that the ultimate ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=56 846. Boy, the hallway down at my office building sure smelled like someone's ass today. 847. Who knew that a two-minute visit to Grand & Toy was enough time to get Kim Wilde's version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" stuck in my head for the rest of the day? 848. I ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=55 822. I have "Theme From Rocky" written on an index card. I know I wrote it down because it's got something to do with an item that I wanted to add to this list. But I wrote it down two or three weeks ago, I haven't posted anything new since ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=54 798. Daylight saving time. I've done it twice a year for nearly thirty years now, and I'm still not a hundred percent sure what it's all about. 799. Hell, I don't even know how it's written. Is it Daylight saving time? Savings time? Saving's time? Does it get capitalized? Ask any ... http://www.shplang.com/blog/?p=53