May 2007

Look, it was necessary, OK? Specifically, they’d begun to stink — I guess you can get by for only so long being covered in Cat Spit before the spit itself goes rancid. Now, I can deal with the scratches. I can deal with scrubbing shampoo into a cat’s back while it’s desperately trying to relieve

(warning: Rant ahead. You have been warned) So, this afternoon, I was exiting a media event in the city, and looking for a cab, along with a small group of fellow journalists. I wandered out of the event building, and spotted one of my compatriots. I asked him if this was the Taxi queue, and

Can you remember what you were doing? Chances are, you can’t. But I surely can. Because I was panicking. Panicking about my wife, who had spent the last week in hospital, thirty-odd weeks pregnant and with waters that had already burst. Y’know, when that normally happens, birth happens right after, but not in this case.

I never did understand that lyric. Then again, Will Smith is a multimillionaire*, and I just have male pattern baldness. So he probably wins on that score. And that’s a wonderful** segue into something you could win — one of my current “let’s clear stuff out of the house” eBay auctions! How have you lived

That Halo 3 Xbox 360 sold — for a cool $24,300. Of course, it would have been more noteworthy had Microsoft followed correct eBay etiquette, and charged an additional 50% for shipping “just to make a profit”… To put that into some sort of perspective, that means that Master Chief is worth a bit over