File under.

File under Issue-driven campaigns:
Trading insults with his political enemies, Senator John Kerry bitterly railed against what he called “the Republican attack squad that specializes in trying to destroy people.” His aides reportedly ran to calm Kerry down before his eyes turned green, his shirt ripped, and he morphed into Howard Dean.

File under Cheap onanism jokes:
George Michael is retiring from the music business.  Let’s give him a hand--whoops, too late.

File under Should have put in list of minority groups it’s acceptable to discriminate against:
Indie bands that try to get a cheap hit by covering some relatively recent, much-loved song.  And if you’re going to cover “Laid,” you damn well better hit the high notes in “Prettttyyyyyyyyyy” as well as the guy from James.

File under: Total badass:
I’ve had a pair of mirrored closet doors lying around my living room for a week because the city’s recycling department won’t pick up bulky items from multi-unit dwellings--and even if they did, they won’t pick up mirrored closet doors.  So, you know, that’s two strikes.  Today I looked the closet doors in the face--although it was actually my face since they were mirrored doors--and challenged them to a fight.  They accepted. We battled it out.  It got nasty.  We didn’t play fair.  But by the end of the scrap, they were broken and shattered and lying in the dumpster.

You might say that I should pick on someone my own size.  Well, it’s true...they’re not my size.  They’re seven feet.  And I still totally won.

In fact, I kicked their glass.

Okay, that was worse than the pun I made involving Windex and “You know what I’m sprayin’”. 

Posted by melly  on  03/11  at  06:43 PM

Dude, those old mirrored closet doors were just a nail gun away from being a MIRRORED CEILING.  You have to think these things through.  As the song goes, “Breaking up (mirrored closet doors) is shard to do.”

Oh and by the way, mirrored closet doors? Man, there’s more George Michael jokes right there than I can shake a stick at. 

Posted by dan  on  03/11  at  08:39 PM

i’m way out of my league here.

Posted by romy  on  03/11  at  10:23 PM

Greg Howard. Writing about the things that shatter. err, matter.

Posted by Dani  on  03/12  at  12:20 AM

You just earned yourself several million years of bad luck.  Not just for breaking the mirrors, but for GLOATING about it.

Oh well, them’s the breaks.

Posted by Lor  on  03/12  at  04:26 AM

Not like I needed it, but now I have even more reason to adore George Michael.  Shut up.

Posted by EV  on  03/12  at  05:54 AM

Greg, I think attacking those defenseless mirrored doors was a terrible thing to do.  Now go reflect on what you’ve done.

Posted by nikita  on  03/12  at  07:27 AM

My image of you has totally turned around. 

Posted by richard  on  03/12  at  08:36 AM

I can’t seem to stop picturing about 20 little Greg Howards jumping out of the broken pieces, and battling it out with the big guy. 

Posted by richard  on  03/12  at  08:37 AM

Did you keep any pieces of the mirror to stick to your shoe?

Posted by Gopi  on  03/12  at  08:58 AM

I can’t help envisioning Greg as Bruce Lee in the final ‘Hall of Mirrors’ battle against the evil Han in Enter The Dragon.

Posted by Dirty Dan Sin  on  03/12  at  09:59 AM

Damn you, Dirty Dan Sin. You took the words right outta my mouth.

Posted by jaden  on  03/12  at  10:09 AM

Why did I know you would go there?
So you got rid of them...good. smile

Posted by anna  on  03/12  at  03:19 PM

I’m afraid, Greg, that knowing you actually HAD mirrored closet doors, I must completely rethink my opinion of you, actually maybe it’s not my opinion, but merely my image, or shall we say, your image . . uh, I think I’m gonna shut up now. And scrub my mind clean.

Posted by Jules  on  03/14  at  02:42 PM