i had a little kids electric toothbrush back in the day.

it was a Fat Albert electric toothbrush where there was fat albert being fat and he had a tooth brush sticking out of his head.

but my favorite show was Happy Days, and of course Fonzie was the best.

so i, in my mind, invented a Fonzie electric tooth brush.

instead of the brush jutting out of his head, i wanted it to come out of his thumb.

and i wanted him to say his famous “hey” when you flicked on the tooth brush

but because it was an electric tooth brush it would say

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hey its an animated dealie thing.

hey billy corgan why isnt hole opening for the pumpkins?

today is his last day. hes moving to cnn

i have written about mark before. he came to us a few summers ago as a college intern and was so great we kept him around. i got blasted with him on monday as a farewell.

on the right is mr johannes from germany. he was here for a few months in an exchange program of sorts. this is what he wrote to the staff today in his farewell email. although it’s not typical inverted pyramid style, the best part of his note is as the end.

Hey everybody,

today is my last day at the Times.

The two months at the Times have been great. It was an honor and also a lot of fun to work at your outstanding newspaper. I want to thank every one of you for helping me and making this experience so great. I learned a lot and wrote a lot of stories for my newspaper in Munich. I would love to stay here for a longer time, but unfortunately time flew and I have to go back to Germany. My boss wants me to work on Monday.

I’ll definitely miss The Times and also the way you work. There is a far more investigative approach in every story you write than in an average German newspaper. In my first day I saw Angela Spaccia in Maywood’s City Hall. In my last week here I’ve seen her on TV as a defendant.

So, thanks again, I would love to hear from you.

Stay in touch.
Best,
Johannes

For as large of a paper as we are we have very few critics. one reason might be because of what our german friend alluded to: people who have actually worked here this century know that the high level of journalism that made the paper what it is is still very much alive and well here and being practiced every day.

which may be one reason our people keep being poached by those who want what we’ve got.

two questions:

1. how is this OKGO’s fourth single off their latest record? was that cd THAT popular?

2. how come someone doesn’t make OKGO video laureate already? they clearly run circles around everyone else in filmmaking.

Q. Do you really still play video games?

A. ive been around forever. i have had almost every major video game system including the Philips CD-i. i love playing games, but i have to admit that because of my advanced age some of the newfangled dealies make me nauseous.

with that said the two games ive been playing a lot lately are Madden Football 2010 and this weird iphone app called Bookworm.

the truest showed me Bookworm on our flight back from Chicago and i’ve been addicted ever since. its a simple game, a lot like word search with a lil twist.

as someone who loves words, i embraced it immediately and seriously i wake up early to play it and go to sleep late spelling words. the score on the right is something i was able to accomplish after playing for nearly two days straight without dying.

i even played it drunk last night walking home from the subway.

im not sure i have another two days in me spelling those words but id really like to break three million to feel like i got my $2.99 worth.

loving ladies

football stadium filled with hamburger helper

venus de pizza