Part tragedy, part comedy, check out The Blotter. Here are a few of the complaints called in to the police in Taos, NM, my favorite town on earth.
3:09 p.m., Shoplifting, 200 block Paseo del Pueblo Sur – Complaint that a woman with long blond hair, sunglasses on her head, and wearing all black took of organic items and frozen items and left without paying. She was seen heading onto Los Pandos, driving a bright orange car.
Read on for a few more of my favorites!
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"A Retrosexual man can chop down a tree and make it land where he wants. Wherever it lands is where he wanted it to land."
- from Grau Magus in his anti-metrosexual manifesto, The Retrosexual Code
Want a good laugh? Want a real man? Read on, dear readers. Read on.
(image via Laura Smith Art)
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“ExCUSE me, would you mind if we watched the fashion channel?” said My P.
They slowly turned around to face us. “We’re both Dutch,” said the older one in a slow, methodical voice. “The Netherlands is playing Argentina in the World Cup Finals, and we’re not changing the channel.”
My P. has a dead-pan expression, unrivaled in any country. She looked perturbed. And just a bit bitchy. And, did I notice the beginnings of a pout?
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Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.
Which one is YOUR favorite?
image via TechToons
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"A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?"
She doesn't care what you think."
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