December 6, 2001

NYT (Free registration required, bla bla bla): Email is thirty today!
Who would have thought? And how the hell did I survive the first twenty years of my life without it? It's become such an intricate part of my life that I caught myself last week, in a moment of kafkaesque weakness, wishing for an automated email delivery system that would relieve me of the painful task of writing those Christmas cards ...

And what better time than the Holidays to encourage your kids to become war-happy, foaming-at-the-mouth, flag-saluting Americans? After all - there's a plastic GI Joe, in camouflage garb and outfitted with a precise replica of the latest automatic weapon, sitting on the shelf of your neighborhood Toys'R'Us, just waiting for your 5-year old to be taken home, admired, studied, and cast in his own private mini-war against turban-wearing, bearded foreigners.

Worst job in Singapore [Thanks, Luke]

But on the bright side: Seems fishnet tights, blue hair, studded chokers, and Metallica action figures are recession-proof: Goth is hot.