Archive for the 'Fiction' Category

Great Parking!

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

As someone who works in an office building largely populated by state government employees, I find this product — “I Park Like An Idiot” bumper stickers — to be extremely enticing. Not that, you know, state government employees park poorly or anything… They are definitely not rumored to have assembled a collection of seized pinball machines for […]

Quinn Snider, Cub Reporter

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Exclusive to 1128 - our cub reporter in Nashville went to see Clem Snide (whose new album, End of Love, was released on Tuesday) perform at Grimey’s, a record store in town. In lieu of an actual report, he agreed to submit to a Q&A session. The transcript - unedited except where noted- […]

On eVite…

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

eVite has become somewhat ubiquitous in my circle of friends. It started several years ago when parties were organized via eVite. The organizer would select a stylish background (back-lit martini glasses, an out-of-focus birthday cake, etc.) and type in the e-mail addresses of his/her closest 100 friends. Then we started using eVite to organize […]

* Log

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

It seems a company by the name of reger has a web log service that allows you to make “activity specific web log” entries. For example, they have a special template for a Movie Log entry. It has fields for your thoughts on the movie, the director, duration, length, etc. Well, I […]

District 99 Update

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

If the flyer I got today is any indication, the race for District 99’s House seat is heating up: The Rest of the Story… As Morris has noted, it seems Google has determined that 1128 is the most relevant, highest page-ranked site for information on Mike Seigle, pictured below. Some of you may remember the post […]