I was absolutely amazed today to discover that no one out there in the tube system has yet created a video morphing the faces of John McCain and Sarah Palin. How could this be? As someone who possesses the technology, skill, and crazy necessary to create such a video, I felt it was [...]

Greetings! I am the Normal Typeface, and I will be telling the events of this post in the third person.
Hi! I’m Italics, Normal’s slightly inebriated cousin. Although I’m originally from Italy, as my name suggests, I’m not actually from Pisa, although I love the tower they have there. I will be representing Erik’s internal thought [...]

Last Sunday evening brought an extremely unique blogging experience. I made eye contact with someone on my blogroll and neither of us realized it until a minute after it happened and we had already passed each other.
This blog has already manifested itself in actual face-to-face interaction several times. There was the guy from [...]

I had a Twitter Moment this afternoon. It was communication that would not have taken place on any other communication platform, but Twitter made it work. For several months now, I’ve been following the Bad Astronomy blog. I visited it several years go when investigating the prime “skeptic” websites (Bad Astronomy has [...]

Most days, I get to watch a few minutes of my favorite Basque celebrity television chef, Karlos Arguiñano. Karlos has a daily television program where he cooks a recipe and tells jokes. He’s the kind of person that is so funny that you’re laughing before he even gets to the punchline. Recently, [...]

Crowds gasped as they looked skyward. Many ran for their lives, while others couldn’t look away. As the leading anglo-photojournalist in Colindres, I bravely ran for my camera. The glowing orbs hung there in the sky, quivering slightly, as if they were watching us. Then, as quickly as they had appeared, [...]

I had a pretty bizarre dream the other night. I was working for the Obama campaign and they needed a new spokesperson. In a rather random pointing motion, Barack chose me out of a crowd of people. “But, I have no idea how to be a press secretary,” I protested. “No [...]

Whenever we go south to Extremadura, we always bring back liters upon liters of extra virgin olive oil and wine. I don’t actually have any photos of the place where I bought the wine I brought back, but I do have a good anecdote.
We traveled to the nearby town of Esparragosa de la Serena. [...]

In the bathroom where I shower, we have a glass shower stall. After about a week of use, it gets little dots over it and must be cleaned. These are calcium deposits from the water that remain when the droplets dry.
When I was a kid, I always thought it strange that my grandparents [...]

The other day, someone found my blog from google.bg. Rather than think, “Oh, that’s Bulgarian Google. I know someone who is moving to Bulgaria,” the first thought that I had was, “Hey, lowercase ‘bg’ has a rotational ambigram equivalent!” For those of you that are not typeface junkies and haven’t read Angels and [...]