This is pretty great. I just wish someone had handed him a fluorescent lightbulb.

Via Michael.

As you might have guessed, I'm back from Chicago. And for all the snark and bitching previous posts about the city have contained, I was really charmed by it. Apparently great things can happen when millions of people decide to huddle together for warmth. Everywhere we went seemed totally unpretentious and welcoming, and I came away much more excited by the town than I was after my previous weekend-long trip (during which I had just enough time to note the Chi-town cliches, then go home).

Catherine's neighborhood seems like a great place to live, and I felt at home right away. I'm pretty much counting on a godawful winter to send her scurrying home to DC in a year's time.

However, I still maintain that scripted comedy is innately superior to improv.

The band has posted instructions for how to circumvent the copy protection put on its newest CD by their label. Good for them.