Month Archive for July, 2004

I shouldn't have eaten that whole bag of shrooms

  • Posted by Chris
  • July 12, 2004

From the "you can't make this stuff up" department: A Delaware college student ate a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms and drove around in a pair of stolen cars before arriving, confused, on a mountain in northwest Connecticut, police said.
Oh how I long for those crazy college days where one might wake up and say "I [...]

Please don't use "itch" as a transitive verb

  • Posted by Chris
  • July 5, 2004

Even though it's apparently technically legitimate, one of my biggest pet peeves is the use of the word "itch" as a verb, as in "he itched the bug bite". Blech. I double over and cringe in disgust. You scratch a bug bite, or an itch, or anything similar. You don't itch [...]

4th of July ruined again: can't go to Bahrain

  • Posted by Chris
  • July 2, 2004

The U.S. State Department is issuing a warning cautioning Americans against traveling to Bahrain for fear of terrorist attacks, which means that once again my 4th of July plans for this weekend have been completely messed up. I guess they don't really understand that some people made plans a long time ago to visit [...]