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Daily Grumble

I can’t decide what’s more annoying – the ridiculous Extenze commercials or the double-dumbass rubes who think a pill will really make their dicks grow. Never mind the fact that the company knows how dumb their customers are and immediately begins automatically billing their credit cards despite the promise of a 30-day trial period. Apparently the only way out is …

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Seriously. How surreal is it for the world’s richest woman to lecture her audience about cutting costs in a bad economy by recycling clothes and buying cheaper cuts of meat? It’s not bad advice, of course, but when was the last time this billionaire was actually in a grocery store?

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As I just Facebooked: “Joe ponders the futility of activism blogging when the top two searched items in years are ‘Aretha’s hat’ and ‘bacon explosion’.” Image via my pal Kitchenbeard.

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It really annoys me that there’s a misspelled word in the Rachael Ray Diet banner ad on this here website thingy. Can’t do a thing about it. Grrr.

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Note to Manhattan party promoters: Putting your mountain-sized and smokin’ hot musclebear go-go dancer into an XXL size of Depends to evoke the New Year’s Baby? Not so hot. The foot-long novelty safety pin didn’t help either. Great party otherwise. Carry on.

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I think about half of almost 900 unread emails in the JMG box are about Rick Warren, but I’m hoping to plow through most of them on my way to DC tomorrow. My apologies to the JMG tippers, I do appreciate your suggestions and messages. And here I had the inbox whittled down to under 100 just a couple of …

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Crashing Diva

Gotham is being belted with its first snowstorm of the year and already I’ve fallen on my ass, right in front of a window full of women sitting under nail dryers at Dashing Diva. Eight winters in NYC and I still don’t know how to walk on icy sidewalks. Anyway, it’s sucky timing for holiday travel – JFK and LaGuardia …

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For about a week I’ve been getting multiple daily robocalls to my cell that warn me that my car warranty is about to expire. “This is your FINAL notice!” On Sunday they almost filled up my voicemail, so yesterday I waited forever to get an actual person on the line so I could tell them I haven’t owned a car …

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This will be the first weekend in a month that I’ve been home and I was really looking forward to spending it on the couch with the DVR. “Catching up on my stories”, as we’d say in the South. So don’t you know the stupid cable box picked this week to crap out and erase four weeks of shows. I …

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My mom, who is as sharp a cookie as they come, still doesn’t quite understand email. When she was visiting me in September, she lamented that she’d turned her computer off at home and was therefore “missing” her emails. I think she believes that turning off your computer is like unplugging your landline. I explain that just like voicemail, Lady …

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Yeah this is all like totally petty and shit, but it just occurred to me that I am older than our new president. Damn. That’s all I got.

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Bah. And double bah for a “freeze warning.” So much for autumn.

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At the Food Emporium by my place there’s this cashier who is always, always, over the top cheerful. She greets each customer like she’s just unexpectedly run into an old friend. “Oh, hellOOOOO!” She smiles and smiles and when an item won’t scan, instead of grimacing and slamming it back and forth across the reader as most cashiers do, she …

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I’ve watched Heroes twice now and I still have no freekin’ idea what that show is about. Cool effects though.

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Well, capitalism was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it?

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The shelves of the Walgreens on the UES are already groaning under the weight of Halloween crapola. Reindeer blow-pops and singing Santas are probably already in the stockroom.

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OK, listen people. I’ve done my best to keep up with all these social networking doodads. I got a MySpace page for the blog. I’m on Linkedin. I’m on LastFM. I even created a Facebook account, even though I can’t figure out what I’m supposed to do with it. But I give up. Not doing Twitter. Not doing Tumblr. Enough! …

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As much as I admire the Olympic accomplishments of Michael Phelps, I can’t help but wonder about his being proclaimed the greatest Olympian of all time just because of his medal count. Others are going even farther and calling him the greatest athlete of all time. By what measure? Phelps spent a total of, what, ten minutes in the pool? …

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The new bringing your USB keyfob over to a friend’s house so you can plug it into their TV and make them look at photos of your Atlantis cruise is the old bringing your projector over to a friend’s house so you can make them look at slides of your Amazon eco-tour. I’m just sayin’.

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