Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Tag
Comedy

18 Jul 2003, 13:41 p.m.

Weekend Plans

Yes, this conversation took place near an authentic water cooler. "I have grandiose laundry plans for the weekend. There's gonna be detergent, there may even be fabric softener." "That's going a little too far for …

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18 Jul 2003, 12:16 p.m.

Dreams Too Weird to Recapitulate, So Instead

This morning I saw a bit of Reading Rainbow and thought two things: What if Reading Rainbow is a huge payola scam for certain publishers? LeVar Burton in a back room shaking down Random House …

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17 Jul 2003, 9:59 a.m.

"buy / my / album"

First there was The Holy Tango of Poetry, and now we have the much more profane version which includes Jewel.

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15 Jul 2003, 18:22 p.m.

One subscriber signed up for one of Salon Premium's benefits,…

One subscriber signed up for one of Salon Premium's benefits, a free six-month subscription to Mother Jones, and accidentally called it "Mother Hubbard."

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14 Jul 2003, 15:16 p.m.

More good Achewood strips: loathing and fear. …

More good Achewood strips: loathing and fear.

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11 Jul 2003, 11:22 a.m.

My boss Patrick was ahead of the curve on this…

My boss Patrick was ahead of the curve on this one, forwarding an early report around the office and urging us to watch the Real video. The aspect of the Capital Times story that struck …

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09 Jul 2003, 21:17 p.m.

Interview with a Fish

You must read this now.

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07 Jul 2003, 10:07 a.m.

From a Meeting

Colleague: "That would be hard!" Me, in JFK accent: "We do things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..."

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02 Jul 2003, 16:59 p.m.

"Weirdly, this is never called irony, even though every other bloody thing that anyone ever says is."

A very interesting history and analysis of "irony." (via Electroside)

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30 Jun 2003, 14:39 p.m.

Some people misspell "Salon" as "Solon," which makes me think…

Some people misspell "Salon" as "Solon," which makes me think that we're writing a magazine for Greek lawmakers of antiquity. But the other day my colleague performed an accidental transformation cipher and thanked a reader …

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