A highschool buddy from the motherland (Wisconsin, obviously) spent his winter building the world’s largest self-supported igloo.
It died last week. Rest in peace, Bigloo.
03/14 2010
03/14 2010
03/10 2010
Andy Richter’s entire appearance on Regis & Kelly. His first on TV since the mess. This is great.
03/10 2010
Link: BAM! BAM! BAM!: A COB Three!
Okay, I’m sorry. No more epic posts about bodily functions for awhile. In fact… Let’s talk about Conan stuff! Whaddya say? Is that cool with everybody?
First off, I’ve had multiple people ask me about Twitter accounts today. Let me make it absolutely clear: The only Twitter account that Conan…
Knew it. Other Conan accounts are fake. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet folks!
03/10 2010
Link: A quick interview with me about shoes at Shoe Buff
(via putthison)
Reblogging for a few reasons…one of them: Jesse leading me to Willie’s Shoe Service here in LA. I have a great pair of shoes that need some love, and this looks like the perfect place to do it!
03/09 2010
Currently obsessed with: the eephus, the most useless-yet-effective baseball pitch known to man, maybe?
03/09 2010
Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy.
Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer.
Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place. Had he lung cancer, breast cancer, or colon cancer, then the cost of the drug — $4,555 per treatment, two times a month — would be totally covered by Alberta’s version of OHIP.
But he doesn’t. And so he is not only a victim of brain cancer, he is also a victim of arbitrary discrimination.
This must be a lie. Everyone knows Canada’s healthcare system rocks.
(via sds)
