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Today's Dose Of Shame Is Brought To You By Fox

Dear Self, The reason that news story made no sense to you is because Haeley Vaughn and Haley Barbour are two entirely different people. One is the cute little girl who got kicked off of American Idol during the semi-final round and one is the Governor of Mississippi. That explains why you were so surprised when you heard about the young singer - previously only seen hot-gluing silk flowers to headbands - questioning the constitutionality of the heath care bill. Perhaps you should invest in o...

And I Thought I Was Mad Last Night - UPDATED WITH 100% MORE JUSTICE

First, I'll post the link to my column as soon as I get it. I guess I misunderstood how the whole syndication thing works - the column hits the AP wire today and then gets distributed to papers so the earliest it will go to print is tomorrow. Some papers will have the electronic version up today and as soon as I get one of those links, consider it posted. (I'll get this right eventually, promise.) Anyway, I'm particularly cranky today because I was up most of the night due to a car alarm. For...

And I Thought I Was Mad Last Night

First, I'll post the link to my column as soon as I get it. I guess I misunderstood how the whole syndication thing works - the column hits the AP wire today and then gets distributed to papers so the earliest it will go to print is tomorrow. Some papers will have the electronic version up today and as soon as I get one of those links, consider it posted. (I'll get this right eventually, promise.) Anyway, I'm particularly cranky today because I was up most of the night due to a car alarm. For...

How Do You Say "Jackass" in Polish?

I'm holed up in my office when I hear their rising voices. Now I don't speak Polish, but I do speak panic, and from the tone of what they're saying, I suspect there's trouble afoot. As I hear the slap of flip-flops barreling down the hallway, I think to myself, "Whatever this is can't be good." To backtrack, I spend every Friday from 11-2 hiding in my office when our cleaning ladies come. Mind you, this is the newer service, as we fired the old team due to theft. Also, I realize in an economy...

Balance Is Bullshit Core Conversation Details

For those of you at SXSW this week, here are the details for my core conversation tomorrow with bestselling author/blogger Stephanie Klein: Blogging is a constant balancing act of creating new content, networking, marketing, monetizing and keeping up on the latest social media trends. It also leaves little room to have an offline social life. Popular bloggers will share their secrets on why balance is bullshit and how they really get it all... The session begins at 12:30 PM in Room 8A at the ...

You Realize I'm Not Actually Going To Live Outside, Yes?

Okay first, I have links to a couple of interviews I just did... Here's the article on Suite 101 and here's the link for Pajamas and Coffee In other old business, your emails to Living editors are working and the response to the Humor Hotel columns has been great! (I suspect emails from subscribers hold more weight than non-subscribers, just FYI.) My first column comes out on March 23 and if you think I won't mention that a million more times between now and then, well, you'd be wrong. In kee...

The 40 Year Old Property Virgin

Remember that scene in The 40 Year Old Virgin with Catherine Keener and Jonah Hill? Jonah Hill's character goes into Keener's eBay store and wants to buy a pair of spangly silver platform boots with goldfish in the lucite heels. It goes down like this: "Yeah, these are wonderful. I'll take these." "Thanks, they are. They're great. The goldfish just crack me up." "Funny." "Yeah, they are. Yeah." "Yeah. They're cute." "I don't actually sell anything here. I just sell them on eBay." "I don't get...

Galley Copy Winners!

Thanks to all of you who wrote in to your local papers to request they carry Humor Hotel! The Trib's gotten a great response so far, which means hopefully I'll be coming soon to a town near you. (In print.) (But you probably already figured that out.) Anyway, I used a random number generator to pick the winners and they are as follows: Sarah B. - 552 Stephanie S. - 196 Jennifer J. - 555 Rebecca M. - 199 Sarah E. - 332 (Somehow I felt like you guys wouldn't want your whole name spelled out her...

My Fair Lazy Galley Copy Contest - UPDATED

* THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT MANY OF YOU HAVE CONTACTED YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER. THE BAD NEWS IS THAT SOME OF THE EDITORS ARE WORRIED THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR HUMOR HOTEL FOR NO REASON OTHER THAT YOU WANT TO WIN STUFF. AS IT'S NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CONVINCE THESE EDITORS THAT NOT ONLY DO YOU WANT TO WIN BOOKS, YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO BUY THEIR PAPERS TO READ THE COLUMN, I'M SHUTTING THE CONTEST DOWN AS OF 5:00 CST TONIGHT. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY. THANKS FOR PLAYING AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO...

My Fair Lazy Galley Copy Contest

Here's how things look to me: You want an advance copy of My Fair Lazy and I want to be in your newspaper. Should both of these premises be true, I've got a contest for you. I have five copies of the new book that I'll personalize and send to five winners chosen at random. To enter the contest, you have to do the following: 1) Email the features editor of your local newspaper telling them you want them to carry the Humor Hotel package. 2) In your email, include the link to Tribune Media Servi...