First things first: I’d like to publicly thank the people who Googled the following terms and inexplicably decided to click on the link that led them to NGIP: “right side pain at my waist, through up and felt better” buddha “sex with skulls” <- NGIP is currently the #1 result for this one - woo [...]

Debate about how to pronounce the upcoming years is heating up. I mean, we’ve been chugging along since the new millenium with “Two Thousand, Two Thousand One, etc.” and all of a sudden some people out there will be changing this pattern in January with “Twenty Ten”. The International Olympics Committee and Vancouver 2010  are [...]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been caught at an Undocumented Workers Ball without a lick of Spanish to use for decent conversation. It’s so embarrassing. Once I’m discovered, I’m relegated to the children’s area or the punch bowl table, where people resort to wild gestures or yelling to communicate with me. I’m [...]