1720

My friends' art gallery and living space caught on fire a few nights ago and they lost their sweet pet doggie, countless pieces of art and their home.

1,719

Apparently, being an insurance company shill and shouting the most innane lies works.

Good job, assholes.

1,718

The new woman living across from us is a yelling Armenian harpie from hell. She yells at and nags her daughter ALL DAY EVERY DAY, and I can hear her making her daughter cry constantly. Her voice has this specific tone that cuts through glass, wall, and bone. I have noticed that the sound of her voice is literally starting to make my stomach hurt when I hear it. She must be stopped.

1,717

28 year olds with cystic fibrosis.

1,716

The line at the Post Office. The one I could have waited on if I'd known my 3:00 call was about to get called off. The one I won't wait on til at least tomorrow because it's the seventh circle of hot out there and I don't want to leave my apartment again. Ever.

1,715

Not knowing if I should go with 1,715 to account for a doubling-up, or 1,714 to make up for the evidently-skipped 1,698.

1,714

Having a call canceled 4 minutes before it was scheduled. And this after having been pushed back twice. Um, you're the ones begging for press, are you freaking kidding me here?

1,713

STOP using the word "cougar" in relation to women. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT.

1,713

Have you ever paid attention to the lyrics of "Tennessee Waltz"?

That's some cold-blooded shit.

1,712

People who talk on cell phones in saunas. (They don't, however, talk on them in the steam room.)

1,711

People who make excessive noise in the sauna and/or steam room. Yes, we know its hot in there. THAT'S WHY WE ARE IN THERE.

1,710

Calling attention to a payment irregularity from a publication I write for... and being told by the Ed Asst that if I had kept my mouth shut I would have been paid twice for the assignment and "they would NEVER have noticed."

Honesty gets you nowhere, and karma is a lie we truth-tellers tell ourselves.

1,709

Pissed bloggers who think that 1,699 comes right after 1,697.

_{don't hit me}

1,708

Photo-enforced intersections. Do we want to get used to cameras watching us all the time? Do voters not see the literary reference here?

1,707

Someone got shot three times in the head in front of the building next door to mine. Tell me why I live in the city, please?

1,706

And then getting the ticket in the mail - $500 bucks. Stupid Los Angeles.

1,705

Having just put plates on new car and then driving through a photo enforced stop light (right-turn on red - is this REALLY that big a deal??)

1,704

Having to buy a new car in shitty economy.

1,703

Pets dying.

1,702

Michael Jackson still dominating headlines. Hey America! He made made sometimes entertaining pop music but that's about it. If Ghandi died to today he would get about a day's worth of headlines. Stephen Hawking, page E4.