My friend B shot this pic somewhere in the KC area:
MadMania
Faith, Books, and Stuff
Author: madman
“May you inherit a hotel of a hundred rooms, and may you be found dead in every one of them.”
A couple of years ago I went on vacation and instead of going floating and camping, I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. While I was in the hospital undergoing treatments you couldn’t use on people in Guantanamo, Heather stayed with me almost the entire time. After I had been there […]
“…and the music that we play are the oldies of today and we think those kids are strange….”
We have four bottles of dish soap. I’m not hoarding, I wasn’t stocking up for the snonami, and we don’t have individual dish soap preferences. It simply comes down to this: doing the dishes is our daughters’ job. They don’t like to do dishes. Heck, I don’t like to do dishes, either–that’s why I had […]
My friend Kaleb, another logophile, coined this phrase. It describes the phenomena when a wife addresses her husband with a sentence beginning with, “We need to…,” and by this statement what she means is, “You need to….”
There is a vendor truck in Kansas City called Gyro Express. They don’t make my most favorite gyros, but they are amazing. However, they come with this incredible chili sauce. It tastes so good, but every time I eat it I get super sick. “You ever have an addiction that you know is bad for […]
A couple of months ago at work one of the secretaries brought a Chinese user down for some assistance with her laptop on the wifi network. The laptop had an English keyboard, but the OS was entirely Chinese. “Ni hao,” I said, almost entirely exhausting the Chinese I learned at my old job. “Oh, you […]
“I feel like I just made out with a habanero!”
Alan Gordon’s is one of a series of mysteries set around 1200 AD and based on characters from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The main characters are jesters who belong to the Fool’s Guild, who in this particular novel attempt to solve a murder and prevent the fall of Constantinople. Judging the book by its cover like […]