Hey, I’m back, just like I said. I’m starting a new project this month in MadMania: you email me a photo that you have personally taken and don’t give me any details about it. I will post the photo and a story I make up based on what I can observe in the photo. Sound […]
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Sooo…I haven’t posted for a while (duh). No apologies, just taking a break. No promises when I will update again, but check back again in October. Go out and enjoy your autumn, the prince of seasons.
So losing my TV has made me more productive (duh). Sunday night I read to the girls seven chapters of The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, Monday night I picked The Baby up from tennis and we went driving around. Tuesday night I went home and cleaned parts of my office, living room, […]
So I was cleaning my study. I hate cleaning. But once in a while, usually while on vacation, I get this urge to clean. Everything. Yes, I’ve seen the meme. The problem with me cleaning, even when I am enjoying it, is that I clean the way I play Skyrim. No, I don’t mean I enter […]
My last employer was a Taiwanese-owned company and I worked with a lot of Chinese / Taiwanese people. One day Yahwen and I were comparing the worst whoopins we ever got as children. Here is his in his words, to the best of my memory: “In Chinese households there is this kind of bump that […]
n., a loud and/or heated argument or brawl, named for the suburb in Dublin, Ireland and its formerly famous (and raucous) Donnybrook Fair.
Ran into my friend Logan last summer. He apologized for not having replied to my email–from two years ago. He said he started a reply, but every time he went to send it he ended up revising it and it is still in his Drafts folder. It sounded funny at the time, but I now […]
Apparently Dennis Rodman has finally met his father. “Philander Rodman Jr., who has acknowledged fathering 29 children by 16 mothers, says he was happy and surprised that his son agreed to meet him late Wednesday.” 29 children by 16 mothers. Wow. Anyway, that’s kind of an unusual name. Philander. What’s that mean, anyhow? According to […]
So you know how you get a song stuck in your head? I’ve had the same one stuck in my head for like three weeks now and it won’t go away. The song is ‘Cuban Pete’ from 1994’s The Mask. It’s really getting on the kids’ nerves, too, because I walk around the house singing it […]
I logged in to my blog control panel to see about penning a new post, and was surprised when I saw one of the phrases searched that brought visitors to my site: Even weirder is that I have a post that matches is almost perfectly.