…people in the Stater Brothers parking lot can take one look at you and decide you look tired enough that they need to return your cart for you. The gentleman didn’t ask, he just swept by and said, “I’ll take that.” He had a cart full of groceries and was on his way to his [...]

…you flip on the TV before the baby falls asleep on you, realize TJ Hooker (with 70′s William Shatner) is on, realize your hands are too busy to change the channel, and decide you don’t mind watching the show. For the record, the show is truly, truly awful. Check it out.

I’ve been thinking it would be nice to let people know I’m attempting to blog regularly. I don’t know which people exactly. Maybe some unidentified droves of people I’m sure would find this nonsense interesting. Except I don’t want anyone to know who writes this bilge. Or I don’t want them to be able to [...]

Back in my day there was no such thing as President’s Day. Back in my day, there were these two guys, Washington and Lincoln, presidents whose lives and accomplishments we considered so noteworthy as to be deserving of celebration. Their birthdays were therefore honored as national holidays. Today, Washington, Lincoln and presumably forty-odd other presidential [...]

The above is a working title for my new screenplay. The movie is about a blog which mysteriously returns to life after being cloistered in its own house for two months by a tiny yet tyrranical overlord. The only reason I’m writing this is because I had a dream a weekend or two ago that [...]

We went out dancing Friday night. There are lots of events the week before Halloween, so the lindy scene tends to be even more of a party than it usually is. Folks are dressed up in costumes that make them sweat half to death while they dance. Really good dancers turn out after months of [...]

If I had waited until tomorrow, it would’ve been six months since my last blog update. Nathan’s been dead-listing people, and I find I don’t like being dead-listed. I want to have a most definitely living and vital presence on the internet. I want to leave a cyber legacy (ironic remark. still don’t have that [...]

I may have talked about this before, but if I can’t remember, chances are neither can you. I am indebted to The Blarg’s recent post for generating my thoughts as stated below. Freedom. I believe it can be conceived of in two primary ways. Firstly, there is “freedom from.” We may conceive of freedom as [...]

For Erin and Sarah Shead: I just finished watching North and South and boy was it awesomer than awesome and boy do I need a poster of Richard Armitage. Will he be in the upcoming edition of Teen Beat, do you think? For Angelo: Where can I get Illy coffee cheaper than at the market? [...]

Conversation the first, overheard in the loo… Girl in the bathroom #1: I wanna go on Thunder Mountain. Girl in the bathroom #2: What? Magic Mountain? Girl in the bathroom #1: No Thunder Mountain. Girl in the bathroom #2: I don’t know that one. Where is it? Girl in the bathroom #1: Um, Pioneerland. Conversation [...]