I think the blogging experiment is pretty much over. I’ll leave it here until the 10th so it’ll be two full months, but I haven’t created a new entry in about a week, and that’s because there’s been no need. Does anyone really give the northern half of a southbound rat what book I’m reading […]

Such a glorious day to walk to the Post Office and get a money order for my yearly police whatever-it-is donation (we don’t want cops in the rear view when we’re going 50 in a 35 zone, but we’re not long in looking for them when there’s a crack dealer standing outside our kids’ school, […]

Miracles: The Holiday Album. The whole damned thing as loud as I can play it without disturbing Betty or the nice elderly couple across the street. Why? Well, because it’s such a beautiful, sunny October day with such a lovely breeze that I thought I should open the windows and let in some fresh air […]

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, and if you want, you can even pick your friend’s nose, but you can’t pick your family. You get what you get and that’s it, like it or not. I’m the universal “get along” of mine; I get along with my father and stepmother, […]

Many people don’t get Columbus Day as a holiday (and I’m one of them), but it did make me think of the holidays to come. Thanksgiving (ooooh, pumpkin pie), then Christmas and all the festive decorations that accompany the Christmas season. I can just imagine what that’s going to mean for the house next door. […]

Androgynous. Sociological observations…..yeah, sure–whatever. Brad Roberts can sing anything he wants; I just like the sound of his voice. I don’t remember (if I ever knew) what he looks like and I couldn’t pick him out of a crowd of two, but I’d know that voice anywhere!

Garnier Fructis Long & Strong leave-in treatment. Okay, the name sounds a little like a porn flick and I would not have chosen the funky round green bottle (is it supposed to make me think of a melon or Granny Smith apple or something?) but I love this stuff! Hair (it is an entity in […]

Commercials piss me off by their very existence, but there’s something I just don’t understand. In our supposedly politically correct world, why is it okay to portray men as dull-witted, football-watching idiots who can’t even do something so simple as make a phone call to buy car insurance, or look after the kids for a […]

A POX upon the idiot who decided one o’clock in the morning was a good time to test the Emergency Broadcast System! I fell asleep at some point during (whatever forgettable show was on The Science Channel at 2300h) and was most rudely awakened by the EBS. I stumbled in here to shut down the […]

Happiness Writes White I’d never heard of HD before in my life, then came across a link on Slashdot about their new CD being available for free, legal download. I thought it was either brilliant publicity for a band that really had had enough of the music industry, or a way to get some publicity […]