August 2010
77 posts
The Long Dog →
Holy smoking crow, that was a day. But which one? I don’t know what day it is. Seriously: today I thought, what, Tuesday? Wednesday? The Fair planes smooth all our usual temporal benchmarks. It’s…
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Everyone loves the Owl →
It’s a warm night. Could be June; could be July. Except of course it isn’t, and that makes all the difference in the world.
“Summer’s over,” daughter sighed. She was sitting outside with her chin…
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Friday: Big Nothing →
Sorry, I’m spent, and in a very bad mood continued over from last night by popular demand. I was watching “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” thinking “amateurs.” But it’s off to the Fair again….
Post around 10 AM →
Stay tuned.
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Oh rally dadday →
Lately I’ve been FFing through old TV shows I find, looking for things – clues, locations, inadvertent documentaries, horrible old interior design ideas. I don’t actually want to watch the shows,…
FOOD or NOT FOOD →
Note: forgot to post the post last night, so today has a bonus Bleat.
I love when the mail delivers something that instantly screams out to be A COLUMN NOW, please. I have a piece due Friday for…
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Personal Theme Songs →
We learned why a neighbor’s house had skid-marks on the lawn and a pair of knocked-down trees: while we were away for the weekend, a car thief being chased by the police had shot through the…
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Hi-Ho the Merry-O →
The tide pounded us back, but we struggled into the heaving waves, tossed back on the hard shore, rising, struggling forward again. With a mighty effort I picked up the raft and hurled it forward…
Instinct →
Hectic and pell-mell, the day; the blogging, the videos, three interviews, karate lesson with daughter, and now the house is full of womenfolk playing bunco. Up early tomorrow to sign a passel of…
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Merponies →
Cool, cloudy day. Couldn’t get the brain to play along, and the day was just a smear or work – until it wasn’t, and then I roused the child from her machinery and told her we were off on errands….
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Literally Something →
There’s a chill in the nighttime air lately. I’d like to think it’s a passing thing, but everything is a passing thing.
Twitter comments I need to back up: I said I’d discovered a link between the…
Comic Sins: Cringe →
Oh, right: we have to do this, don’t we. Go HERE.
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The Salesman →
I installed some new security / firewall software, and it is a nightmare: somehow I set it to make a short, jarring buzz alert every time something on my computer wants to access the internet, and I…
LA Dining 1962, con’t →
Meet Dave! If you go here.
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The next new site →
A weekend of odd, neurotic weather. Rain! Sun! Rain during sun! Hot and humid, then cool and dry ten minutes later. Torrents of rain in the evening, temps 20 degrees below what they were the night…
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Friday! →
The standard Thursday night shut-down is in FULL FORCE, having spent the day yapping and typing and the rest. Since I start work on Sunday night this is more or less my Friday, except there’s…
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Black and White World: Crazy, Man, Crazy →
We begin a new series of B&W World movies: fifties teen crap. Go HERE.
Muddah, Faddah →
Note to anyone who runs a camp: this is how you contact parents.
“Hello, lucky parent of a wonderful child, who’s having a great happy time being in perfect health, this is the camp…
Paper, I said →
Plumbing. I am not a plumber. Yet I plumb. The wife assumes I can plumb, so I get down under the sink to make things worse, and generally succeed. This problem: the sprayer hose in the…
Comic Sins: Spyhand! →
Oy. Go HERE.
