This has been a great weekend of deckening and schneckening. I’ll fill in some of those details later; I don’t have time to deal with the photos right now. In the meantime, it’s…
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Today I am officially illin’, and not in a cool Beastie Boys way. My symptoms don’t make for good reading, but I’m definitely under the weather and listless. But it’s…

I suspect it’s not a trend; it’s probably something that’s been happening all along and I’m just finally noticing it: but I’m seeing more and more women of style and fashion,…

For reasons of pure coincidence, I happen to have lined up five essays having something to do with the physical nature of the place where I work. Easter Sunday was a day of wonderfully sensual…

I think I feel a theme coming on. this is another post that touches upon pizza. and if you’re gonna touch upon my pizza, you’re going to have to wear these gloves. I…

Yesterday was the official birthday of our official no-longer-an-infant. He had a great time with his new crew and here’s a chance to laud the good people at his day care - not only did…

In a delightful change of Chucklehut pace, we’re getting ready for my sister to visit with her husband and daughter on Saturday. They’re staying with us a week, during which time they’ll…

It was a good weekend, and I sure as hell needed one so that was a relief. Saturday we went to the zoo. Zach hadn’t been since he was really small and didn’t much care, but this time…

* 9 mm neoprene reinforced with Kevlar®.
* Rubber-coated ends
* Sounds of prey in distress quickly bring predators into view.
* Call in your limit
* Jezebel Twist Tone Duck…

The ergonomic chair for the employee who will crush anything else! …

I have already proven to myself I’m not the live-blogger type, partly because I have neitehr a wireless connection nor a tv I can see from the computer, and partly because I don’t think…

I am not too good at seeing the Oscar movies before the big night, which I suppose is tonight. I did see that Sunshine movie, which, as a suicidal gay motivational colorblind cokehead juvenile…

My problem right now is that I could not LIVE with myself if I was caught padding my blog with two consecutive re-hash posts. Oh the IGNOMINY. The FUSTIGENCE. The ALBUMEN. Yes,…

Jules mentioned that I sometimes use words that make typists slow down. Me too, my friend, me too. That’s…

In my craven effort to revive my moribund posting practices, here’s a bit of trivia you may find amusing, or depressing, or amupressing perhaps is the word I wish existed to describe how you may…

Hey, welcome back, me! I’ve had a dense but satisfying trip to LA, where I got to get some real quality time with my dad, my step-family (nephew scored a hat trick and two assists in…

While down in LA I ate well. That’s not to say that all I ate was good for me, but I sure as hell enjoyed it. I got to a fine deli much beloved of my youth, and to a hip very Californian…

It’s raining feral plums again. Last weekend (okay, I wrote this a while ago, but let’s…

Ephemera returns! Yeah like you’ve been waiting but here it is anyway....
My neighborhood’s been getting a face lift of sorts - old eyesores are getting gussied up. …
