I suppose that chocolate redi-whip might not be the world’s least appetizing looking food. I suppose it’s possible that somewhere…
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In the words of the immortal Olivia Newton John, let’s get political… yes I think the headband is constricting bloodflow to my brain, but that would only put me on par with those of us who…
Today’s the deadline for programs to submit their grant agreements for the upcoming year. And by “Deadline” I mean “suggested submission date.” Nothing dies if somebody…
I don’t care to gamble, and I don’t play team sports. I think this may have something to do with my basic risk aversion - I don’t like to be subjected to the vagaries of fate…
This came to me from my friend Lori, who knows I’m into the ju-bu thing. It’s that magical intersection of koan and kvetch, the Tribal Tao:
Take only what is given. Own nothing…
We get to the small regional airport and we want to check one bag through to San Francisco. We’ve already gotten boarding passes on line so I’m expecting minimal additional delays. …
Having been up in NEPA (that’s what the locals call North-east Pennsylvania, which now that I type it out is a region that crys out for an acronym) one short week before the Pennsylvania 500 roared…
The fire-escape emergency stairwell is near my desk, so I sometimes use it for short trips to other floors. That’s how I know that the landing on those stairs closest to my desk has two…
I have a whole bunch of little notes that don’t amount to a whole post but why should that hold me back?
I should recognize that I’m not being a gracious conversationalist…
I have to start to trust information from family members. When my fatherinlaw told me to watch out for the Giant Hogweed, I thought he was flashing back on one of my favorite…
One of the things that makes blogging so valuable to me, as I’ve mentioned before, is the sense of community and support I so often feel among my on-line colleagues. You guys have given…
I’ve been thinking a bit about the blackout and how easily we overcame it. No widespread looting, no statewide wilding, no revolution of forest creatures overwhelming suburbs and returning…
It seems that a few words of advice are in order. I keep on encountering information on what not to do on a first date. “Don’t talk about other women.” “Don’t…
So I’m in the midst of reading budget submissions from our 99 grantees. Some are really high quality, and some make me wonder. Like the one that wants to use our money to pay for,…
I’m getting nibbles. It’s not that I’m trying to sell anything or looking for work or to hire somebody. These are actual nibbles. And since I dont’ do the I have a headache. I want to take a nap and then go home. Yes, in that order. Are either of these things going to happen? Not any damn time soon. Tonight I tutor and till…
I’m gonna dump the crap I’m reading now. Maxine Hong Kingston? Sociology of suburbia? Biography of a guitar god? Passe’, all of it totally passe’. …
The news story made me angry. “An unnamed woman,” they reported, “crashed her vehicle into the seawall at Ocean Beach in an suicide attempt.” She injured herself badly,…
We are trying to be patient. W, the young man who lives downstairs with the huge scar over his skull, the heavy gait, the one who never drives, whose voice is thick and loud and poorly articulated…
On my two-block walk from the office to the bus terminal, I saw an unremarkable post office truck make an unremarkable left turn from Beale Street south onto Mission Street east. As the truck…
I rarely have dreams about famous people. I did have one a few nights ago, but don’t remember too much of it. I was in a small cramped room with Bobby Knight, the boorish assaultive…
There are new streetlights across the street, sleek and black and vaguely retro in a futuristic way. They remain dark at night, dwarfed by the lamps currently bolted onto the crude utility poles…
I’d like to think we’re a “visually-impaired sensitive” household. Kel works full-time with the blind, and is going for a masters in the field. I used to do a little…
Enough of the maudlin stuff. I’ve been sick all week but I’m feeling almost human today, and ready to start criticizing and belittling the world again. Did you miss me, during…
The good news: I now have a bunch more television stations. The bad news: I now have a bunch more crappy television stations. I’m agog at how lame something can be and still make…
This has been among the most intense weekends I’ve ever endured, on the heels of a few pretty damn intense weeks. I’ve had a cold for eight days, I drove 900 miles in 28 hours, and…
Growing up, my parents loved me so much that they tried to teach me the hard lessons, the ones that make for a hard childhood but an honest understanding of this cold world in which we live. “Do…
* I was thinking that it would be cool if there were some cheap steakhouse where you could order your food and have a big pimp get you all wasted and ply you with all sorts of illicit activities as…