CALL ME NICK
Over the past few years I’ve had a few nicknames thrown at me. Mostly it’s “Dan the Man,” which (as I think I’ve said here before) never seemed…
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CANDLELIGHT DINNER
ferociously in silence waiting
for the handle to start turning
eyes ablaze with sudden hating
like the candles you are burning
sitting on the…
"You know, some people might think what you’re doing is pretty rude.”
“Rude?”
“Yeah. Insensitive. Impolite. Rude.”
He…
As I sit here, men with pneumatic drills are tearing up the sidewalk in front of my house. A flatbed full of conduit blocks my driveway. The street is littered with chunks of concrete and…
So a very nice woman who works with my department just stopped by my desk to ask me about the words she’s using in a report. English is not her first language, and though she’s very…
You want to hear something Scarry? “Allting Runt Onkring.” That’s the name of a Richard Scarry book my friends have for their very young…
ee cummings wrote of plums
enpurpled, dewy, promising
cascading nectar
chin-dripping good
I think he called them icy
and that poem always cooled me
made me…
I’d like to say I put the “cauc” in “Legislative Caucus,” but maybe that’s picking the wrong syllable.
Tomorrow morning I go away for five days of sweltering fun in Northeast PA. Mom-in-law’s turning 60 and we’re going to be there to cheer her on. The chadwicks know only too well…
Lifting through the turbulence
the zephyrs churn me unimpeded
but something in the spirit shifts
and hearts and minds find common cadence
All of them took all of me
…
* Want to hear something funny?
* Not particularly.
* What’s the matter, uptighty whitey?
* Nothing. I’d just rather not hear your little joke right now.…
Last entry (I think) about the party in PA: Mom-in-law was showing off a pretty potted plant with little purple flowers that her co-workers had given her for her 60th birthday. I wanted to know…
I wish we had umlauts in english. They’re so much fun to use, and the word “umlaut” is fun to say. In fact, since we don’t have to deal with them in our language,…
* Don’t throw that away!
* You know what it is?
* Doesn’t matter. We’re saving it.
* It’s a sealed featureless bag of an unknown dry granulated product. …
I had a pirated cable box but I had to get rid of it. I couldn’t stand how everybody on every show had a tricorn hat and that stupid eyepatch.
On my way to Riverside and LA this weekend to see my parents. It’ll be a whirlwind trip of about 900 miles, and the air conditioner compressor on the soob is busted so the AC’s not…
I’ll be at the IOLTA conference for the ABA meeting most of today and tomorrow, so my on-line presence may be a bit whifty. Whatever. I get a buffet lunch and dinner at Thirstybear…
He’s so wrapped up with getting into his character that he actually started shooting smack in order to understand the part better, and wound up addicted to a replacement drug all through the filming…
She thought she was in trouble when she found out her first required course was “medieval french literature.” Then she realized that it was just a prerequisite for “fully evil french…
So her sister’s best friend is in this sorority, see, and so they got to go to these bitchin’ parties alla time, and then once they’re like at this party and this guy starts hitting…
* G’Mornin’ and welcome back to ScoreLine, we’ve got Henri Duchamps, the left end from Marsailles who’s taken the league by storm. G’Mornin’ Henri and I hope…
Given: Monkey see, monkey do.
Is it therefore true that: See monkey, do monkey?
This is the kind of crap that keeps me awake at night…
I shouldn’t be taking pleasure in the misfortune of others but I sure do get a kick out of reading about a lawsuit called “Duran v. Duran.” Litigation has never been sexier! …
GYPSY
Everybody has a little bad luck.
FLANGE
But nobody has only bad luck --
GYPSY joins in on the end of the sentence:
FLANGE & GYPSY
-- except…
Just want to point out the amazing little Obfuscations button to the left, that will take you to Pea’s page about the game on friday. My stories…
Howdy, Campers! Welcome to Camp Obfuscatotum, where youngsters learn the skills of professionals and politicans. I am pleased to present herewith two true stories. (Plus one other…
Patricia mentioned to me a month or so ago that she and Bobby had been thinking it would be fun to see how well we knew each other by sharing our stories and fibs, and seeing if we could tell when the…
Signage is one of my favorite -ages. From “Yield” to “Peligro - Biocontanamica,” signs tell us so many wonderful and exciting things. And I am fortunate to live in…
Having spent so much time writing up answers to five simple questions (see below) from Jules over the past few days, I find myself with a new question on my hands: Who the hell cares? I can’t…
These little snippets have been surprisingly popular. Admittedly, they’re only popular with a very small number of people, but I’m best with the very small numbers so I’ll just…