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Mark and Shirley began the process of moving in last month. We endured at least a month of hearing about Mark, but never seeing or having proof of his existence. He didn’t even have a name. He was the lawyer. As it turns out, he fit instantly into the tribe. We could have been screwed [...]

Filed under: General Observations on July 11th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A lot of people have been asking me this week why the Queen of My Universe and I are fasting for a week. So here, in no specific order are some of the questions along with unscientifically and likely erroneous answers. 1. WTF? Fasting is a great way to clean out your system both mentally [...]

Filed under: Food, General Observations on July 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I have a checkered history with video games. I’m not like most other people my age when it comes to video games. I think it’s because of a complicated variety of forces that guided my adolescent behavior. The result is that Protestant thrift and Catholic guilt kept me away from video arcades. The Strong Museum [...]

Filed under: Yesterdaze on July 6th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

There’s an old Cheech and Chong skit… Sister Mary Elephant I think, in which the good sister has a student read his essay about what he did over his summer vacation. It begins: “On the first day of my summer vacation, I woke up.” Yeah, me too. A couple hours later than usual. I was [...]

Filed under: General Observations on June 29th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

So the first thing I hear on NPR news this morning is about Governor Sanford. After so famously going all John C. Calhoun on President Obama by refusing stimulus money, it turns out the Governor was visiting his Argentinian mistress. I’d like to really jump all over Sanford about this, but there’s something bizarrely romantic [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics, Yesterdaze on June 25th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

Now that Facebook has hooked me up with a lot of my high school friends I’m dusting off a lot of synapses. It’s always good to reconnect synapses, especially when they’re musical memories. Each time I see old friends, I hear the music they planted in my brain forever. Thanks Everyone! I’m just going to [...]

Filed under: Music, Yesterdaze on June 23rd, 2009 | Add Comment! »

Alex waved to me frantically while I started mowing the lawn. I’d already had some qualms about mowing the lawn to begin with. It was one of those rare times when I’m really into mowing, so I wasn’t trying to get my lazy ass out of any work. Earlier a lot of bees buzzed around [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, General Observations on June 22nd, 2009 | Add Comment! »

This is from an e-mail that’s been circulating…. Ben and Jerry’s created “Yes Pecan!” ice cream flavor for Obama. Then asked people to fill in the blank to the following: For George W. they created “_________”. Here are some favorites: – Grape Depression – Abu Grape – Cluster Fudge – Nut’n Accomplished – Iraqi Road [...]

Filed under: Politics on February 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The women in my life have a big influence on what I listen to when they’re around. I have extreme tastes in music, and don’t object when the Queen of my Universe or the Cat of my Universe object to a song or two. The disadvantage that Dolly (the Cat of my Universe) has, is [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Music on February 3rd, 2009 | Add Comment! »

I’ve only watched one football game this season. DOUG doesn’t get cable anymore, and LIZ and Brian hate the Patriots, so I just didn’t watch. I can’t even remember who the Patiots beat that week. I still love football, but I found plenty of other things to do this fall and winter besides sit on [...]

Filed under: General Observations on February 2nd, 2009 | Add Comment! »