Two Penny Opera

This foggy mooorrrning I hit the Staaaaarrbucks A Grande coooffee I gave them twooooo bucks They gave me SIX CENTS CHANGE And I went down the hall And I went down the hall And I went down the hall To the McDoooonald’s To break my faaaast late An Egg McMuuuuffin It came to Two Oh […]

Best Headline Ever

I used to write headlines for a small(ish) daily newspaper, so I keep an eye out for the really good ones. ABC news gets the win with this one: The Liar, the Switch and the Wardrobe Police Find Secret Passage Through a Wardrobe to Darwin’s Hideout Oh. My. God. I wish I’d had a chance […]

I’ve been getting yelled at for not keeping this current…

… so, just to keep everyone up to the minute with my life: I gotta pee.

clearly the son of the biguglymandoll

So there I was, taking number one son to his swimming class. This class is run by the county and relies on volunteers to help the kids with everything from proper swimming stroke mechanics to the more basic “don’t drown in this, it’s wet” kind of instruction. As we approach, the guy in charge waves […]

The Big Squeeze

Well, this is it. The end of an era. Even in this Internet age of ADD, of instant idiom and constant communication, the passing of an American Icon is worthy of pause, of notice, of reflection upon who we are as a generation, of where we’ve been, and at the last, where we’re going. I […]