The internet has been abuzz for almost a week now about an approaching winter storm. The talk has been so frenzied it has achieved an almost sexual quality. I guess when the weather puts the beat-down on everyone, you can feel like you’re part of the big play. Anyway, it was nice enough driving to…
Continue reading →I am verging on hiding the news feeds of all my Facebook friends who continue to put hashtags (the pound sign) in their posts. I could rant about it, or I could just copy and paste this excellent, and completely correct, analysis from Maddox: And just an aside: hashtags are pointless, hashtag jokes are stupid…
Continue reading →Abby is home from her week in Baltimore, helping her daughter Chele and son-in-law Tom with their new baby, Paul Thomas Reeves. Abby is exhausted, which I kind of expected she would be. Chele and Tom are exhausted as well, but baby Paul is doing fine. I posted one other image of Paul on Abby’s…
Continue reading →“We shall come all over.” -Creedo of Cool Left-Wing Juggling Nihilist for Social Revolution, my 1986-88 girlfriend’s college club. “I’d rather pop a boner in a nursing home.” Hey, Hitler! Nobody likes you! My approval rating skyrocketed after I said some nice things about an event elsewhere in the world. “Talking to yourself is only…
Continue reading →Q: How many vegetarians does it take to shingle a roof? A: 16 if you slice them thin enough. “I swear to cow!” -Facebook friend, quoting The Big Bang Theory X dreamed that if he didn’t photograph the bedroom in narrow, alternating lines, he would get diabetes. Is a potato that grows in Carlsbad Caverns…
Continue reading →X is now taking himself too seriously for the 14000th straight day! Regis Philbin <—> Philbis Region “No one is online.” -Facebook X is changing what “LOL” means. From now on, it’s “Living Our Lives.” Please adjust your usage. X is also changing what “ROFL” means. From now on, it refers to “Really Ordinary Freaking…
Continue reading →As my wife languishes in the piles of snow in Baltimore while she visits her daughter and son-in-law who had a new baby last week, I am taking advantage of the sunshine and 72º temps to catch up on yard work. Two days ago I fired up the chain saw to carve more out of…
Continue reading →In thinking about the destination of the Universe and the growing body of evidence that shows we are ever trudging toward The Big Freeze, it becomes inescapable that everything, every single thing that you and I are and know, everything that we do, everything that we see, every monument we erect and poem we compose,…
Continue reading →1. Myth: religion is not a real problem. Fact: religion is a real and serious condition. It is no different than diabetes or heart disease in its ability to impact someone’s life. It can have both emotional and physical symptoms and make life very difficult for those who have it. The medical community has acknowledged…
Continue reading →“Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister.” -Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, January 2011
Continue reading →Alternate title: Dogs Preserve Dreams. I got up at 4:30 this morning to feed the dogs. I got back in bed and laid awake for 15 minutes memorizing the following dream: We were in my Grandmother Barron’s back bedroom, the one where Nicole and I used to stay when we were kids, when we noticed…
Continue reading →Last night Abby dreamed she was holding her new grandson Paul. In the dream, he was about two months old and had lots of super dark black hair. A few minutes ago we received a phone message from our son in law Tom showing Chele with her new baby Paul, who, as you can see,…
Continue reading →We have all seen and heard the use of insults as arguments. Instead of actually debating an issue, one of the debaters will retreat to name calling, badgering, and belittling, and often claiming your point of view is just ridiculous without attempting to say why. We hear it a lot on talk radio. The technique…
Continue reading →Abby’s daughter Chele is expecting her first baby, a boy she and her husband Tom are planning to name Paul, any day. Abby is planning to travel to Baltimore for this event as soon as it actually happens. Chele reports that she is ready to have this baby. Meanwhile, it’s been colder this week in…
Continue reading →Last Thursday I drove to Tulsa to hook up with Robert “R. E.” Stinson to have lunch. We met at my favorite Tulsa restaurant, and one where many benchmarks of relationships with my Tulsa peeps have been set. Everybody had a great time, and Robert and I chased down some of his kin on the…
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