Month: February 2011
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Who’s That Guy?
The other day I got an e-mail from a customer who informed me that a Mister Acostki told her supervisor such-and-such a thing, and I got all the way to the end of the paragraph before I realized that “Mister Acostki” was me! That’s the first new and amusing spelling of my name I’ve seen… Read.
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Softly
I was down on my knees this morning with my trusty toothbrush and a can of Ajax cleanser, uprooting all the fuzzy little plants and slaying the romping animals that grow in the grouting between the tiles in our bathroom, and I found myself asking this question: Why do they even make hard toothbrushes? See,… Read.
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March on the capitol
There were about a million people on cap square this afternoon, even while the snow and the temperature were both falling. If it wasn’t literally a million, it looked like a million. I’ve never seen a million people in one place, so I’m not sure what that looks like, but what I saw was that… Read.
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Apollo 18
The announcement that there’d soon be a movie released about Apollo 18 caught my eye because it had the word “Apollo” in it and because there was no 18th mission to the moon. This monster movie is supposed to explain why that is, which got me all jazzed up because, you know, rockets and astronauts… Read.
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Al dente
Somehow I left the house this morning and forgot to brush my teeth. Man, that’s the worst, isn’t it? No, it wasn’t. After I drank the rest of my coffee and ate beans and weenies for lunch, THEN it was the worst. So on my lunch break I walked up to the Willy Street Co-op… Read.
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Bonk!
And again: Kitty! Because I wanted to make it up to you for all the political crap coming out of Wisconsin lately. We can do the interwebs the way it’s supposed to be done. Read.
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Detect this!
First of all: Kitty! And now for something completely different: While the Assembly galleries will be open to the public on Tuesday, spectators will have to step through a metal detector. It’s the first time metal detectors have been used during the protests. (Associated Press, via the Herald Times-Reporter) I’ve lived in Madison just a… Read.
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Repair this bill
Okay, one more post about the political shenanigans in Wisconsin and then I’ll go back to drivel about choo-choo trains and kittens, promise. One of the many changes to the pay of state workers that will come out of the governor’s so-called budget repair bill is that they won’t be able to ask for an… Read.
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Union
Wowzers, was it cold on cap square this afternoon! Even so, we wanted to see how many union members would show up for a pro-union rally on the steps of the capitol, and at first it looked like there wouldn’t be more than a couple hundred. When we showed up, there was a smattering of… Read.
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union
When the protests to the governor’s so-called budget repair bill began, my son asked me if I didn’t think it was only fair and right that the state workers share some of the sacrifice. His question frankly surprised the hell out of me because I really thought that, if he saw that this question tipped… Read.
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