Category: daily drivel
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Bristol Renaissance Fair
Giant rats on a stick? “Pass the mustard!” said My Darling B. Would it be a renaissance fair without food on a stick? I can’t see how. That, and a funny hat were all I needed to make this the greatest weekend ever, and although I had to try on a lot of funny hats,… Read.
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unexpected
The cats were out of food. I was out running errands. That’s how I found myself on Willy Street on Sunday morning outside Mad Cat. Nothing unusual about that. As I walked up the sidewalk to the shop, a young woman I didn’t recognize, walking toward me from the corner, was waving at me like… Read.
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hothothot
Well, the temp is already 75 degrees at five o’clock in the morning, so the heat, how hot it is, and sweating like a pig is all anybody will be talking about today … Read.
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woodchoppers
While listening to a recording of “Jumpin’ At The Woodside” by Count Basie, I asked My Darling B, “Does this song make you think of a man with a paper bag on his head?” She looked at me like a puzzled puppy. “Gene, Gene, dancing machine!” I said, thinking that this would explain things. It… Read.
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Bonkity-bonk-bonk
Time for a Bonkers Update. Bonkers is doing pretty darned well for a cat with an indeterminate amount of brain damage caused by an unknown agent. He eats nothing but canned food and he gets almost all the lap time he wants (sometimes he wants it when I’m still doing chores, so no joy then).… Read.
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perfect
A man walks into a bar and orders a martini. And the bartender asks him, “Any preference of vodka?” The man walks out. This is not a joke. It’s what you do if you cross paths with a bartender – a bartender, for shit’s sake! – who thinks a martini is made with vodka. The… Read.
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priceless
We went to see 2 Guns last night because My Darling B wanted to see a flick with lots of action that didn’t require a lot of thought. We certainly got what we were after. And I don’t mean that like it’s a bad thing. In almost all of the right ways, it was a… Read.
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timeless
How do most people find the time to get anything done? I thought I had a pretty productive weekend until I looked back at it and could count just two things I managed to do, and they were almost the same thing, really: I bottled some beer I brewed two weeks ago, and I brewed… Read.
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dead line
Our land line went dead last Friday. I killed it. For years, I argued that we needed the land line in addition to our cell phones because the land line keeps working when cell phones don’t, like during a power outage. Also, you don’t have to charge the battery of a land-line phone. “You’ll thank… Read.
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