Category: daily drivel
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denver
I used to be so into John Denver. I had all his albums. I knew all the songs. Not just “Country Roads” and “Annie’s Song.” I knew all the words to “Toledo, Ohio,” and I would sing it on long road trips with my friends. I had those kinds of friends. And it’s a long… Read.
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ssdd
Not sure there was anything going on today worth talking about. Work was the same as always. Biked to work, so that was good. Biked home, too. That was a little buggy. And the Banzo cart was parked in the lot at the East Side Club, so we brought home a couple orders of falafels… Read.
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go away
A guy in a reflective vest carrying a clipboard walked up to my front door just now, rang the bell and stood there waiting. Apparently he didn’t see me lounging on the sofa, just inside the door. “Hello?” I called to him. He jumped back, startled. “Oh, hello!” he answered, and then waited for me… Read.
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direction
Hello, and welcome to “Rhetorical Phrases That Have Got to DIE!” Today’s Phrase: “The American People don’t approve of the direction in which the country is heading.” Hey, American People, guess what? The country is a vast blacktop of rock oozing up from a gash in the earth near Iceland, and it’s unstoppably headed toward… Read.
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gorgeous
What a gorgeous day! I think I’ll get the bike out of the garage and take a long, slow ride through the early morning coolness as the sun slowly rises until I get to an office building that’s hermetically sealed off from fresh air and sunshine and I’ll sit in a little room for nine… Read.
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cocktail
Toward the end of this month I’m going to a clinic downtown to have this certain medical procedure that those of us over-fifties get to have because the doctor keeps bugging us about it every single goddamned time we go in for a hangnail or a bloody nose or whatever. “Have you had your colonoscopy… Read.
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uncanny
The spam robots have found my weakness. Every day, they post gibberish comments to my blog posts (spam robots are my most loyal readers) that are strings of random words, or sometimes they look like phrases and sentences pulled from internet search results. And then, yesterday, I got six or seven comments to different posts,… Read.
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payout
Heard this on the radio this morning: “If you’ve ever wanted to give money to a politician, but you couldn’t get to your bank or your checkbook, you may soon be able to make a donation over the phone.” Well, thank goodness we will soon have another way to fork over our money to politicians!… Read.
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requiem
We have been given eyes to see what the light-year worlds cannot see of themselves, Bradbury wrote. We have been given hands to touch the miraculous. We’ve been given hearts to know the incredible. Can we shrink back to bed in our funeral clothes? Andy Chaikin, who has made a life out of writing about… Read.
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blammo
On my way to work yesterday, I stopped by our favorite bakery to see what kind of traffic accident would make the operators close it down for a day, as they mentioned in a Facebook post that they were experiencing some technical difficulties. It turns out a drunk driver crashed a car into it. Doesn’t… Read.
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