Category: daily drivel
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dear me
Dear 15-year-old me: I’m 59-year-old you and this is the sort of thing we do to pass the time while self-isolating during the pandemic. Yeah. The pandemic. I don’t want to jump straight into that, if you don’t mind. I mean, I’m not going to totally blow it off; I’ll get to it eventually. Just… Read.
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staycation
I’ve got a little fold-up cart I use to wheel my kayak from our yard to the lake and back. You can pay anywhere from fifty bucks to hundred dollars and more for one of these little carts; I paid fifty bucks because I’m a cheapskate. The cart served me well for many years until… Read.
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a nice call
Mom called me last night while we were having dinner. “Call you back in about ten minutes,” I promised her, then for the next ten minutes tried and failed not to think about why she might be calling me. Mom doesn’t call me. I call her. It’s one of those unspoken agreements. When she does… Read.
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that moment when
There’s an old friend I reconnected with on Facebook a year or two ago. One of the things I liked a lot about Facebook when I signed up for an account was reconnecting with people I knew way back when. Another one of the things about Facebook, a thing I’m not a big fan of,… Read.
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damn lies
I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but “Trump cannot lie his way out of a pandemic. And the pandemic keeps reminding him of that” is not a hot take I can gin up a lot of enthusiasm for. Call him a two-bit grifter all you want, but he did in fact bullshit his way… Read.
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thorn birds 6-25-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds:” A few minutes later, two more books have been added to the stack: “The Thorn Birds 3: Things Be Getting Tornier!” “The Thorn Birds 2: More Thorns” The stack gets a little higher in the next scene with an… Read.
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who’s a good boy
Sparky went to the vet yesterday. Did. Not. Like. It. Or at least I thought he didn’t, because he howled all the way there. He was fine when I put him in the cat carrier, but as soon as I put the carrier in the car he started to howl like he’d been stuck, and… Read.
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thorn birds 6-24-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a stack of books on the end table: A Clockwork Orange The Sword in the Stone 1984 The Picture of Dorian Gray The Thorn Birds A few minutes later, “A Clockwork Orange” has been transformed into “A Clockwork Thornge.” After that, “The Sword in the Stone”… Read.
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full-size
Woke up from a dream this morning in which I was taking turns driving a truck. I was supposed to be off-duty, catching some sack time in the back, but the guy driving the truck needed help navigating, so I grabbed a cup of coffee and joined him in the cab with a map. The… Read.
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thorn birds 6-22-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds” on the end table: In the next scene, a copy of “The Bourne Identity” appears on top: Next, “The Thorn Birds” and “The Bourne Identity” seem to meld into a single copy of “The Thourne Identity.” And finally, “The… Read.
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