Category: daily drivel
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illiterate
I woke up at about four o’clock this morning after waking from a dream in which My Darling B came straight to my desk at work from a meeting where she got a copy of a report that I wrote. She handed her copy to me. Even though I wrote it, I didn’t recognize it,… Read.
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Neither Bob nor Sally
Now this is a meme I can get behind: Read.
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Trump as Hitler
Overwrought comparisons [of Donald Trump’s administration] to the Nazis are both historically illiterate and an extreme strategic misstep. The president’s critics have crossed a rhetorical line from which there can be no turning back. – The Hill, 6/24/2018 Couldn’t agree with you more, The Hill. Which is why, each week, I compare Trump to a… Read.
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crotchhurt
Ouch. My crotch hurts. I went for a bike ride this morning that, according to the Google, which tracked my every move thanks to the cell phone in the pouch under my bike seat, was 19.3 miles from start to finish. I hadn’t gone much more than 2.75 miles before my crotch hurt. Google didn’t… Read.
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non-emergency
I gave Number One Son Sean a call one night earlier this week. He’d promised he would call me on Father’s Day but never did, nor did he call the weekend after that, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. He picked up on the second ring. “Dad?” His voice had a… Read.
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an apartheid story
Andries du Toit is a professor at the University of West Cape in South Africa. He posted this series of chilling tweets on 6/27/18: Thread. Some thoughts from a white South African, directed at friends in the USA. I have been thinking about the Kennedy resignation, and what it looks like from here. I know… Read.
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cash and prizes
Add “cash and prizes” to the long list of euphemisms for male genitalia, thanks to Dwayne Johnson, who used the phrase on The Graham Norton show: Graham Norton: “Is it true that in Moana, your character was based on him?” [photo of a Pacific islander in traditional dress] Dwayne Johnson: Sure. Correct. So, a lot… Read.
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father’s day
Tim brought me a bottle of Islay scotch for father’s day last weekend. He was a little embarrassed when he realized that Father’s Day was the weekend before last, but he brought me a bottle of scotch, so who am I to quibble? Read.
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Carver
There was an old Carver motor boat parked in the lot out front of a local auto supply store two weeks ago. Even though it was half-covered with a tarp, I recognized the make of the boat as we sped past at thirty miles per hour because Carver’s logo is unmistakably stylized; the oversized V… Read.
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a bad day
Did you have a bad day? Do you think so? Oh, no. No no no. Your worst day is barely a patch on the worst day the earth ever had. “The meteorite itself was so massive that it didn’t notice any atmosphere whatsoever,” said Rebolledo. “It was traveling 20 to 40 kilometers per second, 10… Read.
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