Category: daily drivel
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air supply
“I’ve got a stupid Abba song stuck in my head,” I redundantly said to My Darling B the other morning. “The song stuck in my head is worse,” she answered. “I doubt that.” She began to sing: “I’m all out of love, I’m so lost without you, blah blah blah blah …” “Okay, yeah. That… Read.
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it’s been swell
The use of George Orwell’s name to describe changes in our country got quite a workout today: This morning, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee tweeted, “Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake.” Then this afternoon we were all… Read.
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pull chain
We’ve been living in our little red house for almost fifteen years now, yet somehow My Darling B still can’t remember which pull chain turns on the overhead fan, cooling the muggy bedroom on a warm summer night, and which chain turns on the light, abruptly waking her dozing O-Man, who went to bed before… Read.
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summer wardrobe
Last Tuesday night, I bought a pair of pants that were not khaki, so if you felt the earth tremble at about six pm central time, that’s why. I have been a khaki-pants-wearing guy for about fifteen years. If I wasn’t wearing dress pants, I wore khakis. Haven’t owned a pair of jeans for so… Read.
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hedge trimmer
I bought my first hedge trimmer from a second-hand shop last weekend. The lilac bush out front was getting out of control and I was looking for a quick and easy way to get it back under control. Ideally, I would have preferred using explosives or, at the very least, FIRE, but ever since I… Read.
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laser peel
We heard an advertisement on the radio this morning from a local “health clinic” for a procedure they called a “laser peel,” which I had to google as soon as I got home to see if it’s a real thing. It is. Real people really pay real money to have a “health clinician” point a… Read.
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extremes
A song was playing on the radio as we drove into town this morning, with a refrain that went like this: I would climb every mountain I would swim every ocean Just to be with you Dude. Every mountain? Every ocean? I don’t know how to break this to you, but you’re going to be… Read.
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pain
Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, an understanding, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something. — James Jones, From Here To Eternity Read.
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advice
Few people in the history of written advice have actually been qualified to give it. There’s no Ph.D. program or certification course or license for the role. Which means that nobody is ineligible to give advice, either. … Take Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Those columns were written by a pair of twins whose parents… Read.
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The Shovel Man
“The Shovel Man” is probably my favorite Sandburg poem. He wrote lots of others that come close, but the last four lines of this score a bull’s eye right in the center of my heart. On the street Slung on his shoulder is a handle half way across, Tied in a big knot on the… Read.
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