Category: daily drivel
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may the pun be with you
Today is called Star Wars Day because it’s May the Fourth, as in, “May the Fourth Be With You.” It’s a pun that lots of people say out loud all day long and somehow they don’t get punched in the face for it. I still don’t understand how that works. Few people can get away… Read.
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history rhymes
An NPR correspondent quoting Mark Twain said yesterday, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” I’d never heard that quote before and, looking into it now, it turns out Twain never said it. The first time the phrase was attributed to him was in 1970, the same year that John Robert Columbo’s poem “A… Read.
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in the garten
Dinner last night was a giant pretzel and a glass of beer at the Biergarten in Olbrich Park. It probably wasn’t the healthiest dinner I’ve ever eaten, but it was one of the most enjoyable. I shared the pretzel with My Darling B. They weren’t kidding when they used the word “giant.” I felt stuffed… Read.
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third floor
Our office building has a multilevel parking garage. We park in our assigned spot on level six and usually take the elevator down to the ground floor. This morning B must have relied on muscle memory to press the button to go to the third floor; she works on the third floor of the office… Read.
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cable snap
The garage door failed catastrophically after I started the garage door opener as My Darling B and I stepped into the garage to go to brunch this morning. I thought the door sounded a lot like it was being torn apart by the garage door opener, but no matter how long I gaped at it,… Read.
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dystopia
Last night we watched the first two episodes of season two of The Handmaid’s Tale, the Hulu television series based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It’s a deeply troubling story about an ultraconservative revolution that overthrows the US government and, among their other bad attributes, literally enslaves fertile women, forcing them to bear children… Read.
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not warm enough
I had hoped the weather yesterday would be warm enough for me to break the kayak out of its winter cocoon and take it for a paddle around the bay while B was at yoga last night, but alas, it was a bit too chilly for that. Temps just barely crept up into what is… Read.
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dinner on the patio
I think summer came to Wisconsin yesterday, and maybe if we’re very lucky it will stay for a while. It may even stay all weekend. Yesterday was the first day I walked around outside in shirt sleeves. Other people were doing it when temps hit the 40s and 50s, and I may have run from… Read.
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Hari
Tim went with B and I to the Comedy Club on State Street last night to see Hari Kondabolu, always a good time. Hari’s opener was the hilarious Carmen Lagala from New York. I’ve never seen her act before but enjoyed it immensely. The host was Greg Bach from Milwaukee, who was entertaining and occasionally… Read.
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easy come, easy go
Michael Cohen, the man Trump calls his personal lawyer and who everybody else calls his ”fixer,” was arraigned in federal court yesterday where he named TV talking head Sean Hannity as one of his clients. The only other client Cohen has had is Elliot Broidy, a big donor to the Republican National Committee, who secured… Read.
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