Category: daily drivel
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whether or not
I can no longer tell the difference between parody news, such as The Onion, and real news (or what has become known as “fake news,”) such as The New York Times or NBC. The Daily Shit reported yesterday that Trump announced “he is much better at sexual assault than Harvey Weinstein & Bill Cosby and… Read.
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discovering the sock basket
[This was originally posted on September 15, 2008, and is reposted here mainly for my own amusement.] Between early last week and the weekend, somewhere in there, Tim discovered the laundry basket that holds all the socks. We have three or four large, rectangular laundry baskets and one, odd-man-out square laundry basket, and because I’m… Read.
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errands
I had a million things to do today, but I crossed 999,997 of them off my list because all I felt like three’s a good number and that’s all I felt like doing. And it’s the weekend. Not that I needed an excuse, but it feels like I should type one anyway. My #1 goal… Read.
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A night to remember
[The management begs me to advise you that this drivel was originally part of a longer post I wrote on October 6, 2007, after I had the overwhelming pleasure of hearing Susanne Vega performing live at the Barrymore Theater.] Richard Julian was the opening act for the Suzanne Vega concert. I’ve never heard of him,… Read.
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stuff myself
Today the local library was selling used books to raise money, and right across the street a local children’s theatrical group was raising money by selling pies, so guess what I’ve been doing today? If you guessed a) stuffing myself with pie, and b) buying armloads of books, YOU’RE RIGHT! I thought pecan pie was… Read.
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plagiarizingT
Shortly after Trump won the election, somebody who calls himself “Presidential Trump” on Twitter began retweeting Trump’s tweets and rephrasing them in a way you would hope a more grown-up version of Trump would talk. For example: In a surreal twist this morning, Trump himself plagiarized “Presidential Trump” like so: Every time I think he… Read.
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a memory hole
[The management wishes to inform you that this drivel was originally posted on September 28, 2008. We beg your indulgence to repost it mostly so B can rub my face in it.] We went to the Black Horse auction north of DeForest and planned to spend pretty much all day there. Haven’t done that for… Read.
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sleepy time
We used to let our cats sleep with us, but after we brought Scooter home from the Dane County Humane Society two Christmases ago, we had to lock them out because Scooter wanted to sleep on our heads. I don’t like a cat sleeping on my pillow. Anywhere else but my pillow is okay, but… Read.
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privilege
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson visited New Berlin West high school last week, where one of the students asked him, “Senator Johnson, I understand there’s a big movement right now to try to repeal and replaced the Affordable Care Act. Do you personally consider health care as more of a privilege or a right?” Johnson answered,… Read.
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a tempest in a teapot
I honestly think Trump was just talking out his ass when he made the “calm before the storm” remark. Trump’s a guy who’s been the boss of his own business for so long, and the star of a reality show about being the boss on top of that, that he thinks everything that comes out… Read.
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