This Is Drivel

Category: daily drivel

  • triple-decker

    In my dream, I was driving my triple-decker bus onto a military base and had to stop at the front gate, where the gate guards didn’t so much check it for explosives as much as they pointed and asked a lot of questions about where I got it and how I fixed it up with… Read.

  • indifference

    Indifference to what words actually say; willingness to accept a vapid truism as a useful, even revelatory concept; carelessness about where a supposed quotation comes from – that’s all part of what I like least about the Internet. A “blah blah blah, who cares, information is what I want it to be” attitude – a… Read.

  • snxxx

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    Sat down in the recliner, caught up on the day’s news (Ferguson in flames, university frat houses chock full o’ rapists; I don’t know how you feel about it, but sometimes I think it’d almost be a relief to go back to the days of the cold war and have nuclear Armageddon hanging over our… Read.

  • face dive

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    Sean is flying in tonight to stay with us for Thanksgiving. His plane will be landing some time around eleven o’clock, which means B won’t bring him home from the airport until maybe around midnight, which means I probably won’t see him because I woke up shortly after three o’clock this morning and haven’t gotten… Read.

  • #blacklivesmatter

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    I’m face palming over white people snottily responding to #BlackLivesMatter with ALLLIVESMATTER. No, you see, we were JUST told they don’t.      – Alisha Rai Read.

  • super massive snow storm

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    Just for the record, yesterday we had the first SUPER MASSIVE SNOW STORM OF THE YEAR that everybody talked about as if it was the end of the world, and when we went out to our car at the end of the work day, it turned out there was maybe an inch or two of… Read.

  • seasonal amnesia

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    “Let’s move to Wisconsin,” I said. “You’ll love the seasons,” I said. What a maroon. What a gully bull. Read.

  • a thousand cuts

    I broke a glass while washing dishes and cut my finger. Not a deep cut, but it wouldn’t stop bleeding. Couldn’t finish washing dishes until it stopped. I tried cold water, then direct pressure. I tried tightly bandaging it. It kept bleeding. I just wanted to finish washing the dishes! So I washed them with… Read.

  • vape? not!

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    I don’t have an opinion one way or another about the practice of “vaping.” Huff and puff on whatever gets you off, it’s all the same to me. But “vape” is a dumb word. That, I have a definite opinion about. I won’t point at or ridicule you if you vape, but I will chortle… Read.

  • who needs it?

    When I turned out the lights last night at eleven o’clock, I was dead tired. I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before and I wasn’t able to get a nap yesterday, so I said to myself, If I don’t sleep until at least eight o’clock in the morning, I’m gonna asplode. Woke up at… Read.

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