Category: daily drivel
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Alas, Robin Williams
So long, Robin, and thanks for all the laughs. Read.
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the wanderer
My family lived in Green Bay until about 1967 in a little two-bedroom rental at 819 South Roosevelt Street. (Happily, the house is still there.) How I still recall that useless piece of trivia is one of those mysteries of memory that no one will ever explain to me so that it makes sense. Although… Read.
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toboggan
For a couple years, my family lived in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It snows there fourteen months out of the year, so everybody knew how to catch fish by cutting a hole in the ice, and every family owned at least one toboggan. I just love that word. I could say it… Read.
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chlorodyne
Dr. J. Collis Browne’s Chlorodyne was some pretty awesome stuff: “remedy for influenza, colds, coughs, catarrh, asthma, bronchitis … neuralgia, gout, toothache, rheumatism … diarrhoea, stomach chills and other bowel complaints.” A little dab behind each ear and you’re ready for the opera, too! From a 1937 travel guide to North Wales, which came into… Read.
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Rosetta
After a corkscrew-crazy ten-year trip circling the solar system over and over to catch up with comet 67P C-G, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally entered orbit and sent back some fantastic photographs of the comet before sending a lander to its surface and, ultimately, staying with the comet as it makes its closest approach to… Read.
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mushrooms
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double time
This morning’s dream was something about cleaning up vomit and some kind of tarry glue from the floor in the front entrance. Coincidentally, I had gotten up just an hour or so before to clean up some cat puke, so it was almost as if I got to do it twice. Lucky me. That was… Read.
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the nerve!
How many times have you been shit on by a bird? At least once, right? I’ve been dive-crapped twice that I can remember: Once by a crow — and just for future reference, being crapped on by a crow was like being hit with both barrels of a shotgun loaded with rock salt — and… Read.
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kilroy
Where are you now, Sue and Shelley? Read.
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hello darkness my old friend
Sadly, the longest days of summer are past. Although I can still walk in the evenings in full daylight until eight o’clock-ish, it’s dark when I wake up in the mornings at five. That wasn’t the case a week ago when the pre-dawn glow of the sky was bright enough to wake me up. Now… Read.
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