This Is Drivel

Category: random idiocy

  • absolute and total drivel

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    As I type these words, it’s seven o’clock in the morning and the sun still hasn’t risen. I asked the internet when the sun will rise and it told me 7:14 am. Then I looked out the window into utter and complete darkness and looked back at the internet. Refreshed the page. It still told… Read.

  • clipping

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    I finally had enough of long hair, so I asked My Darling B to mow my head. I had not had a haircut since mid-February so it had grown so long and so thick that it was starting to feel like wearing a horse blanket on my head. The “before” picture doesn’t show how much… Read.

  • akula

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    I used to work with a guy who was, shall we say, a teller of tall tales. Any story he told would start out believable enough, but would quickly morph into such an outrageous and obvious truckload of manure that after hearing only a few of them, I would often roll my eyes or smirk… Read.

  • paper doll

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    I was listening to “Paper Doll” by The Mills Brothers the other day when I thought, “Hmmm, it’s been a while since I ruined a song.” “Paper Doll,” when sung by The Mills Brothers, is one of my favorite songs ever. It might even be one of my favorite songs when sung by other groups,… Read.

  • radical left agenda

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    the radical left agenda take away your gunsdestroy your second amendmentno religionno anythinghurt the bible hurt god he’s against godhe’s against guns he’s against energy, our kind of energy ah I don’t think he’s gonna do too well in ohio Read.

  • pwmctv

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    You want to know what’s been stuck in my head on a loop all morning? Probably not, but I’m going to answer that rhetorical question anyway: person woman man camera TV I went paddling on the lake this morning. I put in early, before all the bleepheads started roaring around in their power boats, so… Read.

  • dear me

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    Dear 15-year-old me: I’m 59-year-old you and this is the sort of thing we do to pass the time while self-isolating during the pandemic. Yeah. The pandemic. I don’t want to jump straight into that, if you don’t mind. I mean, I’m not going to totally blow it off; I’ll get to it eventually. Just… Read.

  • damn lies

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    I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but “Trump cannot lie his way out of a pandemic. And the pandemic keeps reminding him of that” is not a hot take I can gin up a lot of enthusiasm for. Call him a two-bit grifter all you want, but he did in fact bullshit his way… Read.

  • thorn birds 6-25-20

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    Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds:” A few minutes later, two more books have been added to the stack: “The Thorn Birds 3: Things Be Getting Tornier!” “The Thorn Birds 2: More Thorns” The stack gets a little higher in the next scene with an… Read.

  • thorn birds 6-24-20

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    Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a stack of books on the end table: A Clockwork Orange The Sword in the Stone 1984 The Picture of Dorian Gray The Thorn Birds A few minutes later, “A Clockwork Orange” has been transformed into “A Clockwork Thornge.” After that, “The Sword in the Stone”… Read.

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