Category: random idiocy
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dear me
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.
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damn lies
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.
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thorn birds 6-25-20
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.
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thorn birds 6-24-20
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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full-size
Woke up from a dream this morning in which I was taking turns driving a truck. I was supposed to be off-duty, catching some sack time in the back, but the guy driving the truck needed help navigating, so I grabbed a cup of coffee and joined him in the cab with a map. The… Read.
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thorn birds 6-22-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds” on the end table: In the next scene, a copy of “The Bourne Identity” appears on top: Next, “The Thorn Birds” and “The Bourne Identity” seem to meld into a single copy of “The Thourne Identity.” And finally, “The… Read.
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AITA
There’s a section of the social media web site REDDIT called “Am I The Asshole?” in which Redditors will spell out a sticky problem they’re experiencing and ask everyone to either validate their righteousness or dump on their pettiness. Because everything on the internet is a TLA (Three-Letter Abbreviation), you can answer YTA (You’re The… Read.
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tinfoil hat
Trump graduated from grumpy old codger and joined the tinfoil hat brigade today when he tweeted: “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was… Read.
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rigamarole
I typed the word “rigamarole” into an email the other day and got one of those red squiggly lines underneath telling me it was misspelled. That’s interesting, I thought, because I’m pretty sure that’s a bullshit made-up word. [Turns out it’s not. It’s a word with a long history. – ed] [There is no editor.]… Read.
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glitch
Author Chuck Wendig asked: “Tell us about something unexplainable that happened to you – your own “glitch in the Matrix” –?” I was about to set the needle on an LP record track (kids, ask your grandparents) when, just before the needle touched down, the right-hand speaker very clearly said, “Cheeseburger.” I was so surprised… Read.
