Category: General
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Blizzard
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Daniel and I went to the grocery store in the late morning and had lunch at Godfather’s Pizza. When we left, it had started to sleet. By 17:00 light snow was falling. Had to shovel the walk several times for the trick or treaters. …
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TV
Well after the Cardinals pulled out a victory in extra innings last night against the Texas Rangers we’ll have a game seven in the World Series today; that means that the new series, Grimm on NBC, that I’ve been waiting for will have to go onto the DVR for viewing at a later time. A…
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Headlines are Punchlines and Crazy is Crazy
As a follow on to this piece from Lewis Black’s The Carnege Hall Performance where he talks about people who had named their kids, “Shithead”, “Asshole”, and “Abcde”; our contractor Eric F-J claims that his sister arrested a kid named “Orangejello” and he had a brother named “Lemonjello”.What’s up with this?
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Will you be in tomorrow?
Most people would say, “If I don’t get hit by a bus, I’ll be there.”In fact it is such a cliche in the way of meeting your demise that the father in the undertaker family in the HBO show, Six Feet Under actually gets it that way in the pilot episode; but, Al Louismet, Agency…
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Columbus Day
Maybe it’s a good thing that nobody seems to care about the bogus “Columbus Day” holiday since most people have realized that it probably should be renamed, “Glorification of decimating indigenous populations of America day.”