“Everything has a name, Helen”…that’s what learned in the movie, “The Miracle Worker” (I’m talking about the good version of the movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke–not that suck ass Lifetime/We cable shit starring a grown-up Patty Duke in the role of Annie Sullivan, with Melissa Gilbert and her frighteningly large teeth, performing a [...]
Wanna know when you’re gonna die?
Here, for the first time in your life, allow your honest-to-God “morbid curiosity” really get the best of you.
Or in this case, the worst of you.
If you’re just dying to find out your ultimate date of departure, see this for that.
As for me and my bucket kicking date and [...]
I’ve discovered a wonderful little blog called, “Praying To Darwin”.
Or rather, it’s author found my blog first, left a comment and I obliged by checking out her blog. I’m glad I did.
Ginny is the proprietrixt of this e-journal. She is smart and funny and her blog reflects this. [...]
Sure, you’re curious about doo-doo, doodie, ca-ca, mierdo, poop, crap, poo-poo and of course, as the text above indicates–good old fashioned shit. We’ve had separation anxiety as a result of this stuff ever since were old enough to cogitate our own process of elimination.
So, here’s your chance to learn everything you’ve ever [...]
“Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant.”
–Sun Tzu
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Ol’ Sunny makes a lot of sense. But that’s just me.
As I progress in age, I rather like the idea of a strong defense. There’s some [...]
It was Sunday night and I was sick. Very sick.
My temperature was hovering at 103 degrees and I was slipping in out and of lucidity. My body was enduring these insane temperature extremes. I was burning up one minute, shivering the next.
Throughout most of the evening, I was hot and sweating [...]
Caruso, I am told, loved the sound of his own voice.
Unfortunately, that’s the case with so many bloggers these days. They love the view from their own keyboards.
Sad too. I’m sure they have much to say, it’s just obscured by their own “pontificatory” arrogance. You need a machete [...]
It was June, 1967 and I was eight years old.
Earlier that year, my parents decided to break free of the shackles of abject middle classdom and create nothing short of a castle for themselves and their children.
So, on a hill in the little traveled part of the small South Central Texas berg we called [...]
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OK kids…let’s see what we learned this week: we learned how to go #2 at work with as much ease as possible and no, it had NOTHING to do with eating more fiber.
We learned about one of the new postage stamp designs and franking.
We learned what women say in certain situations and what these [...]
