Archive for October 2008
the nerves
Thanks for the good messages and thoughts during my unpleasant dunking into the relentlessly deep pool of Blech. One of the issues weighing on me to which others are relating is our country’s creepy economic free fall. Readers from the future, don’t tell us how it turned out! The suspense, however, is killing us. Killing.…
Read Morejust me
I’m suffering (and have been suffering) from a certain amount of the funk, of the blues and the blahs. Too much (and not enough) going on in my life. There are a variety of things weighing me down, not the least of which the certain feeling I’m feeling as I muddle about in these Middle…
Read Morewhat sounds good right now
Taking a bite of a hard salami. The pop through the tough outer coating, the squish of the fatty meat. Tear, bite, rawr rawr! Salty fatty meaty! More Altered Images. I hadn’t heard I Could be Happy in multiple decades, and the second I heard it: wham, I got immediately and delightfully transported back to…
Read MoreNo on 8! All genders have a right to mate!
Other terrible chants I just made up: Hey, hey, ho, ho! That crappy Prop 8 has got to go! Guys like Tom and Larry should totally be allowed to marry! Each other! One, two three! My two mommies are better parents that your mixed-gender parents will ever be! Let’s just stop the bullshit and vote…
Read Moresigns that i am slipping another rung down the ladder of sanity
I can’t stop watching the doggie cam at Camp Bow Wow in Colorado. Sally Cruikshank, the famous animator, mentioned on her blog that her German Shepard is being boarded there (seen above at right). So now I stare at the cute doggies cavorting about, occasionally swirling around the human attendant with such enthusiasm I sort…
Read Moremore hot phone action
I was about 8 or 9 when I first was on the receiving end of a crank call: Me: Hello? Him: Are you in favor of gay liberation? Me: What? Him: Because I’m gay! {click} Not terribly witty, that caller. Then again, at that point, I was a veteran crank call-maker myself, of the very…
Read Moreget no answer at all
I stubbornly cling to my home telephone number (just as bullheadedly as I hang onto my 415 area code cell phone number.) Most of the calls I get to the ol’ landline are weird scam recordings warning me that my car insurance is about to expire, fireman and police organizations looking for donations (why are…
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