Posts by hamblog
the yearly dumb-down
As I have mentioned before in this here blog, I like to listen to IQ-lowering radio stations during the summertime. Last year, it was the nutty R&B station; previous years, it’s been heavy metal or standard-issue American Rawk. Now that it’s unofficially summer, I have cranked up “The Rewind”, a local station bringing me the…
Read Morepurple passion
The jacaranda trees are in bloom here in Southern California. They’re quite pretty — grand and purple-bloomed — but are generally despised. The flowers, apparently, are messy — sticky and stainy when they plop to the ground. I suggest you bring up the jacaranda when you visit here. It’s pretty funny to hear the passion…
Read Moremight as well face it
Posting screen shots of silly iPhone autocorrect fails is the “I have no energy to post” meme. Although they can be hilarious (if they are true). Before you click that link, you may want to know there’s some swear wordage on that site. I was texting with a Certain Someone and, thanks to autocorrect, my…
Read Moresort of stupeh
This is Julie, little Miss Nimble Typey Typey, who quickly laid her claim on the jacket I was giving away yesterday. She looks mighty fine! That jacket is pretty perfect on her, no? Now I am free to wallow in my leather jacket buying addiction, knowing that all my eBay wins that are too small…
Read Moreyours if you want it: suede jacket
I am engaged in the very bad habit of bidding for leather jackets on eBay. It’s just too seductive, the decent prices and the promises of glamor, or something. I have to stop. I have to stop. So far I have won and received two that have not worked out. The first was so close,…
Read Moreweepy
A while back I solicited you to tell me what to write about. Here is number three: Bella says: Tell us about the time something was so beautiful you cried, and you still get teary eyed thinking about it now. This one springs to mind. On the Radiolab podcast, Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan,…
Read Morethe book i didn’t read this month
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. I lasted two chapters. It was horrific. I’m not squeamish and have plenty of morbid curiosity but I couldn’t do it. I thought I could gain some insight to help me reconcile the events in Japan, but no. My deep fear of nuclear annihilation (thanks,…
Read Morememorial day
My dad Jim died almost five years ago. He fought in World War II. Among his papers are letters and drawings sent to his parents while he was a soldier. Here, he recounts basic and medic training.
Read Moremake it happen make it happen
I’m not all The Secret-style gaga about manifesting good things for myself through the power of visualization and positive thought. However, I spend a couple minutes every few days trying to levitate, or (if that’s physically impossible) to have my soul-self rise above my body-self in the traditional out-of-body experience. This usually occurs when I’ve…
Read Morestart the car / i know a whoopee spot
I had high hopes for what I was going to see inside this car. Alas, not one sequined fedora nor languid snapping hand nor swiveling shoulder to be found. I speak, of course, about the singular vision of the late great Bob Fosse. Follow me, won’t you, to view some of these classic (but perhaps…
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