Killers
Last Tuesday the guy who sits next to me at my temp job backed over his cat. Totally ran over it, so that it made his car lurch. The cat, a beloved pet of nine years, then ran down a storm drain and...
View ArticleIf God Said Boris Had To Turn Gay
Boris O'Dan is a good friend all of the time but he's at his entertaining best on no sleep and too much Little Debbie and cold caffeine:"Now, I'm a straight guy," he said Thursday. "But if God came...
View ArticleUgh
To a certain degree, Wyatt and I are luddites. Me maybe more so. Before I married him, I hadn't lived in the same house with a TV for 10 years. Even now, we don't have cable. And I hate cell phones....
View ArticleGraduation Gall
I went to a recent graduation ceremony that really pissed me off. There was a time in my life when I went to four or five of them every year. While boring, they were all inoffensive. But this one - at...
View ArticleHoliday Roundup
Had a fabulous time in Charleston over Memorial Day weekend. Rode through a lot of flat, green country on the way there. Ate, drank, and lounged by a pool to excess. Walked on a beach in the rain. A...
View ArticleFive-Alarm Tick Warning
If you haven't been camping yet this year, take heed if you have plans to go. You may need to keep some plasma in a cooler just in case the ticks you will encounter bleed you almost dry. For some...
View ArticleAn Exception For The C Word
try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3181151-469"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Normally I'm against the C word, as many women are. But it's the centerpiece of the following...
View ArticleSummer Stuff
We've had enough rain for a change this year, and that must be what's spurred the boom in local four-leaf-clover populations. Before this spring, it'd been years since I'd found one. Now I'm finding...
View ArticleRecent Awkward Guy Events
On Friday the daughter of a good friend of mine died. I was a little shell-shocked by the news, even though she's been sick for a long time and everybody knew it was coming. I wasn't sure what to do -...
View ArticleThird Grade Jail Trip
Wyatt and I went to see Public Enemies on Sunday. It was okay. Has a lot of jailbreaks and so forth. At dinner we were talking about the movie, and he said he'd seen something on TV once about how...
View ArticleSado-Masochistic Violinist
So: To set the scene, I need to explain that I'd just gotten out of graduate school and had a crummy, hateful job that involved talking to demanding people on the phone all day for very little money....
View ArticleOld People
When I was a kid, I remember hearing adults talk about who'd been in the obituaries lately. Especially my grandmother - she'd ask me "You remember so and so?" and I'd shake my head, and she'd get...
View ArticleAlien Planet Needs Bands
If aliens beamed me aboard their ship and said look, we want to clone some musicians so we can bring good music to our home planet, and we need you to recommend some, I'd start with this one:That's...
View ArticleJean Blues
Jeans of this breed are so rare I am almost afraid to wear them because they are so precious. I'll explain why: They neither bare your anal cleft when you stoop (jeans of today), nor make your ass look...
View ArticleJean Blues Update
I recently got around to buying some iron-on patches for the holey jeans mentioned in my last post. I followed the directions for applying them. Then I washed the jeans, and the patch came off for the...
View ArticleGetting started at last
I started this blog because I wanted to write about Permaculture and self-reliance projects. At the time I'd taken a Permaculture course but lived in a 3rd floor walkup in a condo building where the...
View ArticleGroundhog Protection
This is the cage we built to keep groundhogs out of our raised bed. I call it Botsford's Incarcitorium For Wayward Produce. It's made of PVC and chicken wire, and was both more expensive and more...
View ArticleSetbacks
Today I spent all afternoon making a new cage to cover raised beds. After much profanity, fit throwing, deep breathing episodes to regain calm, two trips to the hardware store, and glue (a lot of which...
View ArticleMy neighbor, Mrs. Brown Snake
Was excited to find this Brown Snake under a paving stone in the yard. I hear they eat slugs. Yesterday was fabulous. I planed 3 Nanking Cherry trees and 3 American Plums. I have raspberry, elderberry,...
View ArticleSquirrel Stomachs Are Bottomless Pits
Anybody have ideas about how to keep these guys out of the bird feeder? How can so much food disappear into such a small animal?
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