A sickness perhaps, but not a hobby
I was recently speaking to a friend about hobbies, and she claimed that her hobby was shopping. When I expressed my doubts that shopping is a legitimate hobby, she attempted…
Human targets
For the past month of so, I’ve been working on improving my golf game by hitting whiffle balls in the front yard. The goal has been to hit the ball…
In twenty-five years…
… we will wonder why everyone in the world was obsessed with vampires. … we will fail to understand why people opted to eat raw fish when perfectly good cooked…
Nursery rhymes, my style
Amongst my thousands of other projects, I’ve been working on a book of inappropriate nursery rhymes, based upon this little ditty that I came up with a couple years ago.…
Melting ice or a bullet in the head?
There’s been much discussion over the potential loss of the polar bears as a result of the recent melting of polar ice. Many environmentalists have adopted the polar bear as…
I will pledge whatever my teacher says…
I’m just about finished reading THE BOOK THIEF, which provides a very interesting view of Nazi Germany from the perspective of a child. Among other things, the book portrays a…
Too close for comfort
From time to time my in-laws have debated moving from their sizable home in the Berkshires into a 350 square foot, single room apartment that they own in Manhattan. I…
The choice is made!
After publicly flogging my fellow book club member (her words) and having another member propose that we may need to consider group therapy, a choice was finally made: BOTH WAYS…
Childhood bogeyman returns
When I was a kid, my town and the surrounding communities were terrorized by the Blackstone Valley sniper. For a period of about two years, someone was firing a rifle…
DJ blunders and tribulations
Just as we were leaving to yesterday’s wedding, more than an hour away from home, my DJ partner, Bengi, noticed that the a tire on the truck was flat. Not…
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