Working hard for the money
Thought this might be fun. Here’s an updated list of all the jobs that I’ve held in my life, in chronological order. 1. Farm laborer, Blackstone, MA: When I was…
Ice the bunny
My wife can’t throw away stuffed animals, even if she despises the furry, inanimate objects. Tonight she attempted to throw away a worn-out, bedraggled, hand-me-down stuffed bunny, but try as…
Namesake
In an effort to convince a former student to name her new dog after me, I told her this amusing but true story. About six years ago my DJ partner,…
Read, damn it
From the Washington Post piece entitled Get a Good Read on the Market: Pick Up a Book: As Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger has said in assessing the success…
Turkey baster
I’ve often been advised to learn something new everyday. And I try. Today’s bit of knowledge was especially interesting. I learned that artificial insemination via an anonymous sperm donor can…
ScissorS
From The Washington Post’s story entitled Fun Facts About Our English Language: Are there any words that exist only as a plural? There are quite a few, including scissors, binoculars…
Stepping back into history
I spent the afternoon visiting my childhood home in Blackstone, Massachusetts, a house that I lived in from the ages of three to seventeen before my evil step-father stopped paying…
Mass suicide is clearly insane, but the parting of the Red Sea lives in Crazy Town, too.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Heaven’s Gate. Remember the cult? They were the people who believed that an alien spacecraft was following behind the Hale-Bopp comet, and that in…
Beware of what?
What does the homeowner want me to believe? Beware of God, because horrible crimes and atrocities are committed in his name (not to mention a number of atrocities committed by…
Would I even be hungry?
This list of final meal requests from death row inmates fascinates me. Each represents the last request from a dying man. Like Gerald Mitchell: One bag of Jolly Ranchers. And…
