Archive for January 2011
You hurt my feelings. I’m taking my toys and going home.
UCONN booster Robert Burton’s sent a scathing letter to school athletic director Jeff Hathaway indicating that he was upset that Hathaway did not follow his advice in the hiring of Paul Pasqualoni as head football coach earlier this month. The chief executive officer of Greenwich, Conn.-based Burton Capital Management wants the school to return $3…
Read MoreI am at a loss for words. I simply cannot believe what I have just seen.
I cannot believe what I just saw. Did you watch the State of the Union speech on Tuesday? Do you remember President Obama’s well received jokes regarding airport pat-downs and smoked salmon? These jokes got laughs. The salmon joke got a lot of laughs. Here is video of the salmon joke from the speech: And…
Read MoreBig Love is too much love
After watching four seasons of HBO’s drama Big Love, one thing has become abundantly clear to me: One wife is more than enough. Besides, polygamy violates the tenets of a minimalist lifestyle.
Read MoreI am the father of a two-year old.
My little girl turned two years old yesterday. Here is what I wrote to her on the day that she was born: _______________________________________________ Our day began yesterday, at 11:53 PM, when you mother awoke me from twenty minutes of glorious sleep to inform me that her water had broken. In fact, it was still breaking.…
Read MoreMaybe not a rapist, but the guy can’t even get a date
Ben Roethlisberger was never convicted or even charged with the crime to which he stood accused, and as someone who was once arrested and tried for a crime he did not commit, I am sensitive to this fact. I am the annoying person who is always inserting the word allegedly into people’s hyperbolic and emotional…
Read MoreAssigned seating sucks
I learned an important lesson last week. I arrived early to a workshop in order to sit at the table of my choice. This was the second day of training, and so I was familiar with the classroom layout from the previous day’s training. I knew that I would be spending the next seven hours…
Read MoreI don’t know guys this cool
But I really wish I did.
Read MoreHuh?
There are some things that restaurants should always have on hand.
Read MoreMy daughter may be in communication with aliens
Yesterday morning Clara began systematically removing balls from the ball pit and placing them in various kitchen accouterments. Later in the day, at her birthday party at her aunt’s house, she did this: Remember Richard Dreyfuss’s character and his obsession with Devil’s Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Dreyfuss’s character spent…
Read MoreSometimes she’s a little too witty
I’m reading Stephen King’s new short story collection, All Dark, No Stars. The final story in the book is about a woman who discovers that her husband of twenty-five years is a serial killer. Pretty creepy. The guy is an accountant, a father and a Cub Scout leader. And apparently the brutal killer of young…
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