Little girl illogic
Me: That’s a cute bunny! Clara: It’s not a bunny. It’s a rabbit! Me: Isn’t a bunny and a rabbit the same thing? Clara: Dad! No! Stop joking! Me: (suitably…
Hannah Horvath versus Walter White: Sometimes it has nothing to do with sex.
If you don’t watch Breaking Bad and Girls, this post will probably be a little too inside baseball for you, but I can’t help but respond to a tweet I…
Nuclear bomb. Homemade timer.
My favorite thing about this incredible and terrifying video of the Baker Shot, a 23-kiloton nuclear bomb that was detonated about 90 feet underwater at Bikini Atoll in 1946, is…
Happy 70th anniversary
My Aunt Diane has informed me that today would have been my grandparents 70th anniversary. Albert Mandeville and Irene Rondeau were married at Precious Blood Church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island…
Do Not Read List
I can’t remember the last time I was anti-book, but in this case, I agree wholeheartedly.
Standing up! First time!
The big guy pulled himself up for the first time last week. Part of me was so damn proud of him. A bigger part of me wanted to knock him…
I’m back.
Sorry, dear reader, for my recent absence. Rest assured it was the result of a lack of ideas or two days of oversleep or even death. I mention the death…
I invited Bill Clinton and Oprah to our wedding. Their response was not surprising.
Last week lesbian student Kirsten Bledsoe asked actress Mila Kunis to be her date for her college cotillion via YouTube. She is still waiting for a response. When Elysha and…
The bogeyman goes straight. But he’s still a bogeyman to me.
Two years ago I wrote about the Blackstone Valley sniper on this blog. In a post entitled Childhood Bogeyman Returns, I wrote: When I was a kid, my town and…
Two favorite songs? Is that even possible?
A client for an upcoming wedding told me that his mother’s two favorite songs are The Isley Brother’s Twist and Shout and Bob Dylan’s Forever Young. Two songs. I can’t…
