Archive for March 2013
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 chastened) Okay, okay. Clara: (holding the stuffed animal to my face) This is a rabbit. Do you know what her name is? Me: No. What?…
Read MoreHannah 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 saw earlier this week (when I blog was down) by writer Jessica Grose. She tweeted: Thinking about how way more people talk about how “awful”…
Read MoreNuclear 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 the countdown timer in the first few frames. They are detonating a nuclear bomb, and yet the timer looks as though someone has written in…
Read MoreHappy 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 on a Monday morning, March 22, 1943, while my grandfather was on leave from the Army. My Aunt Carolyn was born almost exactly 10 months…
Read MoreDo Not Read List
I can’t remember the last time I was anti-book, but in this case, I agree wholeheartedly.
Read MoreStanding 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 on his ass and tell him to stop growing up.
Read MoreI’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 part because one reader inquired about my state of existence after missing two days of posts. She understandably pointed to my two near-death experiences as…
Read MoreI 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 I got married in 2006, I sent a dozen invitations to famous athletes and celebrities. Derek Jeter. Don Mattingly. Oprah. Tom Hanks. Bill and Hillary…
Read MoreThe 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 the surrounding communities were terrorized by the Blackstone Valley sniper. For a period of about two years, someone was firing a rifle into picture windows…
Read MoreTwo 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 imagine what my children might say someday if asked by a DJ what their father’s two favorite songs are. I love so many songs by…
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