Rhinos and lions and left-handers, oh my!
Two years ago I wrote a post about group descriptors. Phrases like a pride of lions and a murder of crows, as well as three that I invented myself. Based…
Winnie the Pooh aborted. Too damn frightening.
My wife and I attempted to take our daughter to her first movie yesterday. In truth, Clara has been to many movies as an infant but has no recollection as…
Colorforms teach important life lessons about the limitations of caregivers and the importance of suppressing your feelings.
My daughter played with Colorforms for the first time today.She loves the toy. Today she organized a baby’s birthday party, and as she assembled the people and balloons and cakes…
Chatting with your ex-wife at a football game or marrying your ex-wife’s first husband. Which is worse?
I often make fun of my friend, Shep, for spending more time speaking and texting his ex-wife while we are attending Patriots games than I spend talking or texting my…
Respect yourself and shut up.
I cannot stand to listen to people complain about being disrespected. Earlier this week I listened to professional football players complain about being disrespected by team owners for prematurely voting…
New business idea: Rorschach tee-shirts
My daughter does not know what a ninja is yet, nor is she able to discern the face embedded in my Ask a Ninja tee-shirt. Instead, she sees three separate …
St. John Eyre Rivers is a single-minded jackass, but I love him just the same
Last Jane Eyre post. I promise. But I love this section of text. Jane has discovered that she is the heiress to a sizeable fortune in informs her cousin, St.…
My Moth story (or as close an approximation of the story as I can muster)
Hopefully the story that I told at the recent Moth StorySlam will one day be broadcast as one of their weekly podcasts, but many, many outstanding stories are told at…
Populating the bathroom with antiques and curiosities
“Don’t mind the dying cat,” my friend, Shep, said after directing me to the bathroom. I peed sitting down. I was afraid to turn my back on the thing.
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