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…
Do I have to be a Frenchy?
New Rule: When you don’t know something, there is no need to announce your ignorance to the world, because it might just be something that everyone else knows, making you…
Possibly maybe potentially exciting. Someday. Maybe.
Both SOMETHING MISSING and UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO have been optioned to producers, one for film and the other for television. All this really means is that someone has paid me a…
My dream
In the novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut writes: I make my living being impolite. I can only pray to be as fortunate someday.
Floor plan of Dunder Mifflin
I love The Office. There was a time when Jim and Pam weren’t together that I hung on every machination of their potential relationship. The best part of this floor…
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