Category Archives: Life, the Universe and Everything

Party Like It’s 1899!

Everybody sing! Happy Birthday to you! You live in a zoo. You act like a monkey. And you smell like one tooooooooooo! Note to family: I am not begging for this album for my prezzie. I am groveling. Get it … Continue reading Continue reading

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Telly…

I’m sure it will come as no surprise to you that my mouth likes to remain engaged for quite some time after my brain has pulled the plug. Fortunately, the incoherent ramblings that I am prone to spew in the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Harry Potter <> Devil Worship

Simon (of the big sort) has written an excellent essay called Harry Potter: A Christian’s Viewpoint. Yes, I am a Christian, but I’m a bad Christian. I don’t profess my faith every minute. I do silly things like “[insert deity … Continue reading Continue reading

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Contented Sigh

What is it about Iris DeMent’s voice that hits me right in the gut? She makes me weak in the knees. Life is beautiful when your random MP3’s come up with Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line”, Neil Young “The … Continue reading Continue reading

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Brainwashing

I made a trade. The kids could rent Scary Movie if I could make them sit down and watch 12 Angry Men. Maybe I should have held out for The Ox-Bow Incident, too? Nah. It’s bad enough I’m making them … Continue reading Continue reading

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Pottermania

Holy crap. I just got home from the mall where the Mrs works. Whiny and I decided to go there and taunt her and Pepperkat (who was dressed as a “Random Muggle”), then take in the Hulk (which was way … Continue reading Continue reading

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Jimmy Buffett. Or as I like to call him: Satan the Tempter

About five minutes after I wrote the last post, I got in the car and turned on the radio. Yep. “Cheeseburger in Paradise” was playing. Argh! Continue reading

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Vanity, Thy Name is Lestah

I have a package of M&M’s on my desk. It’s one of those fund raiser things for the daughter of a co-worker. The last of five packages, actually. It is mocking me. Since Sunday, I have been on a too-cheap-to-buy-the-book-so-I’ll-figure-it-out-myself … Continue reading Continue reading

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My Wife The Witch

Tonight is the night. If you don’t know what that means, then welcome back from solitary confinement, bud. My beloved works for Barnes and Noble. She “gets to” dress up as a Hogwarts professor and conduct a midnight party for … Continue reading Continue reading

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Praise [ INSERT DEITY HERE ]

Looks like those ritual goat sacrificies Whiny was doing in his room worked. I still think bringing in the Tibetan feces-flinging monkeys for “moral support” was too much, but Houston, we have cable modem! (Sorry, Ric. No Schmuck’s Ink Well … Continue reading Continue reading

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