It’s a Nephew!!!

Congratulations to my lil sis and bro-in-law on their first baby, a whopper of a boy!!!  Nine pounds, 5 ounces, wow!! 
Welcome to the world, new nephew!  Can’t wait to hear what your name will be!

Pedestrians and Other Genetic Mishaps

On the whole pedestrians suck.  Since I do have legs and tend to walk once in awhile, I also suck.  I would offer that I suck less than the average pedestrian, though.
Signs of a sucky pedestrian:
1.  You’re a jaywalker.  You know it’s bad when you have a label for doing a bad deed.  I will [...]

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

There really isn’t anything much on to watch anymore.  Stupid writers strike. 
And yes, I am smarter than a fifth grader. 
This guy on the idiot box right now doesn’t know which continent the largest rainforest is, how many E’s are in the word Mathematics, or what a reciprocal might be.  Yikes.  Was Jeff Foxworthy teaching this [...]

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Just started reading this yesterday and really like it so far.  I’m on chapter five, whoo-hoo.  Tom Joad is going home after getting out of  jail for homicide (somewhat of self-defense, I think, but he probably started the fight).  There was one whole chapter about a turtle crossing the road.  I thought that it was [...]

Steven Wright

I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.

The Whole JLo Butt Thing, or How to Get More Hits for Your Website in Ten Words or Less

I complained a little while back about having a big butt.  It seems that people are really into big butts, or want to be.  Since I’ve posted there has been a rush to see some ‘JLo butts’ or ‘big butt women’ or some word combination thereof.  Who knew my big butt was leading the way [...]

Same Business, New Place

Funny how perspective can sometimes give you a reality check on how crappy your job used to be.  When I think of working for the bookstore now, I can’t believe I even stayed that long.  Perhaps nothing wrong with the bookstore itself, but with my own place within it.  It just wasn’t the right type [...]

Robert Frost

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

“To Build a Fire” – Jack London

I’m not sure what exactly about this short story took me and shook meby the back of my neck until I lay, mouth frothing, on the floor nearly unconscious.  It’s an incredibly simple story:  man is trekking to logging camp in Yukon in freezing temperatures.  I would say also ‘alone’ but he is accompanied by [...]

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (a review, a summary and a punny 100 stones)

Crane’s “The Open Boat” went swimmingly.
The only named man died.  The captain
Bossed everyone else around.  They
Still called him ‘sir’.  Funny, the traditions
We hold on to, even in a dinghy, even
With the phosphorous of a shark fin
That visits nightly.  The captain held the water jar.
Maybe that was his job.  The jar survived
When they went overboard.  [...]