My mother sent myself and some brothers and sisters a few pictures from home two weeks ago, e-mail-ily. She wrote:
“For those who haven’t seen the house this fall. These are both from the back deck…Today most of the leaves are biting the dust–windy and rainy.”
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These pictures look like the house is in a goshdurn woodland glen, untouched by [...]
In one of those Halloween shops this weekend, with Bridgid. You know–those Halloween shops, the ones that randomly spring from the earth this time of year, like earthworms from the soil after a driving rain; except for the fact that earthworms are an important part of the cycle of life, the give and take of our ecosystem, the tapestry [...]
In the grocery store last week, on the phone with my sister. I’m that guy too often; that guy who talks on the telephone in line, and flaps her hands around like an addlepated scarecrow [what?] when the cashier/registerperson addresses her directly. Anywho, the grocery store. On her end, my sister is feeding my baby [...]
Home in Indianapolis for the weekend, for my niece’s sixth birthday party.
I got in late Friday night. On Saturday morning, my parents made breakfast, and we randomly began watching a Western film that was on the TV. My pa’s a real fan of Westerns. This particular Western was called:
ULZANA’S RAID
Of “Ulzana’s Raid”, I will say this. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
One [...]
My mother and I were in a Kroger’s grocery store last Thurday morning, buying goods against the arrival of many, many family members coming into town for
My Brother’s Wedding
As we paused in the meat section, I noticed a man in a long, white butcher’s coat, broad of shoulder and tall of leg–he was the Lumberjack [...]
What? I can’t call you “dearest”? Dearest dearest dearest.
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Finally saw “Star Trek” on Saturday. The sequence of events which opens the movie…I mean…
u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-blee-blee-blee-blee
I glanced over at Bridgid, somewhere in there; we were both in tears. I mean…I mean. J.J Abrams played our heartstrings like a fiddle, he did. Like a plaintive outer space fiddle. Carved [...]
I work near DePaul University, and sometimes I go to the bizarre-ish Dominick’s grocery store on Fullerton. Because it is near DePaul University, I have started playing a game when I go to this Dominick’s. The game is called:
What Do College-Aged Guys Purchase At The Grocery Store
It is a tremendously entertaining game, and good to pass the time in [...]
I got home tonight from an Easter spell on the homefront. I’m tired, I’m luggage, I’m _______.
Thusly, I’m going to Post The Real Deal on Wednesday, aka Tax Day. I can’t give this week a miss, gentle readers. Too much pudding-goodness going on. Too much pirate.
On Monday morning, I was “rapping” [you'll have heard of that?] with [...]
On Christmas Eve, we turned on “A Christmas Story” in the kitchen, as pecans were being chopped and sugar was being sprinkled and dumplings were being rolled and dreams were being baked and et cetera. It had reached the point in the movie where Ralphie had finally gotten his BB gun, and “all hell” hovered [...]
I truly love this, from last Friday’s Chicago Tribune [in reference to the "trouncing" we supposedly took from Old Man Winter the night before, if by "trouncing" you mean "not a trouncing" or "not enough snow to frost a cupcake" or "we've all got cupcakes for hearts if we think that weather was a trouncing" [...]
