Boning Up

My last excursion was up to China Town, which led me to the following discovery: I am not ready for authentic Chinese cuisine. Fried duck tongues? Pass. Snails and pork intestine in porridge? Pass. Snails and crispy fins? Yes, still pass. Speaking with the only person I know who has admitted to eating pork intestine, […]

April In Manhattan

Is it April already? The months keep slipping away . . . just a month ago it felt like March. Whatever. It’s April, and I am sitting around in my boxers in a hotel overlooking the World Trade Pit. What a life. Earlier today it was still April, but at least I wore pants. Had […]

Snakes on the plains

Okay, technically it isn’t a plain, but rather a prairie. Snakes on the prairie just doesn’t have the plagiaristic ring I was going for, though. It’s sad, but I haven’t actually seen any snakes in the year I’ve lived here. Nor lizards. Plenty of mice, gophers, shrews, grasshoppers, praying mantises, ants, wasps, hornets, bees, flies […]

Smokin’

Yesterday was a burn day out here on the prairie. The grass farmers are torching several thousand acres, so the wife and boy-child may want to hold their breath for a few days to reduce the risk of asthma attacks. This is the smoke rising from behind the houses across the street from me. Can’t […]

Sing Me To Sleep

Sleep, that teasing slut, showed up late and left early last night. I will try not to pass out at my keyboard today, but everything is fuzzy and far away. I want sleep. Replacing sleep with chocolate and caffeine does not work any more. Am I getting old? On the plus side, my neck and […]

It’s Not A Good Morning To Be A Mouse

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Free!

Don’t say I never gave you anything: Here’s my ultra-awesome 1440×900 desktop background image. Click on the little image to load the big one. Then right-click to save it. Obviously you also don’t need to thank me for making it easy. Related Images:

You can’t throw a stick without hitting an osprey around here

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In lieu of blowing s**t up

(this is NOT a duck. This is a little girl!) In lieu of blowing s**t upI am going to tell you a joke. Not tell really, but relate. Present? Whatever it id does not matter, as the joke is not very good. Not in the standard sense, that is. Most jokes rely on the juxtaposition […]

What’re YOU looking at, fool?

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