Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Roger Sterling gives drinking advice
August 29, 2012 | BlogYou don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it’s good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink, because it’s what men do. Roger Sterling, Mad Men
I just took my mind off the hook for a bit
August 10, 2012 | BlogI just took my mind off the hook for a bit. I reckoned that if the world wanted me badly enough it would call back. It did. Ford Prefect, Life, the Universe, and Everything All I get is a dial tone.
I could use a Rain God
July 25, 2012 | BlogAnd as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and […]
Bunnies in the yard
May 25, 2012 | BlogSo I saw a FLUFFIN BUNNY in the yard Wednesday evening. I have been under the impression that the fox, coyote, hawk and I had a (albeit silent) rabbit-free understanding wherein they eat the rodents, and I grow a lovely garden. Now I’m concerned that they’ve contracted my cat’s KILLER’S MALAISE. Side note: do they […]
Calm empowerment
April 5, 2012 | BlogLast night I dreamt of the old farm. This morning I awoke with a feeling of calm empowerment. NICE WHILE IT LASTS.
Save your sanity for later
March 28, 2012 | BlogThe point is, you see, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. Ford Prefect, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams effed it
February 3, 2012 | BlogLet us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Douglas Adams
Unsettling
December 6, 2011 | BlogI dreamt I was late for my Grandpa’s wake at the old church. UNSETTLING.
Relief!
November 15, 2011 | BlogIn July Spare was screened as a very high risk for Trisomy 18. We had a gloomy chat with a genetic councillor, a tense ultrasound, and a slightly more tense amnio in Kingston. August 11th we got the full test results. NO TRACE OF TRISOMY 18. Go hug your kids folks, they’re pretty special people. […]