Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Parenting on snow days
February 2, 2015 | BlogAn attractive young couple asked me what kids are like on snow days.
Douglas Adams on perspective
December 24, 2014 | BlogThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. Douglas Adams
Kurt Vonnegut on profanity
December 11, 2014 | Blog…profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their eyes and ears to you. Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus That and “know your audience” were the two morsels of fatherly wisdom I served up last night. BOOM MOTHERFUCKERS.
General rule
November 19, 2014 | BlogI have this general rule that the thing a company became famous for is the only thing you should buy from them. Nowhere is this more true than kids products. For example, Disney makes good movies, but lousy bed sheets, ugly lamps, and questionable toys. I haven’t read a single book from a toy maker […]
The world is a lie
November 12, 2014 | BlogApparently Curious George isn’t a monkey at all, but a chimp. And Hello Kitty isn’t a cat. I need to lie down.
Don Draper and George Carlin on language
October 28, 2014 | BlogIf you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation. Don Draper, Mad Men By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. George Carlin I think they’re agreeing with each other.
Joseph Heller on paranoia
October 22, 2014 | BlogJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Facebook is annoying
August 8, 2014 | BlogFacebook is like that annoying kid you ask to stop with the annoying thing but they’re all hopped on sugar or bad parenting or something and they’re somebody else’s kid so you can’t touch them, and it’s a public place so they keep pressing buttons and Daddy’s out back having a smoke trying to remember […]
The knack to flying
June 25, 2014 | BlogThe Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything For my daughter, who hasn’t quite found the knack yet. Haha.
Dress codes
June 4, 2014 | BlogDid we have dress codes in high school? We must have. I don’t recall anyone being sent home because of their attire, and we all dressed like homeless people. I guess that’s not as offensive as jean shorts or bra straps.