Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Kurt Vonnegut on happiness
June 3, 2014 | BlogOne of the things [Uncle Alex] found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the […]
Neko Case on heaven
June 2, 2014 | BlogA favourite Neko Case lyric has been looping through my brain all weekend, for no discernible reason. I’m not complaining. “And heaven will smell like the airport, But I may never get there to prove it. So let’s not waste our time thinking how that ain’t fair.”
Cranberry mayo
April 16, 2014 | BlogNo mayo manufacturer has bottled a cranberry mayo? Isn’t that the kind of cater-to-the-lazy product that companies love? #crannaise
The Conjouring
March 17, 2014 | BlogSaw The Conjouring on the weekend. Scariest movie I ever saw. Dood had 5 daughters. FIVE DAUGHTERS. They kept tumbling out of his car like clowns at a circus. I couldn’t believe it. I guess there was a haunted house or something too, and the mother tried to kill everybody BUT WHATEVER WHO CAN BLAME […]
Gender specific toys
March 10, 2014 | BlogMy brain reminded me of the time some caveman berated his son for playing with a girl rock, and the boy was looking at the rock wondering “What?” and his cave dad was all “nonono, play with the cave manly rocks over there. Quickly. Before someone sees you.” Then later while the cave boy was […]
My office is a cross-border town
January 2, 2014 | BlogIf I sit straight at my desk, I’m at work. If I swivel 10 degrees, I’m at home. My office is a cross-border town. WHAT MAGIC IS THIS.
Tell him about the Twinkie
January 2, 2014 | BlogEvery time I go into the furnace room my inner dialog is this: “How’s the grid holding up?…It’s getting crowded in there and all my data points to something big on the horizon.” By then I’ve grabbed the OJ carton from the mini fridge and started back upstairs.
School bus memories
November 27, 2013 | BlogWhen I was a kid my school bus was cancelled, I swear to god, like zero times. There’d be snow up to our armpits, and the bus would just drive faster. It was really cold, too. We’d burn our lunch bags for heat. After we ate the half dozen apples mom packed for my lunch, […]
Scarlet the cat
July 25, 2013 | BlogThe Great Mouse Tormentor. Scourge of the Food Bowl. The Master Napper. Scarlet the Cat, died today at 15 years of age. So it goes.