You wanna tell a female lacrosse player that she can’t wear flip-flops? It’s your funeral, bucko.
Category: Society & Culture
Never Forget
Observing Memorial Day 2005
Housework: Who wears the apron in your family?
American husbands are doing more housework than their wives give them credit for…but it’s still probably not enough.
Dancing Machines
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” In my case, I desired a nap.
Ballroom dancing is harder than it looks. Especially if your corduroy doesn’t rub.
One Ring to Rool, um, Rule Ya’ll
A tribute to the fabled Aggie Ring.
Cruising on autopilot
In which the concept of driving a car is equated to elevator music.
Work Like a Dog
I was walking through our neighborhood this morning, trekking back home after dropping the car at the shop to have the alternator checked out, and as I passed in front of a large home the front door opened and a yellow Labrador retriever came bounding onto the circle drive. He zeroed in on the plastic-wrapped… Continue reading Work Like a Dog
Blogging on the 4th
Here’s a great juxtaposition of technologies: I’m sitting in my front drive, blogging via a wireless connection while overseeing the creation of homemade ice cream in our 25 year old Sears, Roebuck & Company electric freezer. I suppose a more dramatic contrast would involve a hand-cranked freezer, but then I couldn’t blog, so what’s the… Continue reading Blogging on the 4th
This gives new meaning to the term “stage fright”
I saw a brief report of this on CNN Headline News yesterday, and just now found time to follow-up. This is from MSNBC: Visitors to Britain will find a new stop on London’s site-seeing route this spring: a usable public toilet enclosed in one-way mirrored glass situated on a sidewalk near the River Thames. The… Continue reading This gives new meaning to the term “stage fright”
Your Last Meal…?
When, as a mere lad, I began reading science fiction, one of the short stories that stayed in my memory was about a man on death row who made a deal with the devil. The details are a bit hazy — for example, I can’t recall exactly what the devil was going to get out… Continue reading Your Last Meal…?