Breakfast cereal migrates. From its nest in the kitchen cabinet, cereal moves to new homes through the house. I have never seen the process of the actual migration. I have only seen the end results. I am not a trained watcher, and I think that perhaps my presence would “spook” the breakfast cereal. Yet, itContinue reading “On Kitchen Migrations”
Category Archives: Asides
On Band Names
If there isn’t a band out there named “IKEA Rage,” then there fucking well should be. Because we’re all a little Tyler Durden, y’know? Blogged with the Flock Browser
On Lugging Around Metal
Sometimes the change machine at the subway terminal drives me crazy. This was one of those days. About once a week I’ll use a twenty dollar bill in the machine. The change comes back as dollar coins. Then, I use the dollar coins to pay my fare the following few days. I put in theContinue reading “On Lugging Around Metal”
On Saturday Morning Blahs
I hate the heat. It was hot last night. Very hot. Stuffy. Stifling. I couldn’t get comfortable in bed. I tossed. I turned. I woke dehydrated. My mouth felt gummy and gross. It’s Saturday morning. I feel “blah.” My mind, already mush, became, if possible, even more mushy. I wrote 30,000 words this week. Thirty.Continue reading “On Saturday Morning Blahs”
On Life Annoyances
I have a poison ivy rash on my wrist. It itches. Oh, does it itch. It itches bad. It itches so bad. Is that grammatically correct? I think not… Itch! I hate itch. Blech.
On Today’s Word for the Day
Chronotaraxis. Use it in everyday conversation! 🙂 Blogged with the Flock Browser
On Ice Cream Sandwiches
My grandmother ate my ice cream sandwiches. Had she eaten them and thrown the wrappers away, I’d have been annoyed, but it wouldn’t have been a tragedy. Had she eaten them and left the wrappers on the counter, I’d have been annoyed, but I’d have been okay. Had she eaten them partially, and frozen whatContinue reading “On Ice Cream Sandwiches”
On Economic Curiosities
Strangely enough, Guinness is now cheaper than Sam Adams.
On April’s Search Phrases
Rather than play the usual game of rambling about the things people most want to know, on the theory that I know something about them, instead we’ll look at the things people least want to know about. In the month of April, 1900 different search phrases were entered in Google or Yahoo! or MSN toContinue reading “On April’s Search Phrases”
On the Backyard Bricks
From upstairs I heard yelling. My grandmother was yelling about something. She’d been quiet all day long — she hadn’t shown any interest in watching whatever race was on FOX, instead she wanted to spend the day going through her box of cancelled checks from twenty years ago. (Among those checks, by the way, isContinue reading “On the Backyard Bricks”