I needed a coffee mug for the office. The reason? I needed something to put my copious supply of pens in. Cheap coffee mugs, the kind you can buy at the dollar store, work wonders. I went to the dollar store at the mall nearby after work. They had coffee mugs. For a buck each.Continue reading “On Character Coffee Mugs”
Monthly Archives: July 2008
On Gaps In My Cultural Knowledge
I have never watched A Christmas Story. I have never read Where the Wild Things Are. I have never, ever heard of Land of the Giants. The latter, in particular — did people really watch crap like that in the 1960s? And think it was good? Though should I call it “crap,” if I’ve neverContinue reading “On Gaps In My Cultural Knowledge”
On the New Office Digs
I have seen the new office. I have seen my new cubicle. It’s at the window. On the sixth floor. It has a view that goes for miles. I am pleased. 🙂
On Kitchen Migrations
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”
On Subway Reading
An observation. I tend to notice what people read on the subway and light rail. It’s curiosity, pure and simple, and I try to be subtle about it. Often as not, it’s the newspaper. Either the Baltimore Sun, occasionally something from out of town like the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post, but moreContinue reading “On Subway Reading”
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 Resuming Normal Service
And now, after Retro Weekend, we resume normal blogging service. Who knows? Maybe in a couple of months, I’ll feel the need for another Retro Weekend, I’ll put some Creedance in the old stereo, and we’ll rock out again like it’s 1999. 😆 In the meantime, though, I need coffee. And a good descruffyfication. InContinue reading “On Resuming Normal Service”
On Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen
On a mailing list I subscribe to, discussion turned recently to Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. The series were published in 1985 and 1986. Watchmen is credited with beginning the era of “realistic” superheroes, Dark Knight is credited with turning Batman “serious.” It was noted that theContinue reading “On Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen”
On a Retro Weekend
When I was a kid, way back in the early ’80s, a local radio station — Q101, in Harrisonburg, Virginia — used to have “Hot Wax Weekends.” They’d pull music out of the vault and turn back the clocks. It was on a Hot Wax Weekend that I discovered Creedence Clearwater Revival. I first heardContinue reading “On a Retro Weekend”
On E-Mail Inaccessibility
For the record, I love my e-mail client. I use The Bat. I discovered it, what seems like ten years ago, and didn’t begin to use it regularly (yes, finally abandoning Outlook Express) until about 2001. What I love about The Bat is that it works hard to be secure. And that means that it’sContinue reading “On E-Mail Inaccessibility”