oof!

I’m out of the fortress for several days or frozen to a bus stop by a coating of ice. Either way, no blog posts for a while. I’ll be back before the New Year’s polar bear swim, that’s for sure.

dog joy

I just saw three very large, contented-looking raccoons making tracks through our back yard, but none of them were having as much fun as the dog in this video that Maggie sent me. It’s probably been around a lot, but worth a rerun. Better without the soundtrack, I think. I’m posting this to celebrate the [...]

cold crimes against humanity

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Every year in October, a bunch of people run naked through the streets of Boulder, Colorado. Naked, except for hollowed out pumpkins on their heads. Sounds like a normal, healthy activity to me, but this year the cops arrested a dozen of these people and threatened to register them as sex offenders. The first of [...]

check out the tentacles

Be sure to wait for the song at the end. Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone bursts into song!

soup that eats

I noticed this on the label on a can of soup in my cupboard: “The soup that eats like a meal.” I don’t want a soup that eats like anything! I want a soup that will passively be eaten. What the hell is this all about? Meals don’t eat, right? Unless they mean a mealworm.

Maybe [...]

worst word of the year

“Impactful.”

the poetry hat

The elderly Bastian boy forced me to leave my comfortable abode and travel an entire mile to see a Seattle Poetry Slam event at the Shilshole Bay Beach Club. A well-known slammer from Boston was there, though because of my dang schedule, I couldn’t stay long enough to see her. Instead I watched the first [...]

milk

Saw the movie, “Milk” this weekend. Pretty good. Managed to get a tear in my eye. Sean Penn is great, as usual. The film was educational, to whatever extent it resembled what really happened. Gave a feel for the time and place and atmosphere surrounding the Moscone/Milk killings. Of course, what really hits you in [...]