Oh Hell No

Listen up Swine Flu, don’t you mess up my trip home.  You better be out of America by the end of May or we will have words.  That’s right Swine Flu, words!
 
Also,  this week’s lesson: Don’t try to convince Ayn Rand fans that national health care is a good thing.  The words you use may [...]

10 Songs that remind me of . . .

My wedding — Don’t Falter at the Altar by Cab Calloway, The Luckiest by Ben Folds and She’s an Angel by They Might be Giants.  The first was played as people were sitting down before the service.  Jeremy had known since the first time he heard this song as a kid that he wanted it [...]

Complaint file

I am supposed to be in Italy right now.  I should have seen David Byrne live last night and should be on my way to Sicily.  Right now.  Sadly I am at work in London.  And not that London isn’t great, it is great, but it is not Italy.  The coffee from the machine in [...]

32 whole years

So my brithday was this weekend (in case you didn’t realize it was on the 19th, I don’t mind if your presents get here late so don’t be embarrassed if you haven’t sent them yet).  To celebrate I invited friends out to the Old Nun’s Head in Nunhead for drinks and general revelry.  I drank [...]

Things I didn’t do this year

So my big goal for last year was to finish the first draft of my book.  Yeah, that hasn’t happened.  I have a good chunk of the lousy thing done, but it definitely isn’t finished.  But this year, I tell you, THIS YEAR, is going to be my year.  the first draft is going to [...]

Poor little scrapper

So a few months ago we heard through the Nunhead grapevine that Oliver had sent another cat to the vet in brawl.  I don’t entirely trust the veracity of this report as it come from an elderly woman with suspect eyesight, but neither would I dismiss it out of hand.  There are a lot of [...]

In case you weren’t sure

This is what I want for my birthday.  Jon Hamm or Paul Rudd will do.
Please also include airfare to LA.  Thanks.

My life is like a country western song, no joke.

Seriously, this is worse than my dog getting run over, my truck getting stolen and my wife leaving me all combined together.
They’ve moved the office vending machine.
Yesterday at around 10:45 in the AM I was feeling a bit peckish, so I thought, “Hmm, I shall choose one of the healthier snacks from the office vending [...]

I Am Not a Gun!

And in keeping with today’s general tone of melancholy, I give you this article about one of my all time favorite movies, The Iron Giant. 
When my friend Renee and I drove from Detroit to Las Vegas at the end of 1999 we set a tiny Iron Giant on the dashboard of my Ford Escort.  He [...]

Sad Face

I am a bit grouchy this week because Jeremy’s trip to Asia has been confirmed.  Normally this kind of thing would not make me grouchy, just a bit sad, but this particular trip will fall right on top of my brithday (and his too, but let’s be honest, my birthday is the important one here).  [...]