This meme is borrowed form chris_the_red. When I am through, it will be returned with a full tank ( Read more... )

1. murder, police, train --The Black Cat ( Read more... )

Moments ago, from out of my kitchen window, I saw a 50+ year old gent, wheeling up the side-street on a lawn tractor. After conversing briefly with a lad on a bike, he popped a wheelie and drove off.

If I see a Nicholas Cage lookalike in Elvis garb, this house goes up for sale.

I want so badly to use the word "bloviate." I heard or read it the other day, and goes through my mind like a song. The problem is I am not quite sure of the word's meaning, but sense it is onomatopoeic (or hope this is the case.)

Looking up the definition would just be wrong.

The pluck of the adventurers is matched by admiration ( Read more... )

Where have I been? What have I done ( Read more... )

For shame...

Gerald Ford conducted his life in honorable fashion and served his country to the best of his ability. He deserves a better send off than the (Cleveland) Pain Dealer's headline "The accidental president."

No one who takes on the monumental responsibility of the U.S. presidency deserves such an indignity.

Not this year, nor in the foreseeable future will Walter Matthau's reading of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! become a treasured Seasonal memory. I must cleanse my mind with a handful of Yuletide snow but the temperature is 45F ( Read more... )

Sierra Club sure can entice one with their Email come-ons....

Subject: You're Invited to a Party with Al Gore

It has been one week since tooth number 17 has been extracted. Number 17, is the lower left wisdom tooth (upper right if you are viewing me while hanging upside down from a chandelier). My dentist was insistent, sighting the ivory as the root ( Read more... )