I was just offered an adjunct position down at SEMO. It'll be for about seven hours, which I'll squeeze into one day ('cause who wants to drive down to Cape more than once a week); I'll be paid mileage and travel time as well as salary ( Read more... )

Conundrum: The Red Sox are trailing the Yankees by two in the east, and are tied with the White Sox for the Wild Card. The Yankees are playing the White Sox. Whom do I root for (ignoring for a moment the maxim "never root for the Yankees")? Or do I simply view it as a situation with no downside ( Read more... )

Today I wave goodbye to twentysomethinghood. I'd love to say something profound about this--maybe talk about how 30 is no different from 29, or how it is, or some profound reflection on life in general, and aging, and life going on, and being married with a house while being sixty percent of the way to fifty, and really long, comma laced sentences ( Read more... )

All of us have, at some time or other, brought 11 or 12 items to the "Ten Items or Less" lane (which oughta be "Ten Items or Fewer" but that's another nitpick for another day). I am certain, however, that I have never attempted to check out at the ten-items-or-less-express lane with thiry-four things in my cart. Yes, I counted. Second time in a ( Read more... )

Excerpt from last night's conversation with The Wife:

I: I can't believe you called me a nincompoop.
She: At least I didn't call you a ninny.
I: And that's better how?
She: Isn't "ninny" short for "nincompoop"?
I: And that's better how?
She: Well, "nincompoop" is, you know, fancier.

Such are our 1AM conversations.

I shall attempt an actual update here ( Read more... )

And the fifth horseman of the apocalypse:

Disney making Bambi II.

How do you spell irony ( Read more... )

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Somebody took down the John Stewart quote board a couple of years ago, but he came out with a gem today which would have deserved pride of place. In referring to the basses tendency to go flat on the second syllable of "Jehovah":

"Basses, don't go down on the ho."