Maurice Sendak, author of my favorite childhood (and adulthood) book, "Where the Wild Things Are" passed away this morning after suffering a stroke on Friday. While I never knew him personally, I always felt that he knew me.http://www

Louis Armstrong. On original vinyl. Beautiful, rich and velvety smooth. We dig it, Satchmo, we dig it. This album from 1963 sounds better, quality-wise, than almost anything that comes out nowadays. It's like a warm, cozy blanket that you wrap around you on a chilly winter's morning. Wonderful sounds fills my ears ( Read more... )

Many of you who have known me for years have seen or commented about the odd and unusual resemblance to Davy Jones of the Monkees (moreso for both of us when we were in our youth). I recently learned that Davy passed away today ( Read more... )

In "Everson v. Board of Education", Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black stated The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the federal government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor ( Read more... )

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Yeah, it really takes someone really brave to bash a cat's head in, paint the word "Liberal" on its lifeless corpse, and leave it for the owner (who happens to be an Arkansas Democrat Campaign Manager), his wife, and his children to find, doesn't it ( Read more... )

Because of the economy, unemployment is pretty high. Because unemployment is pretty high, there are a lot of people scrambling for jobs. Because there are a lot of people scrambling for jobs, employers can hire people at significantly lower rates of pay than before. Because employers can hire people at significantly lower rates of pay, their " ( Read more... )

Last weekend, "the boys" went crabbing. The boys being two of my friends, myself and one of my friend's son. After a long afternoon of talking smack, chasing and pushing each other while on two foot wide docking piers, jumping in and out of a boat, trying to make someone end up in the water and ultra high levels of extremely inappropriate jokes ( ( Read more... )

"You just don't like kids!"

I've heard that many times and in many situations. Many of my friends even believe this but in reality, it's not that I don't like kids because I actually do. No, I don't want any of my own because... to be completely honest... I'm extremely greedy with what I have. I don't want to devote my life, my sanity, my toys, or ( Read more... )

One of my cow-orkers, whom I always prank*, just put a huge handful of the circles that are made when you punch holes in pieces of paper in a nice pile in my work mail bin. We punch a lot of holes here.

I walked over to her desk and asked if she'd heard tonight's weather forecast. I proceeded to sprinkle all of the circles all over her desk.

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