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Tell Me About It
Men More Forgetful than Women.
Gee, that’s a surprise.
Let me tell you how dependent I am on my girlfriend’s memory. She always knows where to find my keys. She knows where my belt is. She knows where I leave the dishes, the food, the whatever.
However, I’m not as bad as my father, who I have to [...]
The Jersey Girl
I met a little girl in Knoxville
A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening
Out in her home I’d dwell
We went to take an evening walk
About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down
That’s the first couple of verses to “The Knoxville Girl”, a particularly bloody murder [...]
The Worst People In the World
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo., Nov. 21 — Megan Meier died believing that somewhere in this world lived a boy named Josh Evans who hated her. He was 16, owned a pet snake, and she thought he was the cutest boyfriend she ever had.
Six weeks after Megan’s death, her parents learned that Josh Evans never existed. He [...]
Read More..>>A Resolution
A post or two ago I went on about the stress headache.
I am really happy to say that the static with my housemate seems to be, for the moment, resolved, and in a totally constructive way.
I know that in person and on line I can come across as a high stress person with a hair [...]
Produce Humor
There’s not mushroom for this kind of humor here at Brendan Calling, and if I’d know this was where this pear of Keane’s was going, ida red something else. I don’t carrot all for food jokes, but lettuce all back up a little and not get all hot under the collard.
Avocado go to work [...]
Other Worlds
I was emailing earlier this week with a conservative reader here who took issue with the SCHIP post. I stand by my main point: none of the attacks on 12 year old Graeme Frost or his family addressed the substance of their argument. They were nothing but cheap, ad hominem attacks. The same would [...]
Read More..>>Fusion
I don’t know why, but sometime last week a brand new Gilette Fusion razor arrived at my house as part of some promotional campaign. It’s got five blades, plus a single blade in the back for precision areas like sideburns.
I tend to be kind of a luddite about my shaving equipment: I was really [...]
Read More..>>Frankford Avenue, 3/12/07
I was walking back from the Chinese joint at Girard Avenue with some rice to eat with my Indian food, passing the intersection of Shackamaxon and Frankford. There’s a bus stop there, and this 50-something year old man shaped like an overripe pear with breasts was sitting there waiting for the 5 or maybe the [...]
Read More..>>Tangents
When I drive to work I take the Girard Avenue exit, but eschew Girard Avenue itself, because the street is lined with double-parked delivery trucks, fast-moving trolleys and slow-moving buses, and stop lights. Instead, I drive a block further, hang a right under I-95 and cut through the shopping center at Aramingo and York:
The [...]
Read More..>>As If No One Saw THAT Coming…
Susie’s got this goofy “What Tarot Card Are You?” quic going on at her site. (For what it’s worth, I was a woman a few moments ago, and now I’m the Devil. Oh wait, now I’m the Sun. I knew that astrology stuff was wack!)
Anyway, poking around I found the Sesame Street quiz. [...]
