Archive for the 'random' Category
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. [...]
Fridge
Just got back from a trip to Bensalem, where we picked up a free refrigerator for our kegs.
Thanks to that guy who writes at Lutton Square, I should be drinkign a frosty one tomorrow (I’d say tonight, but by the time the refrigerator’s down to the right temperature, it’ll be 4:00 AM or so.
Off to [...]
Possum
There’s a young possum stuck on my front porch. It’s been there for about two hours.
Earlier, my housemate tried to poke it off with a stick, but it wouldn’t leave. I’m not sure if it’s stuck, rabid, or just plain slow. If it’s there tomorrow morning I suppose I’ll have to call animal [...]
Sturdy Stuff
Sometime in April, I did the labor to plant a vegetable garden out back. I don’t have much of a green thumb personally, limiting myself to hard-to-kill houseplants, but Christina is a different story. She bought seeds all spring, and planned out where everything would go. Since my backyard was filled with weeds [...]
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