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My Life in Music, Vol. XII

I’d like to thank Barrett for co-opting this idea from other bloggers, so that I might co-opt it from him. ‘Cause as far as new ideas go, I’m in kind of a dry season lately.
The 1970s.
Most memories are dim, as I was only 5 by the end of the decade, but here are a few [...]

Hair Collection Chamber

We spent today on an ungodly shopping expedition, fueled by payday and grandma. Something I’ve quickly discovered is that when it comes to financial windfalls, they generally don’t come big enough to cover the consumer goods I daydream about (the iPod being a notable exception). This is a tremendously good thing in the long run, [...]

iPod, et al.

Due to an unexpected gift from one of my awesome grandmas, I’ve now got enough in my coffee can full of loose change to buy the iPod I haven’t been able to stop thinking about for the past who the hell knows how long. I can’t stress enough how freakin’ excited I am about this. [...]

Bluh.

Man, Christ. I’m just out of fucking gas. I think I’m getting sick again, I’m out of this totally magic time-release vitamin C I was using to ward off the sick monster, and I can’t afford more ’til Friday. We’re out of ibuprofen. We’re out of bread. We’re out of meat. We’re out of coffee. [...]

All/all/all … all for love

I can’t remember where I read it (Barrett? Was it you?), but somebody else out in yon blogosphere recently mentioned seeing “The Three Musketeers” on cable like twice in the past week, and that got me thinking peripherally about “The Three Musketeers,” and so when Darleece and I retook our respective sofas this morning [...]

Huhuh.

I opened up the sports page yesterday, and there at the top of the page, in 2,231-point type, was the following:

Okay, okay, I know it’s his nickname and all, but people, come on.
I speak from experience here: When you’re writing headlines at a newspaper, things happen to your sanity. You start looking for even the [...]

(cough.)

Sick. Sick sucks.
When I get sick, I immediately turn on every person I know, no matter how deeply I love them or how many times they’ve steered me away from the driver’s seat when I was too drunk to walk (why else would you drive drunk?), and my eyes narrow, and all I can think [...]

“Rate Increase.”

Gggggggyyyyyuuuuuuhhhhhh.
Yesterday was the kind of day that makes you take a good, long look at one’s drinking habits and think, “Maybe we need to adjust things a little.” My good, long look came this morning at 4:30, when I spent half an hour trying, in this order, to 1.) not throw up, 2.) not have [...]

Last man standing

This coming weekend will include what I hope to be the last wedding I have to go to for a while. I fully expect it to be awesome, and the persons getting hitched (The Cheat and Lady Cheatterly) should actually be getting hitched, and I’m very happy about that and all.
But god damn, man, I’m [...]

Phew!

Good news, everybody! Oklahoma’s esteemed Senator Jim “Flat Earth” Inhofe just informed the nation, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on the Iraq prisoners’ mistreatment, that the entire fiasco was the work of exactly seven bad apples. Seven misguided servicemen and women, and not the lax command and supervision structure above them, or the [...]

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