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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I took a shot at putting this to words and gave up for the night; I’m exhausted, and it read like a B paper from a sophomore comp class. So, for tonight, here’s this: … and the following, which says more about last night than I can articulate properly this evening. Enjoy.
sunrise, sunset; sunriiiise, sunset
Monday, November 3rd, 2008A grab bag of a post today, reflecting a grab bag of a day. First, the simple delights of a drive-in pre-show reel from the 1950s, including an inexplicable anti-Daylight Saving Time spot: I tend to just go ahead and assume that anyone taking a frothing stance agianst Daylight Saving Time is kind of basically [...]
oh, Kotter. you old so-n-so.
Saturday, November 1st, 2008It’s not that nothing’s been going on lately, and thus I haven’t been writing about it. It’s just that the same things have gone on in repeat succession, day after day, and that those things are quite frankly kind of bumming me out, and thus I guess I’d just rather not give these things the [...]
… riiiiight …
Saturday, September 13th, 2008… so today we cut through the cemetery on our way to get a hamburger*. And we were slowly following this winding path through the place. And we rounded a corner next to this big pond in the middle of things. And there was a coyote eating a Canada Goose he’d killed. In the middle [...]
unbelievable awesomeness
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008I would like all two of you to go read about how, with a lot of focus and practice and presumably some natural talent, an actual real-life person can enter the running (rolling) for something really, really spectacularly badass. I mean, the Olympics are one thing, but dude, this is kind of seriously huge to [...]
Lemme go! You’ll get it on my foot!
Monday, January 28th, 2008Usually Smudge can not be carried enough, but when I tried to show her my cold sore Helen Keller style, she got super pissed. I should be grossed out by putting my cat’s foot near my mouth, but rest assured, her precious paw pads have never in their lives touched cat litter. She teeters on [...]
history!
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Back during the halcyon days of our collective unemployment, the wife and I took a day trip to our fair city’s delightful Field Museum, taking in its exhibit on maps and a bunch of other fascinating crud they’ve got there. Here, a record of this trip.
the groynd
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007It’s strange to suddenly be headed downtown again every morning after two and a half months of either unemployment or working in the suburbs. It’s nice, though, and it reminds me how ill-prepared I was to return to the suburbs every day, where you really don’t have the option of not driving (or at least [...]
Lake effect
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I spent a bit of last Friday afternoon sulking around downtown. After I saw all the Kristkindle village ornament booths out on Daley Plaza, I went to Marshall Field’s and took pictures of the ceiling. I really wanted to gawk up at it, but it’s over the cosmetics department and perfume had risen to the [...]
daylight SUCK time, is more like it
Monday, November 5th, 2007Last winter when the clocks fell back, I was too armpit-deep in bafflement and wonder at our new home and its countless wonders* to pay much attention to the toll that the end of Daylight Saving Time took. At some point I looked up and realized it was only light for two hours a day, [...]
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