Archive for May, 2005
Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
You know your blog has reached a milestone when the comment spammers overcome their onsies-twosies shyness, and flood your site with comments, each of which includes a very helpful link to the iridescent gates of Online Casino Land. And while the comments are generally warm, fuzzy and encouraging ("your ...
Posted in left-brain | 9 Comments »
Friday, May 20th, 2005
New York blogger Joey McKeown scooped to conquer today as he claimed, with near flawless perfidy, to know the meaning of the buzz behind the Dawn Eden's enigmatic blog entry today, crowing incoherently about a Vegas mainstream media milestone:
Dawn and I are going off to Las Vegas this weekend to ...
Posted in life | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 20th, 2005
The NY Times carried an interesting piece yesterday about a breakthrough in stem cell research through a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. Actually those S. Koreans' paper fuzzies it up a bit more, shortening S.C.N.T. down to just N.T. And who would object to good ole N.T.?
Well, ...
Posted in politics | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
"Excuse me, but there's a problem."
"Oh?"
"This isn't leatherette."
"Ah, yes, actually you're correct--"
"It's some kind of fake."
Pause. "Ah, hmmm." Corner of an amused smile. "It's faux leatherette."
"Yeah, it's not the real deal."
"Sometimes referred to as faux faux leather."
"I guess so. What are these made of?"
"Leather."
Posted in misc | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
"I realize now that I want to leave you some sense of transcendence." I looked up from my book and glanced around to see to whom the old man spoke. There was no-one else nearby. The old man sat in a wheelchair with his back to me, not ...
Posted in life | 2 Comments »
Saturday, May 7th, 2005
[Click here to read part one.]
"I come down stairs, and there set this man--"
"A man was in your house?" deputy Phil Kelly asked skeptically, crunching his lips to the left. Why do these fellows never look at me when they're talking? he wondered.
Frank Lomack swallowed, his adam's apple sliding ...
Posted in fiction | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 5th, 2005
My son was quite disappointed the other day. We were listening to the New Testament on CD as we drove to school, and just as we arrived at our destination, the Book of the Revelation began. "Aw, man," he began in exasperation.
"Don't worry," I said. "When I ...
Posted in life | 7 Comments »
Sunday, May 1st, 2005
Limo drivers at Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio.
Posted in pictures | 1 Comment »
