One word. One man. One image. Ah, but what is this an ad for? Yes, it’s an ad, not a public service announcement.

There is a Diner today. Can’t let Halloween go by without a Diner. I haven’t done any for a while for two simple reasons: life got busy, and –
Well, first the Busy part. I’m now firmly seated in the new schedule, and I am starting to exhale. As long as I can nap, it’s [...]

Thursday already? Well, YES. That was a stupid question. Or not: I’ve found that days are smearing together as never before. They’re busier. And I get less done.
But Thursday is still the hell-day on which all duties bear down, and Friday still has its standard release, unchanged through the years. It all comes down [...]

Daughter today on the way as we got in the car:
“Hey Dad have you heard that in 2012-”
“It’s nonsense.”
“It is?” She was relieved. “But the Mayans say it’s the end of the world.”
“How would they know?”
“They had a calendar and everything and it doesn’t go after 2012.”
“I got your school calendar today in the mail, [...]

The weather has unmoored us all. The rain feels like snow in beta form. It’s dank and dim and mean and far too early for this. After I dropped off daughter at choir practice tonight I drove to the video store to return the DVDs wife & child had rented, then went to the post [...]

Turned on the Goofy Machine today. Reminded me that I have to bleed the pipes, or something, because the Goofy Machine should not be called that; a “boiler” or “furnace” is the usual term. But when the heat goes on the pipes make a sound I can only describe as GAWRSH. Loud, swooshy, like a [...]

Not saying this is iron-clad science or anything, but my child hurled four times in the night after getting the nasal flu spray. Make that flu vaccine spray. I hope. I don’t remember specifying. She missed the bus, of course, and I phoned in an absence. The recorded voice asked you to specify flu-like symptoms, [...]

For years I’ve been indifferent to musicals  – except for “West Side Story,” “American in Paris,” “Singin’ in the Rain” and the big 30s Warner Brothers Busby Berkeley productions. The other night I was watching “Zeigfeld Follies,” a 40s MGM feature, and I realized I was enjoying it on two levels: one, as an example [...]