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If I had time for retweet theater, I’d use this: ”Breathes there a man who, against his better judgment and prior experience, has not attempted to adjust a lawn sprinkler while it’s running?” (exactly 140 characters, too!) Yet we try, over and over again, thinking we will outrun the sprinkler, or avoid a spritz in the [...]
Our paper is looking down the barrel of a strike.
What’s the secret of comedy, as the old joke goes? Timing. The funny part comes when you say “timing” before the other person gets a chance to answer the question, thereby you have no concept of the secret of comedy at all. Yet the horrible timing [...]
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This day completely got away from me,, running down the alley, laughing and kicking trash cans. It began with the usual dash to the office to the usual 80s tunes on the usual 80s channel. ZZ Top again. A song about an unusual woman who has legs, and unlike the rest of us who drag [...]
If this morning seems a tough job after the mercifully elongated weekend, consider: three days to Friday.
Been a while since I bored you dead with all the deets, so: Friday I was outside laboring on the Oak Island Water Feature when the phone rang. I missed the call. I wouldn’t have taken it anyway. Once [...]
Had a picture-taking afternoon with Natalie for her class project. Some shots of the neighborhood follow. The old streetcar, still in service:
Ol’ PCC #322. Served the Twin Cities from ‘46 to the early 50s, then did a stint as a subway car in the Newark system, then lived out its days in Cleveland before it [...]
