From the monthly archives: February 2010
UPDATE on that non-MSG almost-no-health-risk sign I posted at the Stribblog the other day. Ready?
Now we know what it is: MASTER FLAVOR FOOD. I swear, English and Chinese are like apples and bricks sometimes.
I feel a bit guilty taking a hiatus here, because it’s not as if I WORK [...]
Just this, nothing more. But oh, for the days when cheerful electrical servants proudly hoisted an atom. Progressively!
You learn things from putting a child to bed. You learn a lot about robbers and boogiemen. For creatures who sneak around in the crepuscular shadows, they are remarkably sensitive to subtle gradations of illumination. We have dimmers everywhere, so I have learned to calibrate the light just so. Doors are a simpler proposition – [...]
Hmm. So. Dentist today; no big deal. I have a great dentist I trust completely, and besides, he reads this site, so if I complain he brings out the wrench and finds a good nerve. I do have another substantial procedure coming up, but that’s what happy pills and clown sauce are for, right? That’s [...]
I went shopping for some clothes on Saturday, since my job now requires an actual wardrobe. Wanted a nice light sport coat – so named because no sport is involved, I presume – for spring, and this took me to H&M. I think it stands for “Horrid and Meretricious,” at least when it comes to [...]
The Fire. And more
On February 19, 2010 · 72 Comments · In Black & White World, Comic Sins, Domestic Life, Media, Mpls: history
A wall to wall day, Thursday. Read headlines, wrote a piece, finished a column, did an interview with two reporters who just got back from Haiti, then – as I was gearing up to fine-tune the column and put it in The System, NEWS HAPPENED. I heard some chatter at the desk called Patina; I [...]
The clouds parted today, so things are a little brighter, he said, obscurely. I just need a hiatus, I think, and I have one pencilled in for the future. The only way to keep things from overwhelming you is to step back and watch some things dissolve of their own accord. Or dissolve because you [...]
NOTE: Scroll down for Thursday content! I, er, messed up and posted these in the wrong order.
I do not think it was the sequel to “Sunrise” – it was released in 1924. But: “Sunrise,” in 1927, was subtitled “A song of two humans.” IMDB says no copies are known to exist.
The ad survived, [...]
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