From the monthly archives: October 2010
It may sound like hell, but trust me: getting up at 5:17 AM for a day of flying is a-ok if you’ve been in a good place, and you’re heading home for Halloween. It’s almost midnight, and I’ve no idea why I am awake. Really. Since the flight left at 8:45, the Mouse insisted we [...]
It would not be Halloween around Jasperwood without a mention of Him Who Certainly Can Be Named: Spookie Ookie.
He had two appearances on Rolie Polie Olie – once as a scary creature who scared kids in Polieville, and once as a dream-demon who made Zowie into the Queen of the Pumpykins, [...]
Wow. October decided to drop the mask and clear the slate today. For a few days the temps have been declining at a civil pace, as if by some civilized agreement; yesterday the weather was fussy and irritable. Today the rain came and the winds rose, and for most of the day [...]
At the mall the other day I spotted this window display. Darth has had torso-reduction surgery, I think.
A damp and fussy day; filed ten tons of copy, wrote a Joe, got half the Halloween Diner in the can. (Oh yes: it’s a big one.) Checked the news, found one of those [...]
I just couldn’t do it. The day was lovely when I woke, even though rain threatened; it was warmer than usual, and after a fine breakfast I got down to some minor brain-free work on the computer, sorting and tagging, writing, backing up. Noon came, and it was time for The Errands – the rote [...]
My wife had Bunco tonight, so it was me and child, and . . . that’s it; no Chuck E. Cheese, as was the case in years past. I asked her tonight why she didn’t want to go there anymore, even though they had video games and pizza, and she said it just seemed like [...]
The dreaded photo blog again, because it’s a column night, and I’m skint on ideas. I need some sort of restorative event to fill the tank again. A broad swath of time away from everything. But! Absent that, this.
The view outside the building today:
Here’s something I’m putting into the [...]
I am not in the Halloween mood, a statement that leads to the following observation:
It is ridiculous to assert that any adult should be in the Halloween Mood at this point
Halloween is just Too Damn Much Halloween
The long orange smear of Halloween, spread over the entirety of October, diminishes the pleasures of [...]
Mad Men is done. If you’re curious, my review, and various meandering thoughts, are over here at pajamasmedia. so I’m out of TV. Gave up on “The Event,” because it came down with a raging case of the Stupids early on, and nothing seemed particularly compelling. Aliens? Humanoid aliens, here on earth? [...]
The switch flipped again around 1 PM. What had been sunny and warm grew overcast in a minute; a wind came up and the temps went down. Rain came later. All the leaves fell off. Snow by five. Then an asteroid hit.
Well, no. But it went from being nicer than you’d expect to being [...]
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