Emma, the Problematic Chihuahua

Wednesday
Well, Christmas has come and gone.  Now I just have to wait out the next week until all this holiday malaise begins to dissipate.  It seems that the only things people are capable of doing in December is to plan parties and go on  shopping excursions.  God forbid you want to get your gall bladder [...]

Did I Just Say Execrable?

I've a writing for hire gig I really should be attending to, but I'm a great procrastinator. I'll find a way to put off anything. And here I am, putting of a writing task … by writing.
Tonight I took in a free screening of a new Sigur Ros documentary. It was advertised [...]

Adventures Among the Irrationally Alphabetized

There's been some chatter in the news about Mars' near proximity to Earth. Last night the red planet was apparently orbiting around the sun right alongside us, neck and neck, and then we broke ahead. Word on the street has it that we will not be so close with Mars again until 2016. [...]

The Aroma of Post-Modern Pretentiousness

No doubt I could do my taxes on my own.  People do it all the time.  But because my mother has made her living, off and on over the years, as a book-keeper, I turn it over to her.  There is, of course, the apparent loser quotient of a single adult guy having his mom [...]

Stranded in the Middle of Miserable December

Yesterday there was a flash of sunlight in the early afternoon. I was just about to carry my laundry around to the washing machine on the back porch with the hope that I'd then be able to hang my clothes out on the line. But before I could tear myself away from the [...]