18 December 2006

Optimism or pessimism?

Some people say the glass is half-full, some say it's half-empty.

A cynic says, You call that a glass?

An engineer says the glass is twice as big is it needs to be.

13 December 2006

New musical style

I'm developing a new musical style:
Death Calypso.

12 December 2006

Minimalist blog

Someone said this is a minimalist blog.

Yeah.

Ce que vous croyez

It's always easier to believe a simple lie than a complicated truth.

09 December 2006

Administration, First Law Of

If you pay someone enough money, he will think what he is doing is important, all empirical evidence aside.

06 December 2006

Scorched-earth Christmas

I think the Iraqis are having a scorched-earth Christmas.

Of course, they're not the first. Nor will they be the last.

23 November 2006

Happy Thanksgiving

To all of my zero-and-counting readers, Happy Thanksgiving.

It's the true American Holiday.

06 November 2006

Bush on voting

"I don't believe it's over until everybody votes."
--President Bush
1.november.2006


By "everybody" I take it he means "the Supreme Court".

28 October 2006

Learning grammar

"I was gonna give it to you back, but I didn't. Next time i will gonna give it to you back."

-- my daughter, age 3

21 October 2006

Excerpt:

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
He wife could eat no lean
And so between the two of them
They licked the splattered spleen.

-- From Grand Guignol Nursery Rhymes

14 October 2006

Chicago: a definition

"Chicago is not the third-largest city in America, Chicago is the largest Midwestern city in the world."

-- John Probes

17 September 2006

A-Ha tribute band

I'm thinking of starting an A-Ha tribute band called Uh-Huh.

26 May 2006

Excerpt:

My name is Rubble
I want no trouble,
So bring me my dinner
And make it a double.

-- From The Ballad Of Barney Rubble

20 April 2006

"Daddy, can I wake up?"

-- my daughter

16 April 2006

Definition

"Negative space": a hole dug by someone who went to art school.

12 April 2006

Later, when I asked her what she was making (in a pot from a toy tea set), she said, "Soup."


What kind of soup? She looked at the ceiling, pondered, and said "Chocolate chip soup."

-- my daughter

14 March 2006

Bumper sticker

Honk If You Hate Honking

28 February 2006

Flango itself

If you think you're going to find out anything about Flango here, you may have a long wait ahead.

26 February 2006

"The Aerialist" by Richard Schmitt

Currently reading -- and being bowled over by -- "The Aerialist" by Richard Schmitt. Although it's not likely to be tagged as The Great American Novel, i keep encountering pages and pages of transcendent writing, stuff that completely floats me away from my exurban living room and balances me on top of a flexible wire, five-eighths of an inch thick, or elbows me into the middle of a smoky pie car on a circus train.

Definitely worth a read.

19 February 2006

Rockefeller stoat bucket

I just like the sound of it.

18 February 2006

Overheard on the playground

Kid A: You wanna play cops and robbers?
Kid B: Ok. You pretend you're at the doughnut station, getting doughnuts.

--10.oct.05

19 January 2006

03 January 2006

Garrison Keillor: a thought

The singing of Garrison Keillor can perhaps best be described as well-intentioned.

Names for rock bands

Bloodsmith
Meat Patrol