12 July 2010

Classical music

I'm working on a piece called "Trio Sonata for Bagpipes, Banjo and Accordion".

12 June 2010

Proposal for a new holiday

National Sleep-It-Off-At-Work Day

26 January 2010

From the mouths of babes

"Don't tell me what to do! That's Mommy's job!"

-- my daughter

01 December 2009

New holiday song

I'm working on a new holiday song called, "I'll Be Drunk For Christmas".

30 August 2009

What i learned from the health care debate

It's easier to be against everything than for something.

02 January 2009

Overheard on the playground

"It's my turn to be the zombie."

Overstating the case

Adult: "Pick up your room."
Child: "You're treating me like a slave, but I'm not a slave! I'm free!"

14 November 2008

Dilemma, horns of

When life hands you a dilemma, make a dilemma-nade.

14 October 2008

Overheard at work

"Well, at least we got to talk this over mano a mano."

13 October 2008

Checklist for a rainy day

Check the news.
Play the blues.
Pour the ooze
Outta yo shoes, Jack.

05 September 2008

Work richer, not smarter

Americans may admire people who are richer than they are, but they sure as hell resent people who are smarter than they are.

29 August 2008

Just Asking

How many beers does it take to paint a house?

02 May 2008

Sitcom idea

I'm working on the pilot of a sitcom about a single father in Indianapolis.

It's called Hoosier Daddy.

21 February 2008

A personal remark

He was filled with the sour milk of human kindness.

20 February 2008

Excerpt:

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy that looks after the sheep?
Up in the hayloft with Little Bo Peep.

-- from Slightly Salacious Mother Goose

15 February 2008

NIU shooting

I think one of the things that makes me saddest is that this was not unthinkable. The smooth way the university responded is a result of their having prepared for and practiced for just such an event.

13 January 2008

Generalities

"All generalities are stupid."

--Michael B. Kaye
4.august.1978

20 December 2007

Learning grammar

"What do we don't have?"

-- my daughter, age 4

20 January 2007

A picture of money

I saw a man wearing a t-shirt with an oversized drawing of a roll of hundred dollar bills.

He had exchanged real money for a picture of money.

02 January 2007

Bush on sacrifice

"I’m not going to make predictions about what 2007 will look like in Iraq except that it’s going to require difficult choices and additional sacrifices because the enemy is merciless and violent."
--President Bush
21.december.2006


By "additional sacrifices" I take it he means "further tax cuts".