Rant Around the Clock

So, I’m watching Rock Around the Clock, a fictitious movie about Bill Haley and the Comets starring Bill Haley and the Comets (it’s the part they were born to play), and I’m looking at the weird greased up hair and clothes and mannerisms and it makes me kind of nostalgic for the fifties; then, I […]

Mama, Will We Ever Make it Home? Tips for the D.C. Metro System

Always let at least half of the people who need to de-train out of the train before pushing your way in like some brain-dead, type-a salmon. If there is a problem the will delay your commute for an hour or so, the Metro makes announcements which are garbled incomprehensible walls of sound over their PA […]

I Wish I Could Believe You

Every morning that I go to the bus stop, I encounter a robin who pretends to be easy prey to lure me from its nest. Every morning, I walk the same route with the robin just ahead of me making a fool out of itself. I feel as though it’s insulting my intelligence; and, my […]

June 26, This Day in HISTORY!!!

On June 26th 1948, Shirley Jackson published her short story, The Lottery, in the New Yorker magazine. What are the odds of that?! Much of the public furrowed their Neanderthal brows, shambled to their typewriters and wrote angry letters… mostly about not knowing what the HELL the story was about. It is an indictment […]

The Grapes of Wrandom Thoughts

Turns out the Poison Help Line doesn’t provide suggestions as to what kind of poison to use… just what to do if you eat some. Seems unnecessarily specific… I used to aspire to be a quadriplegic, then I realized that the word I was really looking for was “billionaire”. If the Star Wars universe was […]