I transferred my allegiance to Da Bears after Mary Shittenheimer coached my Chargers out of the playoffs, and I stoically endured Rex Grossman's Kafka-esque impersonation of an NFL quarterback along with my spiritual brethren in the Windy City.
The silver lining for Prince fans was the diminutive lunatic delivering the greatest halftime show in the history of the event.
Cold comfort, I know.
Perhaps the knowledge that my Chargers still suffer the Curse of Shittenheimer will improve your disposition.
We will doubtless march through the regular season like Sherman through Georgia, then vanish into the countryside like Saddam's Republican Guard once the playoffs begin.
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note to DT:
I wrote Winky City in the first draft. =(
Monday, February 5, 2007
nephew talk
Quoth my 6 year old nephew Alec during our babysit-a-thon the other evening:
(best if imagined in his voice which is high & sweet, like a small bird)
he also had a fine time showing me all of the "scary things" in his room, including a ghost hanging from a hook, a drawer full of skulls & skull-related items (pens, rings, etc), some ghoul masks and a remote controlled brain "with a monsterous mouth, and fangs".
Good stuff.
(best if imagined in his voice which is high & sweet, like a small bird)
I feel better now, but I was I was I was very sick. The other the other morning I drank a sippy cup of water, and I felt like I was going to going to going to throw up. So I got up and went to the toilet, and then I threw up this nauseating green fluid. It was quite disgusting!
he also had a fine time showing me all of the "scary things" in his room, including a ghost hanging from a hook, a drawer full of skulls & skull-related items (pens, rings, etc), some ghoul masks and a remote controlled brain "with a monsterous mouth, and fangs".
Good stuff.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
reading list
While babysitting for Erin's cousin last night I idly filipped through a copy of Odysseus in America by Johnathan Shay. By the time the wife and kids finished watching Toy Story I was 100 pages in and obvlivious to the world around me.
It's about dealing with PTSD in the context of the Vietnam veterans the author works with through the VA and how it complicates the lives of returning combat troops. But the topic is timeless and he ties the difficult homecoming of combat troops from various eras of conflict to the long delayed homecoming of Odysseus in The Odyssey.
The guy knows his topic inside out, he knows the Odyssey inside out, and he writes like a dream.
Recommended to all, and I'll be picking up a copy of his previous book (Achilles in Vietnam) ASAP.
It's about dealing with PTSD in the context of the Vietnam veterans the author works with through the VA and how it complicates the lives of returning combat troops. But the topic is timeless and he ties the difficult homecoming of combat troops from various eras of conflict to the long delayed homecoming of Odysseus in The Odyssey.
The guy knows his topic inside out, he knows the Odyssey inside out, and he writes like a dream.
Recommended to all, and I'll be picking up a copy of his previous book (Achilles in Vietnam) ASAP.
more customer chatter
coming in fast and thick this morning.
An older woman on the phone, when asked if her requested title is a biography:
"well, it's an autobiography...an autobiography, but he didn't write it himself."
An older woman on the phone, when asked if her requested title is a biography:
"well, it's an autobiography...an autobiography, but he didn't write it himself."
customer chatter
alterni-gal in a faux-cheetah lined hoodie to her tattooed beaux:
"oooooooo, it's cold in here and it smells like old people!"
"oooooooo, it's cold in here and it smells like old people!"
Saturday, February 3, 2007
lookout! a terrorist!
this is teh funniest bomb scare of all time...well, unless you live in Boston and your commute got jacked up because the geniuses in charge of public safety can't tell a cartoon character from a jihadist.
Made even funnier by the same ad campaign having been run in other cities including NYC with no mass public panic. The stiff-necked refusal of the people in charge of overreacting to admit they screwed up is impressive in its own right.
And I love the press conference with the nerds responsible. The only cats in the whole process who treat the situation with all the gravity and seriousness it deserves.
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