So these are my biases: I don’t smoke. The small ampules of nicotine that cigarettes provided never matched what good pipe tobacco could. And pipe smoking required too much effort and appeared too anachronistic as to be seriously done outside one’s dark Brazilian cherry study.
But what the smoking ban has done and is doing to [...]
We woke up early this morning. We went to bed late; the dogs work us up last night, scratching and whining at our bedroom door, spooked by the late night fireworks and for a brief moment, so incredibly bright and sharp in my mind, I thought something bad happened: not some pop explosions of light [...]
That on New Year’s Eve, I not work until 7pm and end up watching Doctor Who episodes until Midnight.
I hope you all are doing well and enjoying a lazy Christmas Morning. Once again, my1 wife suprised me with her ability to listen and get the perfect gift but this year was special. All morning she had been handing me nice little giift packs like a nice small hand-crank emergency radio and clothes and slippers and [...]
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Update Dec.21st, 2008 9:45am I feel I need to provide a mea culpe for this piece. It is an exercise in learning how to footnote footnotes and how to write complex, grammatically correct sentences and probably wasn’t ever really [...]
These past few days have demonstrated that the coast has shutdown for the winter and are the final kick in the groin to what has been a demoralizing time for anyone who reads the papers or pays attention to what is happening to friends and neighbors.1
I don’t see it getting better for anyone anytime now [...]
A few days ago I looked out the window into the world just a few feet past my window that was swallowed up by the dense fog, and I couldn’t distinguish the sky from the ground and thought this must be what an Arctic whiteout must look like—only bleaker and with less colour.
Would you have gone through it all, done it all over again, every last little thing that has happened in the past eight years if you knew Obama would be President?
I finally had an excuse to go to “Troll Radio Review.”
The show started with a hammy McCain/Obama skit where the troll wanted everybody to vote for McCain; there was a decidedly leftward bent to the adults present: lots of obviously all-natural fiber clothing, Obama buttons and unisex couples. Without apologia, this was a socialist indoctrination [...]
“Why I’m here…”1
By the corner of 14th and Commerce, he’s just stepped out of the Rockefeller Hotel. He stops and sits on the bench and continues smoking a bit of Bob. He looks up at the sunlight hitting the building across the street, watches it play off the music instruments in the windows and smiles [...]
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