Absinthe must be good for you. Look how healthy that boy looks! A few years ago I took a video of absinthe being prepared at a local bar. I might even have posted about it here. I don’t care. Enjoy … Continue reading
The Chicago Women’s Pipe Smoking Club in 1954.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, … Continue reading
There is no dadder dad than Derrick, DJ’s dad. Via 22 Words.
…right now. “Son, there were no dinos in World War 2.” “Oh. Were there dinos in World War 1?” “No.” “Oh. Well, sometimes I use dinosaurs in World War 2.”
There are two billboards that I drive by regularly which have achieved their goal of raising (at least my) awareness of colon cancer and the need to screen. I’d be curious to see studies into the success of these campaigns, … Continue reading
Please find here the text of Peter’s post-Pentecost sermon, a.k.a. The Sermon. One of the best things about The Sermon is that it is a response to mockers; to those who in another age would be known as player haters. … Continue reading
Listen, these are not drunken as you suppose.
The Professor may appear sinister as a pipe smoker, but it’s just a trick of the light. The pipe shows that he is a thoughtful man of action. And from the size of the bowl, that he like a lot … Continue reading
How sweet is this? The other day I was walking through a state park and a butterfly landed on my head and wouldn’t leave. After having family take pictures I shooed it off my head and walked on, but the … Continue reading
How You Play The Game? Oh how we love to tell our children that “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” Last year I wrote a post on the limitations of Mr. Grantland’s dictum, … Continue reading
“If the labor doesn’t end in joy surpassing its conclusion it is nothing. Better if nothing had happened at all. That’s the desperate essential gamble – dare joy from under its rock.” (from Wendell Berry, “The Garden”) For if the … Continue reading
Last week when the wife was hanging out with a friend, the topic of French people came up. The friend was frustrated because she had been treated rudely and condescendingly by a French person. So this sophisticated and cultured woman … Continue reading
My already significant eyebrows have begun to bush and flare as I approach middle age. I hope, although my wife might not, that I get sweet eyebrows like these when I’m an old man.
