"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
“If I were God, I would have made the world just so and no different. And so I have you . . . I have you.” — Viggo Mortensen as The Man in The Road (2009). Yes, I’m still trying to catch up with my backlogged cache of rental DVD reviews. The good news is, […]
“When this is all over I’m going to found an association called ‘The Knights of the Idiotic Table’ and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You’re all members.” – Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson The third and final […]
The other day I blogged about an unpleasant encounter with an enraged, bicycle-hating motorist. That very night, I learned about the Morgan Stanley money manager who ran over a bicyclist and then fled the scene, leaving his victim for dead. You know, the Morgan Stanley money manager the local district attorney decided not to prosecute […]
There was an interesting thread on Facebook this morning. US Rider News, a motorcycle magazine, posted a link to a newspaper article about a veteran who didn’t want a veterans’ motorcycle group leading the local Veterans’ Day parade: “I don’t think that’s the image we want,” said Stephen Riggs of West Ashley, a former Army […]
We went for a bicycle ride this morning with other members of our Trail Trash riding group. Along the way I had an unpleasant encounter with a motorist. Did it really spoil the ride? No, but it was shocking to me to realize how much some folks hate bicyclists. We were riding south toward the […]
I thought today would be robocall-free, and said so on Facebook. An hour later one of my little Facebook friends reported getting one. So much for that theory. In three years of using one, I’ve received not one sales pitch, robocall, or charity solicitation on my cell phone. Not so my landline, which has become […]
I bought a Nook for my birthday. I deliberated long & hard between the Nook and the Kindle, finally going with the Nook because I’ll be able to borrow e-books from public libraries with it. But why buy an e-reader at all? Here’s why: I’ve literally run out of shelf space for new acquisitions. A […]