Getting Ready for Christmas
Sorry for my spotty posting of late. A head cold has rendered me spacey . . . I sit down to blog and wind up playing flash games. For hours. Donna gets spacey, too, especially when she goes shopping. My Christmas shopping is done and I have zero desire to mingle with crowds again, but […]
Paul’s DVD Reviews: My Inner Ebert
There’s a new blog post category this morning: reviews. Never fear — they’re short. I’ll start with a few recently-watched movies: An American Crime (2007). Beautifully acted, and who doesn’t love Ellen Page? But now I better understand those who condemn movies about the underbelly of life. Yes, it’s a true story; no, this is […]
A Misleading Headline
“Death Map”: Where Americans Are Most Likely to Die You see a headline like that, you just can’t not read the article, right? I mean, if we’re less likely to die in Dubuque than in Tucson, hey, let’s all move there. Today! But you know there’s gotta be a gimmick. Too good to be true, […]
A Short Ride
I’ve been neglecting the motorcycle lately, which, if you believe machinery and the skills required to operate machinery work better if regularly used, is a bad thing. So I woke up this morning determined to ride, and even though it’s cloudy and wet, put on my gear and went for it. Okay, it was only […]
Another Eggcorn
I wrote about eggcorns a few days ago, and in one of those coincidences that make you think “huh?”, spotted one in the wild this morning. From a customer review of a true crime movie on Amazon: “If you think the film is gut retching, I dare you to actually review the case.” Gut retching! […]
Pearl Harbor
When I drove disabled veterans for the local VA hospital in Tucson, one of my first regular patients was an elderly man who made daily trips from the VA hospice to the university hospital for radiation oncology treatments. One day he pointed out several areas of skin cancer on his arms, neck, and face, then […]
Oh, Canada?
Did they just have a coup in Canada? It sure sounds like it: parliament was about to vote out the current prime minister, Stephen Harper, and put in someone else, and Harper . . . with the blessing of the colonial governor (i.e., someone who represents the Queen of England) . . . has shut […]