Oh Great, Now I’m Writing Commercials
We plan to buy another American car before long. It may well be the last one we’ll ever buy. For that reason, it has to be a good one.
Resting From My Labors
Thinking about Labor Day, which we observed yesterday with company, dinner, and a movie. Company was our friend Mary Anne and her dog Anthony; dinner was hickory-smoked ribs, potato salad, grilled veggies, and corn on the cob (plus deviled eggs and mango gelato from Mary Anne); the movie back-to-back episodes of Justified on Hulu. Here […]
Air-Minded: Tailhooks & Wing Landings (Updated 9/4/21)
A couple of recent stories in the news caught my eye and brought back memories.
Thursday Takes
Donna’s always coming up with ingenious ways to fix things and make them better. In another life, she’d have been an engineer. Wait. She’s an engineer in this life, minus the degree.
Boomer Yells at Clouds
How hard can it be to write a damn headline? Why does the person who wrote that shit have a cushy job at a major newspaper and not me? Am I being too picky?
Paul’s Book Reviews
Six short book reviews: fiction, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, young adult
Getting Out
Can there be anything more courageous and self-sacrificing right now than guarding the perimeter of the airport in Kabul?
Strapology (Plus the Return of YCRT!)
By the way, that disparaging stereotype about fighter pilots — big Seiko, little dick? — please don’t ask Donna. She’s likely to blurt out the truth.