Props and Balls
Sir @ October 10, 2008 # 6 Comments
Esther Wilberforce Packard. I foresee many an hour wasted in these archives. The eHarmony saga from the Right Hand of God. Older, yet timeless in its truth. In January 2007, I went into a bar and tried out my new pickup line: “Pretty mama, I’m gonna assassinate that bush tonight.” The government tapped my phone [...]
More on page 42
Props: Now With More Nuts
Sir @ September 12, 2008 # 11 Comments
There is a pecan tree that dominates my back yard. In early Fall, pecans rain down upon my deck with the satisfying *bonk* of nut meeting wood (10-year old boys in the audience are howling with laughter right now). Sadly, I hold no love for pecans and therefore resign myself to watching my resident wildlife [...]
More on page 36
Props in the Hizzouse!
Sir @ August 8, 2008 # 10 Comments
A slim week, really. Not much reading involved, though large amounts of listening. I spent the vast majority of my awake time being oriented to my new surroundings. The OSHA people, always fun and full of glee, extracted our child-like whimsy and crushed it as we all watched. Some highlights: No kung fu fighting in [...]
More on page 30
Props in the Time of Cholera
Sir @ August 1, 2008 # 10 Comments
The elephant in the room (this post) is a duck. The duck-shaped elephant seen above sitting atop some well-chosen books and looking happy and eager to be on the verge of sucking down a martini showed up in my mailbox along with Gobstoppers and Whoppers (the malted candy, not the greasy flanks of flame-broiled cow). [...]
More on page 27
The Weekly Giving of Props
Sir @ July 25, 2008 # 16 Comments
Much has been made of the idea that the quickest or surest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. While any first-year medical student could tell you that, actually, the quickest way would be through the sternum, I tend to prefer the food-based method; less blood and sawing involved, generally. I’m still a [...]
More on page 25
The Weekly Prop Giving
Sir @ July 11, 2008 # 8 Comments
It would not be an exaggeration for me to say that over the course of a single week, I read a metric ton of whatnot, web-based and otherwise. From a blog standpoint, I’ve managed over the years to narrow the sites that I frequent down to those that are so well-written and profoundly moving that [...]
More on page 20