Life is unremitting hard labor, but then comes a simple handful of blueberries, ripe and delicious, making everything worthwhile for the moment.
Drink arrogant bastard ale, it makes your face go numb!
I have very few material items which I’d protect with deadly force, but you can have my fancy stainless steel barbecue grill that’s directly connected to the 3/4-inch gas main when you pry it from my singed and blackened fingers.
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Sir @ September 6, 2010 # One Comment
The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt once said, ‘In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. Also, we’re all completely batshit crazy for paprika.’
Of all the recipes upon which my loving gaze has fallen over the years, none have caused [...]
Sir @ August 23, 2010 # 8 Comments
A couple weeks ago, I experienced what could be considered a breakthrough in the lab. I’d found the solution to a persistent problem that had, to that point, kept me from answering larger and deeper questions. This led to the proving or disproving a few established hypotheses and scientific progress was suddenly marching [...]
Sir @ August 2, 2010 # 8 Comments
One of the things that makes me so endearing to dogs and the insane is the fact that I not only get the NY Times delivered to my home, but in a fit of quirky OCD, I feel the need to read pretty much everything in every paper. The front section (section A for [...]
Sir @ July 29, 2010 # 3 Comments
I normally avoid shopping malls with a zeal unmatched by your garden variety zealot. Malls reek of debt and fashion, two things that leave me feeling annoyed and itchy. Nevertheless, I recently found myself with some time to kill and decided to murder it by heading to a place that I’ve mentioned previously [...]
Sir @ July 22, 2010 # 7 Comments
In the tenth circle of hell that is Branson, Missouri, there exists any number of things that attack the senses and flush good taste down the toilet. Imagine a place that caters to retirement-aged folks with a taste for sparkly shirts festooned with eagles carrying American flags and musical shows sporting people pretending to [...]
Sir @ July 14, 2010 # 7 Comments
If you must know, I’ve been shut away in my basement working on a book titled Sodomy and the Lash: An Unauthorized History of the British Navy. It’s an epic story full of lies. And sodomy. I think there’s a market for it.
Actually, part of May and all [...]
Sir @ June 10, 2010 # 6 Comments
How can something that looks like diarrhea taste and smell so divine? I’m sure that I’m neither the first nor the last person to question Indian food thusly. Indian food is amazing for many reasons (camouflage notwithstanding), not least of which is the fact that it singlehandedly makes eating in Britain both more [...]
Sir @ May 29, 2010 # 4 Comments
There was a guy that I roomed with for awhile at VMI. The second semester of our first year we ended up in the same room together with a ‘jock’ and an evangelical as foils to our prior-service background, meaning we’d each been enlisted for awhile. That first year at VMI is both [...]
Sir @ May 20, 2010 # 5 Comments
Science writing sucks, kids. It sucks so hard. It generates hypotheses that lead to potential cures for stuff and furthers the neverending quest for knowledge and understanding, sure, but it still blows goats. During weeks of days spent writing words, then agonizing over the words you’d written, then hunting down references in [...]
Sir @ May 14, 2010 # 8 Comments
After a cat-heavy week at The Collective, Eli and Sophie demanded some balance in the equation. They’re very sensitive to unbalanced equations. They also excel at Scrabble.
Sophie.
Eli.
The Dynamic Duo showing ninja-like discipline in not attacking their treats.