Found an old photo from when Mary stopped by on her way back to New Jersey!
I need new glasses. Maybe I'll get black frames again.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Sunday, June 25, 2017
The Ranch on Netflix is Terrible
I bailed on The Ranch in less than ten minutes. From here on out, any TV show so bad that it can't make me watch the pilot for ten minutes shall now be referred to as "Worse than The Ranch." Ten minutes is The Ranch Test now.
Nine minutes and 47 seconds I'll never get back. With this cast, The Ranch had a decent shot at making something new. You've got Sam Elliot and Debra Winger, and it felt right to make it feel like a re-cooked send-up...
Friday, June 16, 2017
1313 Days Left
"This is a man who was coddled and spoiled as a child. Then, as an adult, he surrounded himself with people who fed his ego and told him how amazing he was at everything he did. This created a person whose view on the world is so completely warped that he lacks the ability to understand that he’s not a very bright person. But he’s so incredibly ignorant that he truly believes he 'comprehends better than almost anybody,' that he has a 'very good...
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Secret burgers
Russell House Tavern - Harvard Square, CambridgeWe met up with Les and "the Sarge" last night.Did you know that Russell House makes a "secret burger" that you can ask for?It's not on the menu.Les told us. Joe got it.I can't tell you about it. It's a secret....
Monday, June 12, 2017
The Art of Telling a Joke
Recently I was asked to punch up a job post for a high tech company. The
CEO said he was trying to entice quality applicants, but he'd been
informed that the tone of his job post made a fun workplace sound like a
total drag. It did. We fixed it, and we did it with humor.
Does Humor Belong In Business Writing?
There's a ton of
advice online sternly advising against using any humor at all, ever, in
business writing, whether it's a job...
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Losing Our Heroes: Adam West, 1928 - 2017
Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb.
Adam West was my Batman. His was the Batman that I knew first, so he's the one whose visage my mind's eye still summons whenever I hear someone say "Batman." In those days, Batman as a franchise was campy. It was a comic book lifted right from the cartoon pages and performed by people doing very silly things in a very serious manner. Decades before the franchise turned dark, Batman was good...
Use a pincushion, or be the pincushion
Where is the needle that was here?
Cue danger music.
I'm an idiot. I know I should always stick it into a pincushion.
Now I have to go find shoes and go on a needle hunt.
*******
Update:
I found it.
"I'M OKAY! I'm okay." ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Throwback Thursday - 1988
Somewhere in Rhode IslandBrenda got a group of us together to rent a condo for a long weekend. This was right after graduation.Everyone else dropped out except for three of us, so me and Brenda and Hub went and had a blast....
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Monday, June 5, 2017
Saturday, June 3, 2017
"HEY, NOVEMBER RAIN !"
This one time, Joe and I were on a road trip and we stopped at a dumpy little town diner. We walked in the door and heard, from somewhere in the place, "HEY, NOVEMBER RAIN!" Probably there's still some locals in a small Vermont town that tell about the time they saw Axl Rose havin' a Western Omelette.
Axl (L) and Joe (R)
Joe, at 24, Axl'ing up the place pretty good....
