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Awareness
Covered in BEES!
Aug 18th
When you hear the phase “I’m covered in BEES!” you usually think of Eddie Izzard. And if you don’t, then really what are you doing with your life?
Eddie introduced us to the hilarious gnahhhhhhhh gnahhhhhhh sound of bees buzzing around his head. Urban Dictionary even has a listing for it:
Said by the masterful comedian Eddie Izzard, in his set “Glorious,” to describe what a beekeeper must occassionally say when he freaks out and realizes that he is in fact covered in bees. Great line to quote at random times when surrounded by a lot of people.
And I’ll even include a youtube More >
Snooze.
Jul 15th
Have I mentioned lately how uninspired I am, lately?
I look to my right and there is a stack of books just waiting for my red pen to edit them. Good books too. Books that you probably want to buy some day. Books that mock me relentlessly with their mockyness.
Do you fall asleep at your computer?
And then there are the books in progress. Add another stack of those, only the stack is on a hard drive mocking me with all its mockinglyness.
And it’s not that I’m truly uninspired – why just the other morning I woke up in the middle of More >
What is the value of your life?
Jun 27th
Wow...look at that forehead.
I am often embroiled in conversation with coworkers about the stress and life-sucking that goes on because of work and life distractions. I was also preoccupied with the number of grey hairs I have developed above my ears. It might have been that which concerned me more than the life-sucking, but regardless it prompted a question which I’ll get to in a moment.
In the last year or so I have gone from having 5-10 grey hairs above my ears to over 30. Ok, maybe 40-50. And let’s not even get started on the tell-tale signs of male pattern More >
Luxury SUV’s
May 17th
I hate SUVs. I can’t stand their bigness, their bulkiness, their boxyness, or their gas guzzliness.
Even worse, are the Luxury SUVs. The Lexi (btw, Lexus’ version is the LUX – Luxury Utility Vehicle – I’m renaming it to the SUX), the Porchi, the Audi, and the disasterous Hummer line (thank goodness these are going away) – all of those upscale, upper class, size of a tank vehicles that barrel down the road full of screaming children while the driver is on their luxury cell phone weaving back and forth in the fast lane going 55 mph and getting 5 mpg. More >
Music Makes a People Come Together
May 13th
Note: I originally published this in 2003, and it’s long, so grab a soda and sit for a while. I felt that during this critical time in our country, when separation is becoming the norm, instead of inclusion it might be time to remind everyone that Music Makes a People Come Together. Because look around…everywhere you turn it’s heartache, it’s everywhere that you go…
Also note: If you are able to accurately count the number of musical references contained herein, you might win a prize.
Ma ma se, Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa. Some of the most expressive words ever More >
