[Paint your palette blue and grey]Happy birthday to Vincent van Gogh. “Vincent,” by Don McLean (and later, NOFX) Starry, starry night.Paint your palette blue and grey,Look out on a summer’s day,With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.Shadows on the hills,Sketch the trees and the daffodils,Catch the breeze and the winter chills,In colors on the snowy linen land. Now I understand what you tried to say to me,How you suffered for your sanity,How you…
[Dropping like flies]Johnnie Cochran’s out, Jerry Falwell’s on his way, and the Pope has been half-dead for years. And Kristin deleted her blog! In other news, Mississippi continues its regression back to the Middle Ages. Did you know that in 2001 they passed a law requiring the phrase “In God we trust” to be posted in every public school classroom? Well, now the Senate has deemed it completely OK for Christian texts and symbols to…
[It gets hard to explain]I spent my off days in Saltillo with the family, munching on birthday cake and charred hamburgers. Today I hid eggs for Casey and Patrick. That’s always fun. Man, I used to want to hunt eggs all year. I remember making my parents get the eggs and baskets out of the attic in January or something, and then hiding them in the house over and over again until all the hiding…
[You can’t get him back this way, Tom](From the L.A. Times) CANYON LAKE, Texas — A family tragedy unfolding in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal — without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the raging debate outside Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice. The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family standing vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center…
[What can brown do for you?]Happy birthday to Phil and Amber. How you two ended up with the same birthday, I’ll never understand. Phil’s at the new job right now. I think he gets off at noon. I really hope he likes it. I guess I’ll sit here and wait on the UPS truck until I have to go to work. Somewhere in middle America, there’s a four-track looking for its new home.
[Let the good times roll]Phil has been searching hard these past couple of weeks for a new job, and he just heard from this dog and cat vet/kennel that he got their open position. He’ll be walking dogs and cleaning up poop and feeding them and holding them while they get shots, etc. He works 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day (with a two-hour lunch) and 7-noon Saturdays and some Sundays, meaning lots of…
[Only in Memphis]From the Memphis Flyer:MODEL SEARCHDPG seeks big butt & thick females. Must be 18 or older. Call between 8-5 Mon-Fri. No weekend calls. Ask for Nicole 795-7013 Should I go for it?
[Sorry, I don’t do sloppy seconds]So the American version of The Office premiers tonight at 8:30 central on NBC and I’ve got Phil on assignment to watch it and give me a play-by-play when I get home. Oh, Tivo, why dost thou cost so much? I’m hoping for it to be a success in its own right, because I really don’t entertain any notions of it duplicating the utter brilliance of the British version. American…
[And all the sweet serenity of books]I suddenly have a serious urge to go to some bourgeois bookstore like Books-a-Million or Barnes and Noble and just smell the coffee and leaf through volume after volume, admiring the bright, smooth covers and flexing the rigid spines. I think we’re in a good time right now for book cover design, and just looking at and smelling lots of books would make me really happy right now. +++Here‘s…
[Free Fiona]Sony’s not releasing Fiona Apple’s newest album because it’s not what they see as marketable or something. You can read all about that here. Anyway, there’s a big online campaign to spread the songs around, so I thought I’d do my part and direct you to them. You can listen to the album here.
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