There I was, barreling down Highway 50 west in Sacramento, approaching the crazy downtown freeway interchange where I’m about to switch to Highway 99 south. This requires complete mental focus. You can’t be on the cell phone. You need both hands. You need flexible neck muscles for checking, double-checking, and triple checking that blind spot. [...]
bugs
Oh Yeah? How Long Has It Been Since YOU Took a Bath?
They Prefer To Be Called "Little Bugs"
Yes, we went to Hawaii last month, but that was for my Dad who walks real slow, is virtually blind from diabetes, and masticates for a minimum of a hundred minutes at each meal. And then has the audacity to complain (jokingly… sort of..) about how there wasn’t enough food. I left Hawaii after ten [...]
The Thing That Wouldn’t Die
This past weekend, the blogosphere was resplendent with horror stories. Creatures everywhere invaded our homes. Maggie Dammit had bats in her belfry.Sprite’s Keeper wrote a letter to the spider in her house.JD at I Do Things has a mouse in the house. Somewhere. Maybe under the refrigerator.Chat Blanc has a wasp. Today I present a [...]
There’s Never a Hero Around When you Need One
It was midnight in Los Angeles. Time to hit the hay. Man, was I sleepy. I was just about to descend the stairs when I realized I was eye-level with Franz Kafka’s main character in The Metamorphosis clinging to the stairwell ceiling. It was a monster, I tell you! My first thought was OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD HE’S [...]
