Another lousy anniversary
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Feb 4th, 2026
Today marks a full year since my Mom died. I miss her. That is all.
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Why is this news
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Feb 3rd, 2026
I have asked myself this question many times in the past thirty years or so. It began with a white Ford Bronco, trundling along the freeway at a stately pace flanked by a fleet of police cars, lights flashing and sparkling, a bizarre and grim parade spectacle. And a spectacle it remained from get to […]
Minivan names off the top of my head
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Jan 23rd, 2026
I trust you’ll trust that I am not looking anything up. These are literally just the minivan names I can remember for no good reason. I don’t know why I felt the need to reel off a list of minivans but I feel better for having purged than out of my brain.
Supersober
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Aug 14th, 2025
I was thinking of the time, back in my D&D playing days, when our party was exploring an abandoned fort and some of them found some high zoot booze and proceeded to get shit-waller-wasted. The party cleric was like, “oh, I think the fuck not,” and whipped up a detox potion he slipped into the […]
Handling your own business
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Mar 18th, 2025
One of the many things my Mom taught me was how to handle myself around men I didn’t trust. Which is to say, stay on your toes, keep your eyes open, keep your elbows up, and be ready to raise hell. When I was in high school, I came to grief by a boy in […]
DIYing the Mother/Daughter bond
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Feb 18th, 2025
I know the “theory” of love languages is bunkum, but there is definitely a value to accepting that different people express affection or connection differently. And for my Mom and I, our moments of bonding and closeness seemed often to occur while elbows deep in a messy DIY project. One of my cherished childhood memories […]
And you may call me Shitmaster
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Jan 11th, 2017
This beautiful afternoon, while it was about 65F and sunny, while one child was zooming around the yard on his Strider and the other was literally wallowing in the mud that constitutes our sandbox, I did a Minesweep of the back yard and cleared out all the dog-doody the last snow had concealed. And it […]
You guys! A fungus exists called the Stinky Squid
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 16th, 2014
You guys! A fungus exists called the Stinky Squid And they totally look squidly, and apparently smell of poo. A horrible side of me wants to cultivate a bed of them somewhere just for the total grossout effect.
Thinking about animated GIFS
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 7th, 2014
and how back in the day, they were kind of a shameful, naff affectation. Â The little “website under construction” GIF with the man and shovel, the e-mail GIF, with the little mailbox that flapped open and closed, the dancing baby, and the dancing hamsters. Â Everyone did it and everyone reviled each other for having done […]
I take Fancy Dress quite seriously!
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 6th, 2014
I’d already been planning to make my son an amanita mushroom costume for this Halloween. Â Using a footie sleeper pattern for the main body of it, that’ll be done up in a light tan fleece, with an oversized, slightly padded beret in red with white spots appliqued on (and mittens also in red, so his […]