BIGGER THINGS

Only Slightly Shorter Than The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, But at Least You Don’t Have to Memorize It.

March 29, 2011

{Delay in posting brought to you by Seeing My Father for the First Time in Four Years, Under Circumstances Appropriate for Depressing and Overwrought Short Fiction—no, no I’m NOT kidding, and like most every other event of the past three months, this is a matter deserving of a whole entry of its own, and I [...]

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I Fed a Man a Peanut…Just to Watch Him Die.

February 1, 2011

One of January’s little amusements was a sudden and unexplained increase in bandwidth that crashed my site several times over the course of the month. God knows it wasn’t from traffic, as it’s a miracle anyone still comes around here anymore—you people have the patience of saints—and according to my hosting company the culprit appears [...]

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Janus in Fragments.

January 22, 2011

Sunday the 16th After some unbloggable unpleasantness last week, I thought at least I knew what January had in store for me this year, but no! Simone, not content to confine herself to one illness at a time, has both CROUP! and pneumonia. This is not the you-won’t-even-know-I’m-here pneumonia a person just walks around with, [...]

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It’s Always Feast or Famine Around Here, Isn’t It?

January 2, 2011

I hear that Mercury has been Retrograde—or it was, anyway, from December 10th, a few days before I last posted, until last Friday-ish—and that this Retrograde-ness is simply DREADFUL for communication, or technology, or communicating with technology, or whatnot. Can I blame Mercury for my lack of posting even if I don’t believe in astrology? [...]

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If You Squint, It’s Perfect.

December 13, 2010

Saturday, I did not cross one single thing off my To Do List (or should I say LISTS, “Consolidate Lists” being an item on one of them), a state of affairs that usually throws me into a—well, I can only call it a panicked torpor, though I know that sounds entirely nonsensical. Anyhow, the point [...]

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Sonata For Wee Viola.

December 9, 2010

{This post is highly, HIGHLY annoying, and I strongly suggest you read what I wrote about the recent crop of catalog models instead. —Management} If you follow me on Twitter, it will not surprise you that Part Deux of my previous entry is on hold: Scott lost his job. If you are feeling an overwhelming [...]

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It’s Mostly Lint (Part One).

December 7, 2010

It must get tiresome, reading all of those “in my day, we had to blog UPHILL BOTH WAYS” entries. Posts about how blogging has changed aren’t exactly easy to write, though, either—they always seem to leave someone feeling prickly and defensive, to give the impression that you are criticizing others under the pretext of analyzing [...]

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Kinderwerkstatt!

December 2, 2010

Never was I more tempted to take a hiatus from last month’s hiatus as the day of parent/teacher conferences, when I saw a few choice pictures of Simone taken in her natural habitat. I have been waiting for this day, the day I am finally able to share them with you. They weren’t the first [...]

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