I’ve gotten quite a few comments on my button. You can see the looks flit across people’s faces. First, there’s the recognition that “Oh, it’s a political button.” Some folks end there and pass along. If they stick around, the second thing is “Oh, it’s for Obama.” Usually at this stage there’s either a flicker …
Monthly Archives: October 2008
More of the story
So, in my vigilant hunt for the truth, I’ve diligently checked the A-T website every other day in hopes of finding out more about the mother-injuring 8-year-old driver. The good people in the news room do not disappoint. Here’s the latest poop: The vehicle was somehow put into reverse I can only muster: What’d ya …
Where’s the rest of the story?
Shortly after we moved to Toccoa, GA, I was brought up short by a note in the police blotter that a “Certain Man” had been arrested for threatening another man with a dead pig. The image that brought to my mind raised many more questions than were ever released to the public. Today in Tiffin, …
I mean that literally
Thanks to Wade and to Len at Jawbone Radio for alerting me to these fantastic forays into lyrical description. Take On Me: Literal Version Head Over Heels: Literal Version
Schoolhouse Gothic is on its way!
Check out the lefthand sidebar. Sherry’s book has a release date and an Amazon page! How much more official can you get? Doesn’t look like it’ll be available for you Christmas needs, but you know you’ve always wanted to start an Epiphany tradition in your home. Seriously, we’re very excited. Charles L. Crow, Professor Emeritus …
Some thoughts on October baseball
With the Indians not even in sniffing distance of the playoffs and baseball choosing to slap non-cable viewing fans in the face by giving exclusive Division Series coverage to WTBS, I haven’t really paid much attention to the Boys of Summer since, well, summer ended. But as the dust clears from the first round of …
T-16 Yellow Rose of Amarillo Pale Ale
As I pondered a hot Midwestern summer, I thought it’d be fun to make a light, refreshing pale ale that I could take to cookouts and what not that people would actually drink. I’d also been hearing some raves about Amarillo hops, and, with the hop shortage on, I was surprised to score some at …
Score “1″ for the English Major
Special thanks to Grammar Girl for pointing out the diagrammatic sentence stylings of Kitty Burns Florey as she analyzes the sentence structure of Sarah Palin. After one particularly gnarled sentence, Florey comments To me, it’s not English—it’s a collection of words strung together to elicit a reaction, floating ands and prepositional phrases (“with that vote …
