How About Them Holidays? Yep, drank a lot, ate a lot, slept not enough, sourced some black eye peas for new year’s, left work early to watch Man U’s pummeling of Wigan, and then could not believe that shitty, shitty, shitty, awful, shitty showing against Leeds. Woke up early for that one. Jesus. Why not? Anyway!...
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How long has it been since I’ve posted a picture of my adorable dog? Over a week. Well, let’s take care of that right now, shall we? Much better. It’s Abby caught in her posture of profound unamusement. It’s like, if she could hold a knife, she’d cut me, and then piss in the wound....
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Kyra’d always wanted to go to Iceland, but, goddamn, it was expensive. And then the country’s economy curled up and died, so: off we went in December, 2008 for a long weekend. Brennivin! Whale steak! Brennivin! Reindeer soup! Gull beer! Brennivin! Formidable winter wear at 66 North! Loved it so much we went again...
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Are you sad? Click on this. It’ll cheer you up, for sure.
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Just back from a Thanksgiving/Christmas mashup with the family in Omaha. It’s cold there, and Kyra and I ate much steak. Also, it snowed, as vaguely testified to by the photo. It’s true that a dinner on Saturday with some old friends was my introduction to frog legs. They’re strange but tasty, as are most...
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You’re probably familiar with the Google autocomplete feature. You start typing in your search, and then Google suggests phrases, presumably based on previous searches, of what you might be thinking. It’s rarely helpful and often funny or just fucking weird. It’s been written about in a few places–The Millions wrote about it yesterday, and...
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