Posted in Asides on January 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s too cold outside.
I just did a google image search on “too cold” and this is what I found:
Will you look at that thing? It’s completely covered in ice!
That boat’s not going anywhere. What’s up.
You guys, for real. This is ridiculous. I think in Grand Marais today, with the windchill, it’s going to be negative 57 degrees. NEGATIVE [...]
Posted in Asides on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday night, myself and four other individuals played a rousing game of “Lava Monster,” though the game might more accurately be named the “Don’t Touch the Carpet Because It’s Made of Lava, Which Will Kill You” game.
Grown adults jumping from couches to chairs, creatively shimmying about in an attempt to avoid contact with what we [...]
Posted in Asides on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If you know me, you know that one of my favorite things in the world is a good old fashioned heat wave. The sun, ladies and gentleman, is nature’s very own joy factory.
I’ve always said so. And so have my cats. Not verbally. I’m not crazy. Cat’s don’t talk. No, they said it via long sprawls [...]
Posted in Asides on January 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Still post-holiday depressed. Can’t lift my spirits enough even to participate in my favorite and not-at-all-burdensom activity: blogging.
Until things return to normal, here’s an otter to fawn over:
Posted in Asides on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Every year after Martin Luther King Jr. day, I get terribly depressed. Cripplingly depressed.
You see, every year the eager anticipation of MLK day helps me to find joy in every majestic snowfall preceding it, and glee in every MLK day hymn. Is it not true that everything pre-MLK is magic? However, everything post-MLK is like sifting [...]
