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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Are the good guys winning a few at last?

So I read where a restaurant near Pittsburgh is finally implementing a policy I’d like to see everywhere: as of Friday, no children under six will be welcome there. Last month, it was the Alamo Drafthouse enforcing its unwavering ban on texting in the theater that got me up and cheering from clear... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 11, 2011

I'll never be your pizza burning...

I don’t know what the psychological term for it is, but we all do it. It’s that condition where you start singing a song everyone knows in theory but you hopelessly botch the lyrics because you’ve heard them in your head that way for so long. The classic illustration is that scene in the movie... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Shameless Plug of the Day

My new e-book, "Growing Up Whitebread" is now up and running on Amazon. UYou can download it to your Kindle for the low, low price of 8.99 USD. There will be more coming up -- it's going to be a series. What a bahgan, right! Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

The Charging T-Rex of Ugly Truths...

You think you’re on top of your game. Then out of the blue comes that stray freight train, that looming bomb, that guided missile that annihilates all those illusions. Okay, okay, so maybe I’m being dramatic, but hey, a rude awakening can be a right traumatic experience. As a guy in lower middle... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Remember the Alamo!

Free at last; free at last; someone kicked an obnoxious bonehead out on her, ah, ear. If you haven’t read about the Alamo Drafhouse Theater and it’s hardline stance against texting or talking on a cell phone, then you need to. It’s a wonderful, heartwarming tale for our times – and I hope the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 3, 2011

Oh doctor; it hurts when I do this...

Hello, my name is Strat and I’m a hypochondriac. I can’t help it; if there’s some dread disease out there, I’ve probably had it. At least, I’ve stayed up nights convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that I had it. Never mind that I refuse to see the doctor about it. I mean, why should I? She’s only... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 30, 2011

Memorial Day Reflections: Reprise

This is something I've posted on past Memorial Days, but hey, thank you can never be said enough... I have a picture – probably my favorite photo of my parents -- that sits on my desk in my office at home. It was taken probably in 1960 or so, the evening of the West Point Founder’s Day ball, and in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Back to the real world...

Well, we made it back. My Beloved and I and our two four-legged children just got back from several days in the North Carolina mountains, right in the heart of the Yadkin Valley wine country, and within easy striking distance of everything from the Blue Ridge Parkway to the town of Mayberry – or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

What a long strange trip: Part Tres

Ah, holiday travel. During this, our Easter weekend, it seemed I heard a lot about things like hope and glory, the renewal of life and the triumph of good over evil. Or something like that. Mostly what I got out of it was a mild euphoria associated with carbon monoxide poisoning from sitting in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Well, surprise, surprise...

My cousin recently found out he is going to be a father for the first time. When he told his family about the upcoming blessed event, three of his five siblings asked him if this was planned. He is three weeks older than I am. I will be 47 in August. Nonetheless, I say, congratulations, Doc! You... Sign in to see full entry.

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Flotsam, jetsam, tangled threads and ADD moments. Stupid jokes and esoteric observations. An occasional deep thought, even though I try like hell to weed those out as often as possible. This is just a comfortable place to come get an occasional chuckle or two. And yeah, I left for awhile -- most of us do at one point or another -- and now I am back. I feel no obligation to explain; suffice it to say, "There's no place like home."

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