Month: December 2015

  • Old and New Christmas Traditions

    Old Tradition: Ornaments This year’s ornaments: An alpaca and a dead armadillo. The alpaca, of course, because of the Branson Alpaca Spitting Incident, and the armadillo because the armadillos continue their inexorable march to our backyard. They aren’t quite here yet, but we saw a dead armadillo three miles away. I realize now that I…

  • A Christmas Tradition: Bowling

    As you know, bowling means a little something different to me than to others. For years, bowling has been my euphimism for menstruation. See here for the backstory of how old-school education videos promoted that idea. Imagine my surprise when earlier this year John Oliver showed an educational video that expanded on that notion. If…

  • Fallow

    Part I: I Am Boring My creativity is in its fallow phase. I haven’t been to this blog for almost two weeks. Nothing has struck me as funny except for one remark my mother-in-law made at Thanksgiving. She hasn’t been well, so we all pitched in and she got to rest. She was watching Gary…