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Category: In Which We Set Ourselves Up for Mockery

  • This is where a review of Choir!Choir!Choir! should be

    But it is not. I just couldn’t do it. I love the group, I’m sure all the people who were there loved it, but the venue was just too sketchy. I was wavering until we were headed home from the opera and took a back road into a very sketchy area and come to find…

  • My brief time as a live figure drawing model

    A Facebook Cracked article made me remember how, in the 1940s, my father swam in the nude in his gym class at Normandy High. That was a thing public schools did, back in the day. Thankfully, girls didn’t have to do that, and they phased that out for boys before I got to high school.…

  • What do you want out of sex

    I just began reading “Come Together,” by the same woman who wrote “Come As You Are,” and it asks an interesting question, which is: why do you want to have sex with others? What motivates you? She promptly knocks down the obvious answer (“Feels good”) because you could also feel good by yourself. So I…

  • House closing

    Well it has been two years and one month, but probate finally closed on my brother’s house, the buyer found a lender he liked, and I stayed in Saint Louis and a mobile notary came to my house and witnessed all my signatures. (She absolutely lives in the vicinity: we talked about the golf carts…

  • Hardest thing I have ever done

    During the last sixteen years, if you had asked me “what is the hardest thing you have ever gone through,” I would have said, “Mom’s hospice.” That changed this year. Now I would say, “Gary’s rash.” And I know that sounds ridiculous, but here’s the difference: Mom didn’t lie to herself. She believed her doctors.…

  • Apollo 13 Genealogy Part 2

    Okay, there’s a second runner up for Jerry at NASA. This guy. And, because I have overthought myself into face blindness, here’s someone who may be the same guy with glasses. Or not. (The eyebrow in the high school photo is even more convincing for this guy.) Of course, this guy(s?) had to be disqualified…

  • Apollo 13 documentary on Netflix (with a Bonus Feature just for me, perhaps)

    Apollo 13 documentary on Netflix (with a Bonus Feature just for me, perhaps)

    There is a new Apollo 13 documentary out on Netflix. Very, very exciting. Worth a look. I have spoken before about how tiring it is to watch space documentaries because I keep looking for Jerry. That’s made even more difficult because I don’t quite know what he looks like. I don’t have a lot of…

  • Three Special Words, Six Different Ways

    Counting weak-ass variations such as, “I think I’m falling in love with you,” I have heard an initial “I love you” six times. One was an Obvious Lie. I would call it an attempt to get into my pants, but really this man simply wanted to get into “pants.” My own personal pants had no…

  • Conversations

    One way I’ve kept sane over Covid is by revisiting pleasant conversations from my past. I have a good auditory memory, and at the end of the day, if I’ve had a memorable conversation, I replay it in my head until it’s been stored for later use. Then, on a day I need to feel…

  • Pivot Point?

    So I was still investigating if all this sex compulsion might have a psychological basis. I wanted to pinpoint when (and possibly why) my sex drive shot up so suddenly. It was definitely between the neurologist visit on April 13 and the urologist visit on June 15. What happened during those two months? Luckily I…